Golf for Life Week 3 Prize Winners
Congratulations to our week 3 Golf for Life Prize Winners!
Congratulations to our week 3 Golf for Life Prize Winners!
Congratulations to our week 2 Golf for Life Prize Winners!
Congratulations to our Golf for Life prize winners for week 1 and thank you to all the business leaders that donated such amazing prizes for our participants!
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Kenyon for receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award of Excellence in Rural Medicine. The award honors a rural physician who has dedicated his/her/their career to serving one or more rural communities and has significantly impacted and/or influenced rural health provincially, nationally and/or internationally. In addition to his outreach work in rural and…
Congratulations to our colleague Nancy Scott who will now be enjoying a well-deserved retirement! She was the first person people saw when they came into our office where she greeted everyone with the same warmth and welcoming smile. From assisting donors and keeping the office supplied and running, to helping at events and wherever an…
Congratulations to Joan Ryan on her retirement! Thirty years after first volunteering with Lifeline, Joan is leaving a legacy of hard work, dedication and success. Joan was instrumental in the growth of Lifeline and over the years she grew with it; going from Coordinator to Manager to Executive Director and, most recently as she neared…
Congratulations to Lynn Taniguchi on her retirement! Lynn first started working with the Hospital Foundation in November 1999 and was an important member of the team until her last day in the office. As the Development Assistant, so much of Lynn’s work was behind the scenes but it was integral to everything we do at…
Congratulations to Fairwinds Golf Club – Golf Shop for being awarded Regional Golf Shop of the Year for Vancouver Island! They received the recognition at the PGA of British Columbia’s annual awards ceremony. Fairwinds has been the host golf course of the Foundation’s annual Golf for Life Charity Classic and we are very grateful for their…
We were honoured to coordinate a delightful reunion for baby Lily, a #NICUpatient, & her mum Olivia, with Chelsea, one of the RN’s who helped care for her over a year ago. Thank you to Chelsea, Nancy (who was unavailable for the photos) and the rest of the #NICU team for taking such great care of…
Congratulations to the #Golf for Life Charity Classic winning team of David van Deventer of Nanaimo News Bulletin, Ron Young & Sjon Wynia of Harbourview Volkswagen & Dennis Campbell of Budget Brake & Muffler Auto Centres in #Nanaimo who played an impressive game in temperamental weather to secure the Tom Harris Memorial Trophy, presented to them by Tony Harris
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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.