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TELUS Gives Where We Live

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Thank you to TELUS for their generous $5,000 donation! Funds were raised through their Nanaimo new customer campaign for the greatest needs at NRGH. To date, TELUS has donated over $300,000 to help provide better healthcare for our community!

RCL Mount Benson Supports ICU

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Thank you to Royal Canadian Legion Mt Benson Branch 256 for their generous $5,000 for the new ICU at NRGH. The funds were raised through their annual Poppy campaign. We are grateful to have their ongoing commitment to healthcare in our community. To date, Branch 256 has donated over $130,000!

Photo: Janice Perino, CEO, Hospital Foundation with Joanne Walton-Hatch, President, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 256

Quilts Provide Comfort

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Thank you to the Jonanco Hobby Workshop members who donated 9 beautiful handmade quilts to provide comfort and warmth for patients. The members make quilts for several NRGH departments including Palliative Care and the NICU, as well as VI SCAN.

Nanoose Lions Support ICU

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Thank you to the Nanoose Bay Lions Club for their generous $1,000 donation! The funds will go towards the new ICU at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. We are very grateful to the service clubs who support better healthcare for our community. You make a difference each and every day!
Photo: Phil Wilson, President and Judith Lapadat, Treasurer with Janice Perrino, CEO, Hospital Foundation

Generous Gift for Surgical Suite

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Thank you to Western Coast Insurance and Western Communities Foundation for their $5,000 donation! As part of the Western Communities Foundation programming, employees at their branches raise funds for charities in their community. We are delighted and grateful that the Hospital Foundation was chosen to be the recipient of this very generous gift. The funds will support the new surgical suite for the Endoscopy Department at NRGH.
Photo: Jen Reinhard, Branch Manager, Aulds Road (on left) and Joanna Goldsbury, Branch Manager, Port Place (on right) are joined by RN’s Euni Jo, Alison Lemon, Kim Racette and Liz Manson

Royal Canadian Legion #10 Continues Support

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Thank you to Royal Canadian Legion Branch #10 Nanaimo for their generous $5,000 donation! The funds were raised through their annual poppy campaign and will support the new ICU at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. To date, they have donated close to $25,000 for healthcare in our community!
photo: Janice Perrino, CEO, Hospital Foundation with Laurette Jardine, Gaming and Distribution Chair, and Len Handley, Poppy Chairman

Woodgrove Donates Gift Cards

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Thank you to Woodgrove Centre for their generous donation of $5,000 worth of gift cards! The gift cards will be used to raise funds for medical equipment and patient comfort items.

“We have a commitment to investing in our community by supporting local initiatives, specifically those that focus on education and well-being of young people, health and safety, the environment, and social welfare. The Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation covers many of those highlighted areas. Everyone in our community is affected by their work in some way, whether it’s from personal need at NRGH or seeing a friend or family member receive medical care. They’re working hard to raise the necessary funds to ensure that our community has access to proper care we all need.” Heather Fisk, Marketing Manager, Woodgrove Centre

Photo: Heather Fisk, Woodgrove (centre) with Janice Krall (left) and Rebecca Taylor, Hospital Foundation

Ladies’ Auxiliary Makes Final Gift

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Thank you to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 257 Lantzville Ladies’ Auxiliary for their donation of $580 for the new surgical suite for the Endoscopy Department at NRGH. The Ladies Auxiliary recently closed after 47 years in service to the Canadian Legion, veterans and our community. They have been a faithful contributor to the Hospital Foundation with total giving reaching over $34,000! We greatly appreciate and thank each and every member for their time, effort and generosity they have given over the years in support of better healthcare for our community.

Employees Continue Successful Fundraiser

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Thank you Vancouver Island Mack and Island Aggregates for their generous $3,820 donation! Staff raised $1,910 through their annual Christmas staff party and other activities and the company matched the funds raised. To date, they have donated over $13,000!

Part of the funds raised are through a staff draw. For a number of years, Island Aggregates employee Raymond Williams has made beautiful handmade items in wood for the draw.

“I enjoy creating with wood, so I am happy to make items that can be raffled at the company Christmas party. I made a project for one of my first Christmas parties with Vancouver Island Mack and Island Aggregates, and it was very well received. The company donated the money raised, and then some, to the Nanaimo Hospital [towards the children wards].

People began asking what I was making for next year, so I continued the tradition. I do not care for TV. I mill my own wood, and I enjoy working in my shop. I have made cedar chests, toy boxes, chairs, deacon benches, and park benches. The park bench proved extremely popular this year, we over exceeded in ticket sales which Richard Mayer and family matched. I do not know what I will make for this year’s party, but I will think of something, and it will raise even more money for a great cause. ” Raymond is in the below photo, second from the right