$3 MILLION GIFT TO HOSPITAL LOCAL 'ANGEL' TO HELP FUND CARDIAC LAB.Byline: Sue Doyle Staff Writer A Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, woman's $3 million donation will make what was once a dream a reality for Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital. Roberta G. Veloz's gift will help fund a cardiac-catheterization laboratory to help people who come to the hospital because of heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems. Procedures in the lab will allow doctors to see heart chambers, valves and arteries that can get clogged. Physicians can treat patients with angioplasty angioplasty (ăn`jēōplăs'tē), any surgical repair of a blood vessel, especially balloon angioplasty or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, a treatment of coronary artery disease. , using a catheter-guided balloon to open narrow arteries. About 250 people come to the emergency room each year with heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems. They are transferred to other medical centers because the hospital doesn't have a place to treat them. Cardiologist Cardiologist Doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating heart diseases. Mentioned in: Electrophysiology Study of the Heart, Lithotripsy cardiologist a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. Kenneth Tam said getting patients to other facilities can be difficult, since many hospitals in the region are busy and full. Because of that, he never knows how long it will take to transfer a patient. ``Having a cath lab A catheterization laboratory or cath lab is an examination room in a hospital or clinic with diagnostic imaging equipment to support the catheterization procedure. A catheter is inserted into a large artery, and various wires and devices can be inserted through the body via here will eliminate that problem,'' Tam said. He and others toasted Veloz on Wednesday when her donation was announced in the hospital's lobby. The Roberta G. Veloz Cardiac Cath Lab, a 2,500-square-foot facility, is expected to open in 2007. Veloz, who has served on the hospital foundation's board for years, said she and others are striving to keep the hospital a trauma center trauma center n. A medical facility that is designated to treat severe physical trauma as a result of the specialized training of its staff and the availability of appropriate diagnostic and treatment tools. and a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. operation, free of for-profit corporate ownership. She promised herself that if she sold her business for a profit she would help the hospital. Her business - Aquafine Corporation, making ultraviolet An invisible band of radiation at the upper end of the visible light spectrum. With wavelengths from 10 to 400 nm, ultraviolet starts at the end of visible light and ends at the beginning of X-rays. The primary source of ultraviolet light is the sun. equipment for commerce and industry - was based in Santa Clarita. ``I was fortunate enough to sell my corporation this year for a profit,'' she told the smiling audience. Sue Doyle, (661) 257-5254 sue.doyle(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital ``angel'' Roberta G. Veloz speaks of her desire to help while the hospital chief executive, Roger Seaver, waits to give her an angel statuette. David Crane/Staff Photographer |
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