MRI Campaign

In 2010, the Yukon Hospital Foundation – in partnership with you our donors and community partners – embarked on a three-year campaign to purchase a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine for our hospital.

In three short years, Whitehorse General Hospital will be the only Canadian facility north of 60 with an MRI.

At present, over 500 Yukon residents are sent outside the territory each year to southern urban centres for MRI scans and are waiting an average of six months for a non-critical MRI scan.

An MRI right here in our community can reduce this wait time to a matter of weeks and will provide significant benefits for staff and patients that include:

• Increased diagnostic capability.
• Among the shortest wait times for an MRI scan in Canada.
• Reduced stress on patients and their families associated with traveling outside the territory.
• Reduced travel costs for the Government of Yukon associated with patients traveling outside the territory.
• Increased opportunities for the recruitment and retention of medical staff, visiting specialists and other health care providers.