Royal Inland Hospital recipient of a $15M donation

The Royal Inland Hospital is the recipient of the largest-ever donation in the Interior Health region, as $15 million has been gifted by the Phil and Jennie Gaglardi Foundation.

The gift will help modernize RIH and finalize the completion of the Phil & Jennie Gaglardi Tower and any existing site renovations.

Phase I of the redevelopment project at the hospital encompasses the Phil & Jennie Gaglardi Tower: including a new main hospital entrance and operating rooms, mental health and substance use inpatient unit, a rooftop helipad and a new Maternal & Child Services ward with expanded Labour & Delivery Post-Partum Care and NICU Unit.

Phase II of the project at RIH will include the renovation and expansion of the existing emergency department, a new post-anesthetic recovery unit and a new pediatric unit.

“With the development of the new Patient Care Tower, this gift will help facilitate RIH’s capacity to keep pace with the complex needs of Kamloops’ growing and aging population and the demand for specialized, interdisciplinary care,” said RIH Foundation CEO, Heidi Coleman.

“As the only tertiary referral hospital in our area, the new Patient Care Tower and Phase II Emergency and Pediatric Department site renovations at RIH will thoroughly and dramatically transform patient-centered care within our community. In recognition of the Gaglardi family’s generous contribution, the Patient Care Tower itself, will be named the Phil & Jennie Gaglardi Tower,”

Phil and Jennie were passionate about providing care for older people in the hospital, and they regularary ministered and visited patients before forming a non-profit society to help seniors in Kamloops access affordable housing.

This donation will help to honour and remember the legacy that the Gaglardi's made within the community.

“I was overwhelmed by the generosity of the Gaglardi family and impressed by their desire to pay tribute to their parents and grandparents,” said Jim Reynolds, Campaign Cabinet Chair “The impact of the Gaglardi family to the community is going to be felt for decades to come.”