Lions Gate Hospitals planned mental health facility will be getting a multi-million-dollar boost this week thanks to a gift from a North Vancouver charity.
The Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation has said it will be making the donation to the hospitals planned HOpe Centre, a new 150,000-square-foot treatment and education complex slated for the grounds near 13th Street and St. Andrews Avenue. The exact dollar amount will be announced at a press conference Tuesday morning.
The donation will bring the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation a step closer to its goal of raising $25 million for the $62-million facility. The provincial government has pledged to cover the balance.
As of May this year, the foundation had already brought in more than $16 million for the project, thanks in large part to a $10-million donation from West Vancouvers Greta and Robert H.N. Ho, for whom the centre is named. Other private donors have also made some substantial gifts, including TD Canada Trust, which announced a $250,000 pledge earlier this summer.
The HOpe centre will replace the hospitals 82-year-old Activation building, a dilapidated facility that patients have described as cramped and foul-smelling, with as many as 15 people sharing a single toilet.
Every room in the new building will have its own bathroom in addition to other improvements, according to planners.
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