Local Doctor Curtis Krahn says that the Bethesda Foundation has provided the City of Steinbach with many important healthcare facilities. He says "I was driving by the new construction site for the emergancy department. That is going to be fantastic. And it will make a huge difference. I think a lot of people get frustrated, they have come to the ER and there are huge lines and they see the staff kind of standing around. The problem has always been there hasn't been enough rooms. In the old ER, that served us since 1987, we had 4 rooms with room for 5 people. You could really only have 5 people at a time other then that it was hallway medicine. So now even in our transitional emergancy department we have 8 rooms and we have room for 12 people, and we have already seen that the waiting times have gone down significantly. So we're looking forward to the brand new ER, newer, bigger, brighter. Its better already however. Again that is a project that had to be spearheaded by somebody locally and its The Bethesda Foundation that these things fall to".
He adds that besides the new ER the foundation also brought the cancer care unit to the hospital. He says "Cancer is a battle that you fight one person at a time, one day at a time. Its meant a lot to a lot of people to have a facility where you can do that battle and its a really good place to be able to carry on this fight. We could not have built it without The Bethesda Foundation. Its a marvolous thing, its the sort of thing that when people give they are giving locally, but they are also giving to a much wider global cause when they are doing this".
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