Paradise Island Foods
Thank you to the team at Paradise Island Foods for your $300 donation to our Paediatric Unit! This gift will support and help with comfort for our littlest of patients during their Hospital stay.
Thank you to the team at Paradise Island Foods for your $300 donation to our Paediatric Unit! This gift will support and help with comfort for our littlest of patients during their Hospital stay.
We would like to thank Donna Jansonius for her Christmas cookie fundraiser in support of the new ICU! She baked and beautifully decorated 200 cookies & raised over $600 for our new ICU!
From now until February 28th, with every participating Dempster’s and Weight Watchers product purchase at Quality Foods, 25¢ will go to the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
We would like to thank Phoebe Hamilton for her most recent quilt donation! These 10 beautifully made baby quilts will bring the little ones in our NICU great comfort.
Thank you to the entire team at the Vancouver Island Tribute Festival for donating $2,500 this year! To date this group has donated over $24,000 to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. Photo: Sherry Judson, Vancouver Island Tribute Festival, Janice Perrino, CEO Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation and Sharon Schiebein, Vancouver Island Tribute Festival
This year the Royal Canadian Legion – Mt. Arrowsmith Branch 49 donated $7,000 to the new ICU at NRGH! To date they have donated over $38,000 to our hospital!
We would like to thank Island Aggregates and Mack Vancouver Island for their annual donation! This year they auctioned off a bench made by one of their employees and matched the proceeds, raising a total of $1,520 for the new ICU at NRGH!
Thank you to Better Mousetrap Marketing for teaming up with Santa to do personalized videos this Christmas and fundraising $1,200 for the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation!
Thank you to the London Drugs Charity Foundation for their recent donation of $1,000 towards the new ICU at NRGH. To date they have donated over $52,000 to the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation.
To make a gift of securities in kind, please download this fillable form and instruct your broker to initiate the transfer on your behalf. We sell the shares immediately upon receipt, and send you a charitable tax receipt for the fair market value at the date of transfer.
Planning for the future is an important part of what we do, and planned gifts from our generous, visionary donors help ensure better healthcare for generations to come. Planned gifts we accept include Charitable Bequests through Wills, Charitable Remainder Trusts, Charitable Gift Annuities, Gifts of Stock and more. For more information about making a planned gift to the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation, please click the link below.
As a monthly giving donor, you will help build a future of healthcare excellence over time, benefiting the ones you care for most. Together, monthly donors enable long-term, sustainable planning to support the delivery of better healthcare in our community.
Making a donation in memory of a family, friend or other loved one is a wonderful way to honour their memory, while also making a gift that will keep on giving back to the community through better healthcare. Donations are also a great way to celebrate life’s important milestones such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, graduations, retirements and more.
Cancer Care
Our work continues to support local cancer care in Nanaimo, including specialized pathology equipment to examine tissue biopsies for suspected cases of cancer. We’re also helping to move forward the project around a regional cancer center, keeping patients closer to their support networks. This essential area of care is long overdue, and has affected so many families on the island.
Community and Family Health
This area gives focus to children’s health, family doctor recruitment support with the Division of Family Practice, occupational health, palliative care, senior’s care, and education as well as other support for our nurses. We have already had excellent success in this area, with the recruitment of new doctors, and more on the way. Several key partnerships are already in place, and we continue to pursue additional alliances to expand our circle of impact.
Critical Care
Critical Care includes all acute care – emergency, ICU and HAU, and surgery. In June 2023, the new ICU opened with all the required critical equipment funded by
community donors and has been operating at full capacity since then. We are excited to share that the HAU is on track for expected completion by summer 2025, ensuring that our community has access to the highest standard of care.
Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of our community, and a transformational gift from the Windsor Plywood Foundation, we have almost achieved our fundraising goal.
Heart and Stroke Care
This area of care includes a new cath lab and equipment, as well as several recent equipment purchases such as echocardiology machine & TEE probe, cardiac ultrasound, a cardiac stress test system, two wireless ECG machines, an echo stretcher, power chairs for our pacemaker clinic, and a Holter scanning system. Costs were also covered for additional staff training on advanced cardiac life support, and heart dysrhythmia.
Innovation
It is only through innovation that we can ensure we maintain the highest standards of care for our community. “We have always done it that way” is not an acceptable answer for our team. We know that to be a driving force in improving healthcare in Central and North Vancouver Island, we must constantly seek new and innovative ways to pursue our vision.
We continue to press for innovation in the areas of advocacy, laboratory services, medical imaging, medical professional education, and pharmacy, among others.
And once again, mutually beneficial partnerships grounded in the desire to improve healthcare outcomes are key to the Foundation having an impact well beyond our traditional resources.
Mental Health
We continue to seek out ways to improve and expand medical detox, VI scan (Vancouver Island Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect program), and youth wellness outreach. These essential areas are interwoven with other areas of care, and we seek ways to innovate and create greater impact.