Heart of the matter: How donor dollars transformed PRHC’s Cardiac Cath Lab

Heart of the matter: How donor dollars transformed PRHC’s Cardiac Cath Lab

Peterborough Regional Health Centre’s (PRHC) Cardiac Cath Lab has performed nearly 5,900 procedures since two newly upgraded suites opened in 2022, thanks to a $3.55 million investment fully funded by PRHC Foundation donors. The upgrades, completed between September 2021 and December 2022, were identified as a priority in PRHC’s $60 million fundraising campaign. From 2020 to 2023, donations poured in from individuals, businesses, and community g…

'Brigade': How Heart Refashioned Their Approach For The 1990s

Heart’s glossy, MTV-friendly glam-metal makeover led to chart-topping albums such as 1985’s Heart and 1987’s Bad Animals and sustained mainstream success, but as the next decade dawned, the image was wearing thin. Things needed to change when Heart made its next album, 1990’s Brigade. “We were just getting real tired of all of the artifice,” vocalist Ann Wilson confessed in a 2015 interview with Ultimate Classic Rock. “It was time to get back to…

Local man’s life saved by heart calcium scan

Hopkins County Health Care Foundation Ccommunity Engagement, FundraisingCoordinator hchc.foundation@christushealth.org On April 10, the Hopkins County Health Care Foundation will hold Man Bingo to raise funds for another year of providing free heart calcium scans for qualifying Hopkins County men. One of the Foundation Board of Directors members shared his own story of how this scan saved his life.