April 25, 2012, London, ON – A generous donation of $500,000 from the Estate of Mrs. Dorothy Palmer is helping thousands of children and their caregivers at Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre. The gift is also honouring the memory of an Aylmer couple who cared deeply for children and for their community.
The $500,000 gift will be used to support simulation training for health care professionals and to purchase specialized equipment and supplies. A number of hospital departments will benefit from the purchases including the Paediatric Medical Day Unit; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Child and Adolescent Mental Health and the Art Therapy Program.
The $500,000 gift will be used to support simulation training for health care professionals and to purchase specialized equipment and supplies. A number of hospital departments will benefit from the purchases including the Paediatric Medical Day Unit; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Child and Adolescent Mental Health and the Art Therapy Program.
“John and Dorothy Palmer would have been pleased to know that the young, from premature newborns to teenagers, would derive benefit from the additional equipment and new initiatives to be supported by their legacy,” says Andrew Gunn, Trustee of the Estate of Dorothy Fay Palmer.
The Palmers lived all their fifty-five years of marriage in Aylmer, Ontario. Shortly before she passed away in June 2010, Mrs. Palmer chose to honour her late husband, a dedicated Shriner, with a $300,000 donation to Children’s. Her donation helped build the new Children’s Hospital, and create a special mural in honour of the Shriners’ generous support of Children’s through the years.
“We honour the memory of John and Dorothy Palmer for Raising Hope,” says Debbie Comuzzi, President and CEO of Children’s Health Foundation. “The impact of the Palmer’s generosity will be broad reaching, and it will affect the lives of so many children in the southwestern Ontario region – including those from their home community of Aylmer.”
To learn more about Children’s Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre and Children’s Health Foundation visit, http://www.childhealth.ca
The Palmers lived all their fifty-five years of marriage in Aylmer, Ontario. Shortly before she passed away in June 2010, Mrs. Palmer chose to honour her late husband, a dedicated Shriner, with a $300,000 donation to Children’s. Her donation helped build the new Children’s Hospital, and create a special mural in honour of the Shriners’ generous support of Children’s through the years.
“We honour the memory of John and Dorothy Palmer for Raising Hope,” says Debbie Comuzzi, President and CEO of Children’s Health Foundation. “The impact of the Palmer’s generosity will be broad reaching, and it will affect the lives of so many children in the southwestern Ontario region – including those from their home community of Aylmer.”
To learn more about Children’s Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre and Children’s Health Foundation visit, http://www.childhealth.ca
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