Brenda Rositano worked for the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation beginning in 2000 until she passed away in 2019. Today, four generations of Brenda’s family came to make a donation to the hospital in her memory. Her brother is visiting from Australia, and came in to enjoy a coffee at the beautiful Code Brew at…
The Nanaimo Lions Club has generously donated $20,000 to the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation in support of our new Intensive Care Unit (ICU)! They have been diligently fundraising for the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital for a year, primarily through bottle donations. The club has been supporting the Nanaimo & Regional General Hospital since 1991,…
Thank you to Cub Scouts Roman, Breanne and Madalyn for fundraising and donating 60 beautiful poinsettias with personalized notes of gratitude to NRGH for our staff & patients to enjoy over the holidays. This community project was part of earning their Seeonee award with Scouts Canada. Your thoughtfulness is appreciated more than words by so…
The Nanoose Bay Lions Club donated $1,000 for the Light the Trees campaign for the Essential Needs of the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. This club has been donating for the past 6 years and have given a total of $5,000 to the Hospital Foundation. Our thanks to all of the members for their support. Photo:…
Thank you to Phoebe Hamilton and Diane Wade for your on going quilt donations to our hospital. Your beautiful handmade quilts continue to touch so many!
Thank you to Mark Koch of Remax of Nanaimo for continuing to support healthcare in our community with your 10th Annual Pumpkin Palooza. This year winners donated their $500 towards the essential needs at NRGH. Photo: Janice Krall, CDO Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation and Mark Koch, Remax of Nanaimo
Thank you Wenner Electric for sponsoring our 6th Annual Light the Trees. Your gift of lighting up our Hospital over the holidays brings much joy and comfort to the staff and patients. Throughout December, community donations help to light up the trees and will support essential projects and needs at NRGH! Photo: Caleb McCaw, Jack…
Our thanks to the residents at Lakeside Gardens for their work to raise $1,835 for the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. Photo: Janice Perrino, CEO Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation and Daniela Cousin, Community Relations Manager at Lakeside Gardens
Thank you to the team at Fun at VIU for organizing the Teddy Bear Toss and 50/50 for the Hospital Foundation at the VIU Mariners hockey game! It was a great game, over $300 was raised and of course tons of stuffies were tossed for our littlest patience at NRGH!
Little Florence is another year older, we can’t believe it and it looks like she can’t either! Her annual birthday fundraiser is becoming such a special tradition we look forward to celebrating. This year with the help of her friends, family and the community she raised over $500 for the NICU at NRGH!
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.
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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.
