On Thursday June 2, 2005, a Director of the Florence Nightingale Home Foundation and members of the Order of the Eastern Star met in Thunder Bay to make a presentation of patient care equipment to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre. Miss Betty Jo Corbett, Director of the Foundation, on behalf of the other five Directors and members, presented a cheque for $4000 to the TBRHS Foundation for the purchase of two treatment recliner/mobile chairs in the Pacemaker clinic.

The above chairs are used for patient comfort. When patients come into the pacemaker clinic to have their pacemakers analysed, they are only in for a short period of time. Instead of lying on a stretcher, patients sit in the chairs which are easier to get on and off of. While sitting, a magnet is placed over their pacemaker. The analyser interprets what is occurring with the pacemaker, how the pacemaker is functioning and how long the battery will last.

From 1928 to 1975, the Florence Nightingale Home Board operated a home in Agincourt, first for orphans and then in later years for the elderly. In 1975, the home was sold because it was no longer financially reasonable to carry on its operation. The interest derived from the capital Fund, as a result of the sale, is used to provide donations of either patient care or clinical use equipment to hospitals throughout the Province. During the current fiscal year of the Nightingale Home Foundation, seven hospitals and the Red Cross will receive a total of approximately $30,000 in donations.

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