Representatives of the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation presented a Donor Appreciation Preview Event for the new HOpe Centre (the Greta and Robert H.N. Ho Centre for Psychiatry and Education) located on the Lions Gate Hospital campus, Sept. 20. More than 200 guests were in attendance, including Greta and Robert Ho who contributed $10 million to start off the campaign to build the urgently needed mental health facility on the North Shore. Along with other major contributors, 5,000 people in the community helped to make the vision a reality. Preview event guests, who were taken on tours of the facility, also included local politicians and health care leaders. In addition to the inpatient psychiatric floor, the centre will include mental health outpatient clinics, the Djavad Mowafaghian UBC Medical Education Centre, a clinical research trials unit, a resource centre and a permanent home for B.C. Ambulance. The HOpe Centre is expected to be operational in mid-November.
