APPS Transport Group pledges $25,000 to
William Osler Health Centre Foundation
Brampton - Brampton-based trucking firm APPS Transport Group recently announced today a $25,000 pledge to William Osler Health Centre Foundation.
APPS is building on their commitment to positively impact those whose lives they touch.The company has a long history of community involvement and provides in-kind services to several community-based organizations. According to APPS President, Rob McDonald, "Supporting Brampton Civic Hospital makes sense from a local standpoint and certainly illustrates the heart of the APPS team."
William Osler Health Centre Foundation has been the beneficiary of the generosity of the APPS Transport Group in recent years. Included in that is the corporation's support of the annual "Kick Cancer" 24-hour soccer game since it's inception in 2006. Apps pledge to support Brampton Civic Hospital's Here for you… caring for you Community Campaign will be publicly recognized later this year with a plaque on a treatment room within the emergency department at Brampton Civic Hospital.
Other efforts by the APPS team to improve the health of our community include adding smog-free trucks to their fleet and employing an on-site personal trainer for their staff.
Rob McDonald, President, and Brent Byers, Vice President (far left), present their $25,000 donation from Apps Transport Group to William Osler Health Centre Foundation. Dr. Mohammad, Chief of Emergency Medicine is on hand to receive the cheque together with Foundation President & CEO, Anne Randell (right) in the patient treatment room within Emergency Services that will be named in recognition of Apps Transport.
William Osler Health Centre has approximately 730 beds and a health care team of over 4,000 staff, 700 physicians and 900 volunteers. As a regional referral centre, Osler provides programs and services to nearly one million area residents. Our faculties offer acute and ancillary health care in the growing and diverse communities of Etobicoke and Brampton, Ontario, Canada. William Osler Health Centre is growing with the opening of the newest facility – the 1.3 million square foot Brampton Civic Hospital on October 28, 2007. Major renovations to the Etobicoke General Hospital and redevelopment of the Peel Memorial Hospital are also planned.