Mar. 7, 2011 (Canada NewsWire Group) --
OTTAWA, March 7 /CNW/ - On Thursday March 10, The Ottawa Hospital will announce the results of the TELUS Go Pink campaign and provide a live demonstration of their state-of-the-art digital mammography machines.
Reporters and photographers are invited for the official announcement
and onsite demonstration
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When: |
Thursday, March 10 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
| What: | Join us in a rare opportunity to watch a digital mammography machine in action on a phantom breast to see how this equipment delivers more accurate results and how easily information can be shared with patients and healthcare providers. |
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Where: |
Maurice Grimes Lodge, 5th floor Women's Breast Health Centre The Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus 200 Melrose Ave. Please park in lot P4 and meet in the ground floor lobby. Parking vouchers provided. |
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Who: |
Guy Morency, Director of Diagnostic Imaging, The Ottawa Hospital Heather McLean, Vice President, Annual Giving Programs, The Ottawa Hospital Foundation Shannon Gorman, National Director, TELUS Community Affairs |
The Ottawa Hospital is a multi-campus, academic health sciences centre, serving 1.2 million residents of Ottawa and Eastern Ontario, both in English and French. It provides care for more patients than any other hospital in Canada, and boasts specialty centres in cancer, heart, kidney and vision care, as well as rehabilitation services. For more information, visit The Ottawa Hospital Web site at www.ottawahospital.on.ca.
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation's mission is to inspire and enable people to support the highest quality health care at The Ottawa Hospital and lifesaving research at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. For more information, visit The Ottawa Hospital Foundation Web site at www.ohfoundation.ca.
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications
company in Canada, with $9.8 billion of annual revenue and 12.3 million
customer connections including 7 million wireless subscribers, 3.7
million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million Internet
subscribers and more than 300,000 TELUS TV customers. Led since 2000 by
President and CEO, Darren Entwistle, TELUS provides a wide range of
communications products and services including data, Internet protocol
(IP), voice, entertainment and video.
In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed $211 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered 3.7 million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Nine TELUS Community Boards across Canada lead TELUS' local philanthropic initiatives. TELUS was honoured to be named the most outstanding philanthropic corporation globally for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, becoming the first Canadian company to receive this prestigious international recognition.
| For media inquiries, please contact: |
| Tracey Tong Media Relations and Marketing Officer The Ottawa Hospital Foundation Office: (613) 798-5555 ext. 19816 Cell: (613) 324-4466 trtong@toh.on.ca |
| Megan Fielding TELUS Media Relations (416) 894-0817 Megan.Fielding@telus.com |
