Be A Part Of Ontario Chapter's Annual Charity Golf Outing!
On May 28, the Ontario Chapter will hold their Third Annual Charity Golf Tournament, returning to the Copper Creek Golf Club, 11191 Hwy 27, Kleinburg, ON. This golf outing will benefit SickKids Hospital. Start time will be 7 AM. For information about how to be a part of this chapter event, contact Jennifer Chapman, CAFS, at jennchapman70@gmail.com
NAFA's chapters make their annual golf outings into the event members look forward to all year, and with an aim to helping out a worthy charity, Ontario's golf outing will be even better.
About SickKids - It began in the spring of 1875, when a group of Toronto women led by Elizabeth McMaster rented an 11-room house for $320 a year, set up six iron cots, and declared open a hospital "for the admission and treatment of all sick children." On April 3, Maggie, a scalding victim, became SickKids' very first patient. In that first year, 44 patients were admitted to the Hospital. Sixty-seven others were treated in outpatient clinics.
The demand for services was so great that the Hospital had to move to a larger building in 1876. But even the larger building and its 16 beds were too few. In 1891, under the leadership of John Ross Robertson, Publisher of the Evening Telegram and Chairman of the Hospital's Board of Trustees, SickKids moved to an impressive new four-story, 320-bed facility at the corner of Elizabeth and College Streets.
In January of 1993, SickKids opened its brand new patient-care wing, the Atrium, which was designed by Eberhard Zeidler of Zeidler Roberts Partnership. Believing that light is important to healing, Zeidler designed the building around a nine-story, glass-roofed atrium to let in as much natural light as possible. The $232-million (CAN) Hospital has been paid for by taxpayers and contributors to the Hospital's capital campaign, SickKids Foundation, and other donors and bequests.
Most patients now have their own room, with a washroom, storage, and a day bed so a parent can stay at night. With the addition of the new wing, SickKids now fills an entire city block. The Atrium houses exciting facilities to help provide enhanced care and improve the treatment and diagnosis of childhood disease. The Critical Care Unit, where children with life threatening illness and injury receive care, almost doubled in size to 36 beds. The Emergency Department has two trauma rooms and a six-bed observation room.
