Kimberley's Kootenay Savings Credit Union recently held a fundraising barbecue that raised $1328 for A Warm Embrace, a campaign that is working to bring a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to the East Kootenay Regional Hospital in Cranbrook.
Currently, families with newborns who are born premature or have health complications are airlifted to Kelowna, Kamloops or Vancouver to get the required level of care.
The event was sponsored by Kootenay Savings and Kootenay Insurance Services, which is a credit union brokerage partnered with Kootenay Savings. All the food for the barbecue was donated by the Kimberley Save-On-Foods.
So far, A Warm Embrace has only $150,000 left to raise towards their $1.8 million total fundraising target.
"We’re getting very excited to be close to having a NICU at home in the East Kootenay," an East Kootenay Foundation for Health spokesperson said in a release.
