Overwhelming support—our Giving Tuesday $12,000 match is now complete! But your support is still needed. Help fund up to 12 new patient beds for Royal Jubilee Hospital’s Emergency Department. Thank you for making a positive difference for our hospitals!
Please donate to this Giving Tuesday initiative.
We have this saying that we like to live by—“united in belief.” It inspires my husband Murray and I to seek ways in which we can engage with our community to work towards a common goal. Because we know that when we work together, anything is possible.
That same sense of passion and unity is what our hospitals and caregivers need right now in order to feel supported.
That’s why we are inviting our community to join us in championing the Victoria Hospitals Foundation’s Giving Tuesday initiative, It’s More than Just a Bed. This one-day-only campaign has a goal of funding up to 12 new Emergency Department beds to help Royal Jubilee Hospital emerge stronger from the pandemic. Murray and I will be personally matching donations up to a total of $12,000 to unite donors and encourage them to give on this particular day.
This is our way of giving back to the compassionate, world-leading care teams and the many programs they contribute to in our hospitals. It moves us deeply to know that despite great challenges, they continue to show up every day, caring for our families and loved ones. We applaud them.
We have always been aware of the need for our community to support healthcare, it’s something that has driven our support of many worthy causes in our lifetime. When we give through the Victoria Hospitals Foundation, we know we are strengthening the two largest referral hospitals on Vancouver Island—we feel as though we are touching more lives and benefitting the greatest number of people in our community.
We have such a connected community in Greater Victoria. There’s a strong sense of pride in the relationships we foster here with our friends and colleagues. That feeling becomes even more pronounced when we come together to support a singular cause like Giving Tuesday.
Our hospitals provide comfort, care and hope to so many people at the most vulnerable times in their lives. By supporting It’s More than Just a Bed, you can help bring that comfort too. Together, we are “united in belief.” Together, we have the power to make a true difference.
— Lynda and Murray Farmer, North Saanich
About the Donors
Lynda and Murray Farmer are local healthcare champions. Murray’s commitment to the Victoria Hospitals Foundation grew from his father’s, George Farmer, involvement many years ago as a board member of the Royal Jubilee Hospitals Foundation and his own subsequent involvement as Board Chair. And Lynda’s respect for healthcare stems from her paternal grandmother, who trained as a nurse in the early 1900’s at the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster and her own involvement in health care administration and communication. We thank Lynda and Murray for continuing their support of local healthcare here on Vancouver Island.
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