Doughnation Day
Doughnation Day is Saturday, March 27! Customers can purchase a 6-pack of Hot Cross Buns at Cobs Bakery on Metral Drive and they will donate $2 to the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation.
Doughnation Day is Saturday, March 27! Customers can purchase a 6-pack of Hot Cross Buns at Cobs Bakery on Metral Drive and they will donate $2 to the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation.
The Women of the Moose – Nanaimo Chapter #197 have been supporting the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation for over 20 years and have given $34,700! Their recent gift of $5,000 has been designated for equipment for our hospitals new ICU. Your continued support is so greatly appreciated!
In loving memory of their baby boy, the Sundquist family were compelled to make “Benny Boxes”, for others who experience the loss of a baby. These special memory boxes have been donated to the Perinatal/Maternity unit at NRGH in hopes to help guide and comfort grieving families. This beautiful demonstration of compassion has touched the…
Thank you to the Rotary Club of Lantzville for their recent gift of $7,500! This incredible donation is going towards the purchase of the equipment in our new ICU. To date they have donated over $65,000 to our hospital! Photo: Janice Perrino, CEO Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation and Mark Taylor and Doug Slowski, Rotary…
Cobs Doughnation Week is March 22 – 27 when $2 from every 6-Pack of Hot Cross Buns sold online at Cobs Bakery on Metral Drive will be donated to the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation.
Elsie Smith left a special legacy with her dear friend Liz Youssef. Before Elsie’s passing she gave Liz all her remaining yarn in order to continue handcrafting and donating her special baby hats for the maternity ward at NRGH. Thank you for this heartfelt gift.
Thank you Joanne for making these lovely heart on your sleeve bracelets in support of our front line health care providers! $10 from each bracelet sold will be donated to the Hospital Foundation. To purchase please contact Joanne directly at joannevanpel@gmail.com.
Thank you to Rina at SCENTSY and her customers for donating SCENTSY Buddies to NRGH again this year!
We can’t thank Dorothy Lupul and her group enough for their continued scrub cap donations. They recently dropped off another 128 scrub caps at NRGH. To date they have donated over 500 scrub caps to health care workers across the island!
Thank you to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 257 for 18 years of giving! Their recent gift of $5,000 was raised through their Poppy Fund and has been donated towards the purchase of the equipment in our new ICU.
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.