Brenda was born in NRGH and was a very sick baby. In fact, when she was 6 days old, her family’s pastor came in to baptize Brenda as she wasn’t expected to live through the night. That next morning, her condition changed, and she has gone on to live a full life with two children…
The amazing team at Tim Horton’s was at it again! Last week they visited the Oceanside Health Centre to bring coffee and snacks to our front line workers. This year Tim Horton’s has donated more than 110,000 coffees and baked goods to essential workers across the country. What a great way to give back! Photo:…
Thank you to all our 28th Annual Golf for Life sponsors! The incredible support from our business community over the years has attributed to over $1 million for Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. This year all Golf for Life proceeds will support the purchase of the state of the art equipment required for our Hospital’s new…
Join us in thanking the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #49, Parksville for their incredible donation of $5,000 towards medical equipment in the new ICU at NRGH. Since 1990 they have donated more than $43,000 for our hospital! Photo: Susan Wilson, Poppy Chair & Ken Griffith, President, Royal Canadian Legion & Janice Perrino, CEO, Nanaimo &…
We appreciate the thoughtfulness and generosity of local quilter, Marjorie Godbout, with her continued quilt donations. Her most recent quilt donation will be going to our littlest of patients.
In 2019 young philanthropists Alexa and her brother Josh decided to do a lemonade stand and raised $150 for our hospital. This year Alexa and her friend Savannah did their lemonade stand for 2 days and raised $230 for the new ICU at NRGH. These are such inspiring young people!
Every February Quality Foods, in partnership with Dempster’s, donates 25 cents from participating products sold to the QF Community Health Endowment Fund. This year they were able to raise $10,000 through this promotion. Since 1995 their generous support has exceeded an incredible $370,000! We are so thankful for their on going support! Photo: Noel Hayward,…
Thank you Vicki Zoltay of Jonanco Arts Workshop for this special delivery! These beautiful quilts will be donated to the NICU, Palliative Care and to the Lunch bunch Prenatal Group at NRGH!
Thank you to the Parksville Lioness Club for your incredible gift of $20,000 towards the new ICU. We celebrate you in your 37th and final year as a service club. The Lioness Ladies have done so much to support our communities and Regional Hospital over the years and we are honoured to be part of…
The Nanaimo Lions Club #7981 have been donating for 22 years and have given almost $40,000 for the hospital. This recent gift of $1,500 is for the Palliative Care department at NRGH. Photo: Janice Perrino, CEO Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation and Leslie Smith, Nanaimo Lions Club
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.
