Thank you to Vancouver Island Tribute Festival for their $1,581 donation! They are presenting their fabulous event once again on May 9th in Parksville with proceeds supporting the Hospital Foundation. To date, they have donated over $21,000 to support better healthcare for our community! Visit their Facebook page for details on their upcoming event featuring exceptional performers.
Photo: Sharon Schienbein and Sherry Judson with Foundation CEO, Janice Perrino (in centre)
The staff at Trillium Lodge have done an amazing job of decorating for the holidays! Residents and staff alike will feel the spirit of Christmas with all the beautiful displays.
The Hospital provided some funding towards lights and decorations with the staff contributing some of their own as well. Thank you to all the staff for providing such a wonderful environment for the residents over Christmas and throughout the year!
Thank you to Newman’s Own Foundation for their generous $10,000 (USD) donation! To date, they have donated over $95,000 (CAD) to support healthcare in our community.
Their latest donation will help purchase vital medical equipment for the new surgical suite for the Endoscopy Department at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
Once complete, medical staff will be able to perform up to 35% more colonoscopies. This will greatly reduce wait times for this vital procedure for central Vancouver Island residents!
Thank you also to Quality Foods for nominating the Nanaimo Hospital Foundation to be a grant recipient again this year.
Photo: Mark Tilley, VP Int’l, Newman’s Own Foundation; Greg Scott, Board Chair, Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation (NDHF); Justin Schley, VP, Quality Foods (QF); Mike Dziadyk, Buyer, QF; Noel Hayward, President, QF; Moira Jenkins, Board Vice Chair, NDHF; Dianna Rivard, VP, Marketing, QF; Janice Perrino, CEO, NDHF; Mike Bellefontaine, Business Development Manager, QF
Thank you to the Parksville Qualicum Retired Teacher’s Association members who knitted these adorable hats for new babies at NRGH! They will help keep the babies comfortable and warm through the upcoming chilly months.
Photo: Janice Perrino, CEO, Hospital Foundation & Barb Brett, Parksville Qualicum Retired Teacher’s Association
Thank you to Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise for their $5,500 donation! The funds will support respiratory care and services at Oceanside Health Centre in Parksville.
Photo: Dr. David Copeland, VP, Medical Staff Association (MSA), Janice Krall, Chief Development Officer, Nanaimo Hospital Foundation, Dr. Joe Foster, MSA & Wendy Chisholm, Current Past President, Rotary Club of Qualicum Beach Sunrise
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Quality of life is an important part of patient care. The Hospital Foundation is committed to helping make residents as comfortable as possible. The smallest things can make a difference in patient quality of life like this aquarium at Trillium Lodge in Parksville. The little schools of fish bring a smile to the lodge residents as well as staff and visitors.
Due to the generosity of many donors, the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation was able to commit to over $3.8 million in funding to NRGH and the other care facilities it supports in the last fiscal year! The donations help fund medical equipment, patient comfort items, staff education and large projects such as the cardiac expansion at NRGH and Oceanside.
Read about some of the highlights over the past year on our news feed.
Thank you also to Dr. Rudston-Brown who was our guest speaker at our recent donor event where the photo was taken. He spoke about the importance of access to colonoscopies, why they are integral to our long-term health and the impact the new procedural suite in the Endoscopy Department at NRGH will have once it is built. Read about the colonoscopy campaign here.
Photo: Janice Perrino, CEO, Hospital Foundation; Dr. Blair Rudston Brown, Chief of Staff, NRGH; Sarah Sheridan, Temporary Director – Special Projects Surgical Services, NRGH; Moira Jenkins, Vice Chair, Hospital Foundation Board; Marci Ekland, Site Director, NRGH; Dr. Ben Williams, Executive Medical Director, GEO 2
Established on May 5, 1982, the Auxiliary and its dedicated volunteers have had a positive and lasting impact on the lives of hundreds of Lodge residents.
With an average of 55 members throughout the years, the Auxiliary made the daily lives of residents of the Lodge more comfortable and enjoyable. Their commitment has been unwavering; from operating the Tuck Shop and hosting special teas to helping to fund a bus for excursions.
Their support often went to the more personal level including providing a small Christmas gift to each of the residents and personalized birthday cards which often featured a special poem. One of their most recent projects was funding the installation of sunshade blinds on all the windows to increase the comfort for residents.
With their membership now down to 16, there just aren’t enough members to do all that needs to be done to keep the Auxiliary running. They will continue to operate the small Tuck Shop though as it means so much to the residents to have access to their favourite treats and little gifts they can purchase for their loved ones.
“The Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation would like to thank the Trillium Auxiliary for their long and tireless support of Trillium Lodge in Parksville” said Janice Perrino, Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation CEO. “The funds they have raised and the thousands of hours they have volunteered to enhance the lives of the Lodge residents and to help staff deliver even better care is just incredible.”
Residual funds and any future gifts will be held in trust by the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation and dispersed to Trillium Lodge as needed for two key areas: provision of select personal items to residents who could not otherwise afford them, and funding for monthly activities that keep the residents active and engaged.
Thank you to the Parksville Quilters Guild for yet another generous and colourful donation of quilts and other items! These comfort items make a big difference for our littlest of patients. They will be given to babies and young children who are receiving care in the NICU at NRGH and VI SCAN (Vancouver Island Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Program).
Photo: Janice Perrino, CEO, Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation and Chris Kotzian, Comfort Quilt Coordinator, Parksville Quilters Guild
Thank you to the RBC Foundation for the incredible $20,000 donation for cardiac equipment at NRGH and Oceanside Health Centre in Parksville! Once the project is complete, cardiac exam wait times will be reduced by as much as 50% and 95% of cardiac pre and post-surgical and procedural care will be able to be delivered in our community!
RBC Foundation, RBC and RBC Dominion Securities have a strong legacy of supporting the community and the local hospital. Collectively, they have donated over $400,000 over the years to the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation in support of better healthcare in our community. Incredible!
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