Scheduled to start taking patients in 2026, the new acute care tower they’ve been building next door since 2021 is pretty much complete, at least from the outside. Jim Pattison, a famous-in-BC entrepreneur, donated something like $30 million to the hospital, which is a lot of money even in Canadian dollars. As a result, he gets his name prominently displayed on each long side of the tower, where it reads:
Jim Pattison Acute Care Tower
Except for some reason, the east side of the tower reads:
Jim Patti
And this amuses me because I’m just that kind of guy. I assume the rest of the letters will go up at some point, but in the meantime, I draw comfort from having Jim Patti looking down on my home from nine storeys up.
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