We had so much fun with our Smile Cookie Car Dealership Champions Harbourview Volkswagen this past September that they decided to carry on supporting our Hospital throughout October! In addition to buying and sharing over 45 dozen Tim Hortons Smile Cookies, they hosted a donation drive event resulting in an incredible $5,000 for our Nanaimo…
Our heartfelt thanks to RBC Dominion Securities. Pictured here are Blake Simpson, Vice-President & Branch Director & David Lindblad, Investment Advisor, Financial Planner and NDHF Board Director presenting Janice Perrino, CEO, Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation with a cheque for $3,500. This donation will be used towards the purchase of all the medical equipment in…
Thank you to all of the sponsors and participants of the 28th Annual Golf for Life event. Together we raised over $76,000 for the new ICU at NRGH! This year our host sponsor and partners at Fairwinds Golf Club, generously matched over $12,000 in donations! Photo: Jan Krall, CDO Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation and…
This year ABC Recycling donated $2,344.44 to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital with proceeds from their public donation bin at their Duke Point location. Thank you to the ABC Recycling team and everyone in the community who donated their scrap metal!
This year in order to commemorate 106.9 The Wolf’s 20th Anniversary they collaborated with Longwood Brewery to create a special limited addition Platinum Blonde Ale. Together Longwood Brewery and the Longwood Brew Pub donated partial proceeds, totaling an incredible $2,000, of this special ale towards the new ICU at NRGH! Thank you to these amazing…
Thank you to everyone at Tim Hortons! With the help of our entire community, this years Smile Cookie week was a sweet success. Thanks to our community’s support, Nanaimo’s Tim Hortons restaurants raised a record breaking $27,500.00 for the new ICU at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. Photo: Jan Krall, Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation, Tim…
The Nanaimo Hospital Auxiliary is a dynamic group of nearly 250 men and women volunteers who have raised millions of dollars for the purchase of equipment and services at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (NRGH). They raise money through their operation of two retail stores – the Hospital Gift Shop and our Thrift Store at Northridge…
The Cottonwood Ladies Golf Club are such a special group that have been supporting healthcare in our community since 2005. On behalf of the group Shari Molchan presented us with a cheque for $1,920 for the new ICU at NRGH! To date they have donated close to $20,000 to our hospital. Your on going support…
Every year our local Ardene stores partner with the Starlight Foundation to collect donations at the tills for seriously ill children and their families. This year they donated a new play system for our hospital’s pediatrics department that we know will be enjoyed by our young patience for many years to come. Ardene has donated…
These amazing ladies have been quilting together for 30 years and have just donated 30 quilts to our hospital! These beautifully handmade quilts will make a difference for patients and long term care residence alike. This truly is a labour of love for these caring ladies. Photo: Peggie Sonnefeld, Alice Akins, Hope Jordan, Lynn Morrisey…
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.
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.
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.
