Entries by Victoria Hospitals Foundation

Kaelyn and Kai Raise $400 for NICU

Huge thanks to Kaelyn and Kai Abrahamson, who raised $400 for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit this holiday season! For the second year in a row, Kaelyn and Kai worked hard selling poinsettias around their community in support of Vancouver Island’s tiniest and most fragile patients at Victoria General Hospital. Last year, more than 5,000 babies […]

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Caring Spirits: Emergency Department

Whether faced with shortness of breath or a severe injury, patients coming to our Emergency Department need quality care as quickly as possible. The Emergency team at Royal Jubilee Hospital diagnoses and treats more than 50,000 patients every year. This hardworking medical team recently has received a Caring Spirit award! A former patient who experienced […]

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Caring Spirit: Janine Gerrits

Janine Gerrits works on 8-North at Royal Jubilee Hospital, specializing in General Medicine and Lung Health. Her outstanding commitment to patient care was recently recognized with a Caring Spirit award! A grateful patient wanted to acknowledge the care Janine provided by making a donation to the hospital in her honour. These funds will support new medical equipment for […]

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Caring Spirits: Transplant Clinic

The Victoria Regional Transplant Clinic provides support, education and follow-up care for patients who have received kidney and heart transplants. These caregivers make a big difference in the lives of many patients, including one former patient who chose to honour them with a Caring Spirit award! 20 years after receiving a heart transplant, the patient’s […]

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Caring Spirit: Dr. Nadra

Dr. Imad Nadra is a Cardiologist at Royal Jubilee Hospital who works hard every day to diagnose and treat heart disease. His outstanding patient care made a big difference a former patient, whose family decided to honour Dr. Nadra with a Caring Spirit donation towards new medical equipment! We often hear from patients who want […]

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Caring Spirits: 6C North

The medical teams of 6C North at Victoria General Hospital specialize in General Medicine, diagnosing and managing adult diseases involving organ systems and advanced illnesses. This team’s warm and professional care inspired a former patient to make a Caring Spirit donation to the Victoria Hospitals Foundation! Huge thanks to the donor for their generous gift, and […]

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Caring Spirits: Lung Health

When our community needs medical assistance, Island Health caregivers are always there to help. Bill Robertson is a former Lung Health patient who wanted to thank the outstanding medical teams that helped him get home to his family. Listen to this story about the incredible experience Bill had on the 8th floor at Royal Jubilee Hospital, […]

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Steve Palen’s story

My wife, Liz, and I never spoke about it, but we both thought that I might not make it. I had been living with Hepatitis C, which attacks the liver, for more than four decades, when I was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2007. We were living in Nanaimo at the time and it wasn’t […]

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Help advance medical imaging

This fall, the Victoria Hospitals Foundation needs your help to raise $1.5 million for two new Interventional Angiography Systems, one at Victoria General Hospital and one at Royal Jubilee Hospital. These systems are unique in that they help treat a wide variety of conditions, including stroke, renal failure, liver failure, cancer, osteoporosis and infertility. You […]

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