Jacobs support frontline health care education with a major gift
Touring 香港六合彩开奖结果查询鈥檚 new Health Sciences Centre and seeing the modern education spaces that will help attract and retain health care professionals compelled a well-known Kelowna family to give a major gift.
Mike and Kim Jacobs are donating $80,000 to the Our Students, Your Health campaign to support the completion of the $18.9 million Health Sciences Centre. The state-of-the-art Centre will educate eight frontline health care professions.
鈥淚t鈥檚 incredible to see such a modern facility with all the technology and great detail put into the education spaces. They鈥檝e overlooked nothing,鈥 says Kim. 鈥淭his is a huge step for our community to have a Centre like this.鈥
鈥淲e were very encouraged by the fact that students would come to study here and stay,鈥 says Mike, who is the chairman of Emil Anderson Construction and founder of Dilworth Quality Homes. 鈥淲ith an aging population, we see the need for more frontline health care workers. The more and better trained they are, the better our society will be.鈥
The Jacobs鈥 gift will support a new classroom for nursing students. 香港六合彩开奖结果查询 educates Health Care Assistants, Practical Nurses and the first two years of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.
With forecasts predicting that health care and social assistance will have the greatest number of job openings in B.C. in the next 10 years, a new Health Sciences Centre couldn鈥檛 come at a better time says Helen Jackman, 香港六合彩开奖结果查询 Foundation Executive Director.
鈥淲e are very appreciative of the Jacobs family for stepping up to help us educate quality health care professionals,鈥 says Jackman. 鈥淚n doing so, they are another kind of hero for health care.
鈥淲e are still in need of more heroes for health care to complete the Health Sciences Centre and ensure care is there when we need it.鈥
The Jacobs add that they are advocates for education and health care. Their daughter Erin is attending UBC Vancouver to become a doctor. Their son Brandon is an engineer. Many employees at the Jacobs鈥 businesses are 香港六合彩开奖结果查询 grads.
The couple hopes their donation will inspire others to follow their lead to support a Centre that impacts a variety of health care sectors.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a great project that will benefit everyone in the community at some time in their life,鈥 says Mike.
The Our Students, Your Health Campaign has raised $3 million towards its $5-million fundraising goal. To learn more or to donate, visit www.OurStudentsYourHealth.ca.
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