Groves Hospital Needs a New CT Scanner

Our current CT Scanner is now 15 years-old and is in urgent need of replacement. In 2023, over 6,000 patients at Groves received a CT Scan during their patient care journey. Our CT has been providing excellent diagnostic care for our community, since it was donor-funded in 2009, but has now reached end of life.

You were there when we needed you 15 years ago. We need your help again, today, to raise $2M for a new CT Scanner.

Can you help us reach our $2M Goal? Please consider a gift for this vital diagnostic upgrade to improve care, close to home.

Dr. Samir Patel, Lead Radiologist at GMCH shares the benefit of a new CT Scanner; "There have been many advancements and leaps in technology over the years, and a new CT scanner will bring these diagnostic advantages home for the patients of Groves. One of the biggest advances will be better quality/resolution images, but using a lower dose of radiation to the patient. The enhanced images will increase diagnostic precision; directly impacting Radiology physicians’ ability to quickly and accurately diagnose our patients. We will also see less downtime/servicing, as required by our current CT; leading to decreased wait times and reduced chance of patients requiring transfer to other hospitals for scans."

GMCH Chief of Staff, Dr. Matthew Westendorp, shares the importance of high-quality diagnostic tools for patient care; "The CT Scanner is such a critical diagnostic tool, that has been part of our standards of care for so many years. It was so appreciated by all of us [physicians & staff] when our community funded a CT Scanner locally. There is an expectation for quick and timely CT scans in so many more medical situations and the population has grown exponentially, so it is even more difficult to practice when it breaks regularly now, compared to 15 years ago."