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CTV Vancouver’s Annual Week-Long HOPE STARTS HERE Awareness Campaign in Support of BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre’s Newborn ICU Kicks Off May 8 - Bell Media

CTV Vancouver’s Annual Week-Long HOPE STARTS HERE Awareness Campaign in Support of BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre’s Newborn ICU Kicks Off May 8

– CTV Vancouver wraps the week with the free, annual BLOCK PARTY FOR BABIES event featuring live broadcasts from Surrey Honda on May 12 –

VANCOUVER (May 3, 2017) – CTV Vancouver is on a mission to keep the spotlight shining on BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre with HOPE STARTS HERE, the annual week-long campaign aimed at raising essential funds and awareness for the hospital’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NCIU). Beginning Monday, May 8 and continuing through the week, CTV Vancouver newscasts will feature stories, in-studio interviews, and editorial features showcasing the life-saving work happening each day at BC Women’s Hospital.

The campaign wraps-up on Friday, May 12 as CTV Vancouver hosts its annual BLOCK PARTY FOR BABIES from a new location this year, Surrey Honda (15291 Fraser Hwy). All are invited to this FREE, family-friendly event featuring a wide range of children’s activities, including face painting and bouncy castles, along with Freshslice Pizza, and a live performance by Dr. Strangelove. CTV NEWS AT FIVE and CTV NEWS AT SIX will be on-hand throughout the festivities, broadcasting live hits from the event.
Additional details are available at Vancouver.CTVNews.ca.

About the BC Women’s Newborn ICU When a baby is born too soon, too small, or too sick to survive without help, BC Women's Newborn ICU is there to deliver the highest level of life-saving care. BC Women's Newborn ICU is the referral hub for B.C.'s most critically ill infants and newborns in need of advanced care. An integral part of BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre, the 60-bed NICU is one of Canada's foremost specialized newborn critical care centres. It is staffed by a unique concentration of leading clinical specialists. Healthy women. Healthy babies. Healthy families. This is the driving spirit behind every program, every equipment purchase and every act of care at BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre. Your gift today could save a baby’s life. Help make a difference. Donate today at hopestartshere.ca. About CTV News CTV News is Canada’s most-watched news organization both locally and nationally, and has a network of national, international, and local news operations. CTV News operations include CTV NEWS CHANNEL, BNN – Business News Network, CP24, and information programming, including CTV NATIONAL NEWS WITH LISA LAFLAMME, CTV NATIONAL NEWS WITH SANDIE RINALDO, W5, POWER PLAY, and QUESTION PERIOD. Flagship news sites include CTVNews.ca, as well as CP24.com and BNN.ca, and are complemented by CTV News GO, CP24 GO, and BNN GO apps, and text-over-video product, ON THE GO, which provide a direct connection to Canada’s most trusted news anytime and anywhere.  With a perspective that is distinctly Canadian, CTV News brings Canadians the international and domestic news stories of the day and is the #1 news organization in Canada.

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