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The long-awaited children’s hospital in Saskatoon has received a million-dollar boost as construction moves closer to completion.

Ron and Shirley Carson have donated $1 million to the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation, the organization announced this week. Ron Carson, a native of Lampman in southeast Saskatchewan, founded Carson Energy Services Ltd. in 1974 and grew it into one of the province’s largest private companies.

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The couple, married since 1965, felt the donation “was a way to give back to our provincial community,” Ron Carson said.

“We are very pleased to contribute to this initiative that will bring great value to the families of Saskatchewan and we are happy to donate to such an important cause.”

The donation will be used to support a family space and kitchen near the pediatric intensive care and observation unit (PICU) in the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital.

The space “will give families visiting the PICU a quiet, comfortable and stress-free environment away from their child’s hospital room, which is essential to their emotional well-being and key to Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation’s commitment to family-centred care,” the organization said in the announcement.