{"id":3288,"date":"2026-04-15T17:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klhf.org\/wp\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:05:20","slug":"breath-of-spring-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klhf.org\/wp\/2026\/04\/15\/breath-of-spring-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Breath of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif;\">Give the Gift of Heart Health<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif;\">Timely access to heart testing can make a lifesaving difference for patients in our community. This year, donations to our annual Breath of Spring campaign will help fund the replacement and upgrade of the cardiac stress testing equipment at Kootenay Lake Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif;\">Cardiac stress testing helps detect coronary artery disease before it leads to a serious cardiac event. By monitoring how the heart performs during physical exertion, clinicians can identify warning signs and begin treatment sooner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif;\">The hospital\u2019s current treadmill and monitoring system <strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif; font-weight: normal;\">is more than ten years old and increasingly prone to breakdowns<\/span><\/strong><b>.<\/b> When equipment fails, patients who may have already waited months for testing face further delays. With long waitlists across the region, travelling elsewhere for care is often not an option.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif;\">Your support will help provide reliable equipment, reduce delays, and ensure cardiac patients in our community receive lifesaving cardiac care right here in Nelson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Palatino Linotype',serif;\">Any funds raised in excess of our goal will be directed to the purchase of other priority medical equipment for Kootenay Lake Hospital.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give the Gift of Heart Health Timely access to heart testing can make a lifesaving difference for patients in our community. This year, donations to our annual Breath of Spring campaign will help fund the replacement and upgrade of the cardiac stress testing equipment at Kootenay Lake Hospital. Cardiac stress testing helps detect coronary artery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klhf.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klhf.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klhf.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klhf.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klhf.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/klhf.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"https:\/\/klhf.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klhf.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klhf.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klhf.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}