Jim Pattison, the CEO of the Jim Pattison Group, has donated $75 million to the St. Paul’s Foundation for the building of the new St. Paul’s at the Jim Pattison Medical Centre.
According to the foundation, this was the largest donation by a private citizen to a single medical facility ever seen in Canada.
“Jim Pattison’s gift will help us realize an exceptionally rare opportunity to build a major medical and research centre from the ground up that will establish its place among the most highly regarded and recognized medical centres in North America,” Dick Vollet, St. Paul’s Foundation’s president and CEO.
The centre will occupy 18.4 acres in the False Creek Flats. It will include St. Paul’s Hospital, the provincial Heart Centre, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, outpatient clinics and the PHC Research Institute, among others.
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This is not the first gift Pattison has made to a medical institution, but it is the largest. Among his past philanthropy was a 2011 donation of $5 million
to the Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation for its outpatient care and surgery centre.References: biv.com
