X-ray vision: The 2018 Ross Memorial Foundation Holiday Appeal needs you
This annual fundraiser is very important for the Hospital, as it raises between $175,000 and $200,000 for vital equipment.
It is perhaps fitting that in a year when many residents spoke up about the importance of having a full-service local hospital that the goal of this year’s Holiday Appeal is for the purchase of diagnostic equipment and to contribute towards the redevelopment of the diagnostic imaging department.
Just over 100 years ago — in 1917 — founding donor James Ross himself donated $2,550 so that the RMH could purchase an X-Ray machine — a machine that only larger hospitals in bigger towns and cities had access to at the time. It was pretty cutting edge stuff for such a small hospital.
Jump ahead 100 years, and our community, through the RMH Foundation, is carrying on that tradition started by James Ross.
