L-R: Manon Therriault, CEO, RDRHF, Sandi Sebastian, Interim Senior Operating Officer, RDRHC, Al Sim, Board Director, RDRHF, Trevor Roberts, Operations Superintendent, Cenovus, Malina Adams, Advisor, Community & Indigenous Affairs, Sustainability & Stakeholder Engagement, Cenovus, Dave Appleby, Board Director, RDRHF, John Benson, Director of Donor Relations, RDRHF, Elsa Purvis, Area Manager, Medical Specialty Clinic, Kelly Longard, Director, Emergency, Cardiac Sciences, and Ambulatory Care, RDRHC. (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)

By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

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Cenovus makes $50,000 investment in operating room at Red Deer Regional Hospital

Jun 22, 2023 | 4:49 PM

For the first time, a corporation has purchased naming rights for an area within Red Deer Regional Hospital.

Cenovus Energy officials were on hand Thursday to make the formal presentation of a cheque for $50,000, which will help purchase much-needed technical equipment throughout the hospital’s operating room area.

In return, Cenovus Energy gets their name on the waiting area of the Medical Specialty Clinic, located in the hospital’s east wing.

Trevor Roberts, Operations Superintendent with Cenovus, says the money is not a gift, but an investment.

“At Cenovus, we act with purpose in all that we do. We believe in making positive impacts in the communities where we live and work, including here in Red Deer,” he said.

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“We know how important this hospital is, not only to tens of thousands of people who live in Red Deer, but hundreds of thousands of people living and working across central Alberta. It’s not an overstatement to say this place can be the difference between life and death. This is an investment in the hospital, the city and the province.”

Roberts, along with Manon Therriault, CEO, Red Deer Regional Health Foundation, would both like to see other corporations and businesses take up the opportunity to make similar investments to grow the hospital’s new naming rights strategy, in turn helping the hospital acquire life-saving equipment and upgrades.

Therriault says Cenovus wanted the funds to go towards the hospital’s most urgent need.

“We’ve been working on naming opportunities since 2018, but other hospital things such as COVID took precedent. So this is our first opportunity to truly recognize the significant donations which come to this hospital; it’s a way for us to say thank you in a long term way,” she says.

“Some of the biggest unmet needs of our community live in this hospital, and Cenovus’s $50,000 contribution will go a long way toward filling the gap of what is needed to provide the care our patients need and deserve.”

For naming inquiries, contact the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation.