Entries by Victoria Hospitals Foundation

Small Comforts Make a Big Difference

A huge thank you to CFAX Santas Anonymous for making a $20,000 donation of activity kits for children in the Emergency Department at Victoria General Hospital. Since 2009, CFAX Santas Anonymous Society has generously provided funds for activities and toys that keep children occupied, happy and at ease while visiting the emergency room. The toys and activities […]

Pacific Blue Cross

The Pacific Blue Cross Community Connection Health Foundation has donated $36,066 to purchase four new Electric Dialysis Chairs for Royal Jubilee Hospital as part of the Building Care Together campaign. Dialysis is a life-sustaining treatment for patients experiencing kidney failure, who can spend up to six hours a day, four times a week using these […]

Meet BaBa Bear!

Meet BaBa Bear! For every 10 new likes of our Victoria Hospitals Foundation Facebook page, we’ll give a BaBa Bear to a child in hospital at Victoria General. You can give small comforts to small patients like Ayvrie. Please LIKE OUR PAGE NOW! 1500 likes = 150 BaBa Bears! If you would like to know […]

Help Young Patients Survive & Thrive

You can help us raise $310,000 for intensive care equipment for seriously ill children and babies at Victoria General Hospital, our Island’s pediatric specialty hospital. Vancouver Island families with sick children rely on our hospital to have life-saving equipment needed to help their little ones survive, get healthy and get back home. Here is the […]

Community Celebrates $25.2M Success

March 28 was no ordinary day at Royal Jubilee Hospital. With news cameras rolling, musicians performing, and firefighters rappelling down the side of the Patient Care Centre, the Jim Pattison Atrium and Concourse was buzzing as more than 100 community members celebrated the conclusion of the Building Care Together campaign. The campaign launched in a […]

Great West Life Pledges $100,000

Great-West, London Life and Canada Life has pledged $100,000 to the Building Care Together (BCT) campaign. The announcement came March 28 during the campaign wrap-up event at Royal Jubilee Hospital.  This gift will support the purchase of leading-edge technology for geriatric mental health services at the Royal Jubilee Hospital Patient Care Centre. Funds will be […]

Tree of Life

The Tree of Life campaign continues to grow at Shoppers Drug Mart. Last fall, hundreds of customers donated at the till to support women’s health at Victoria General Hospital. Thanks to their generosity, the campaign raised more than $2,700, surpassing last year’s total by nearly $700. Thank you to Shoppers Drug Mart owner Omar Alasaly […]

Extraordinary gifts to Island babies

The Victoria General Hospital Auxiliary has recently helped to raise more than $87,000 to purchase essential equipment for the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The funds have been directed toward the purchase of a cardiac ultrasound monitor and a blanket warmer that will directly improve treatment and patient care for infants who need specialized […]

Local donor makes it $25 million + counting

A local retired businessman who now serves as a councillor in North Saanich has given $265,000 to our Building Care Together campaign. A gift that pushes the campaign to the finish line. Mr. Craig Mearns is a retired businessman who serves as a councillor in North Saanich. He has served as a member of the […]

Fall Campaign Update – Allisha’s Story

Our community’s response to fully equip the Patient Care Centre at Royal Jubilee Hospital has been so generous! With business leader Mr. Jim Pattison matching every gift, we are well on our way to our goal. Thank you to every one of our donors.  To those who are thinking of donating, we do still need your help! Here’s one […]