Caring Spirits - NICU Team

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (or NICU) nurses are pretty special people. A family received exceptional care during the birth of their premature child, and their friends and family raised money to support pediatrics in honour of the whole NICU…

Caring Spirits: Lisa, Sara & Jen

This touching Caring Spirit video is all about NURSES, including one who talks about watching a young patient take his first steps after a cardiac arrest... [title size="2"]HOW TO NAME A CARING SPIRIT AND SUPPORT YOUR HOSPITAL[/title] The Caring…

Caring Spirit - Volunteer Resources

More Caring Spirits! A patient chose to acknowledge the excellent assistance of the Volunteer Resources Team by making a donation to the Victoria Hospitals Foundation in their honour! Volunteers are respected and valued members of the healthcare…

Caring Spirit - Marilyn Elder

Congratulations to Caring Spirit, Marilyn! Marilyn is an Enterostomal Therapy Nurse - a registered nurse with advanced and specialized knowledge and clinical skills in wound and ostomy care. Her outstanding commitment made a big difference…

Brent Kaufmann's story

Hello, Too often someone we know gets diagnosed with heart trouble. Even though I have family members with heart conditions I never thought it would happen to me. My name is Brent Kaufmann. I’m 62 and earlier this year I was enjoying an…

Help Hearts Beat Stronger

This fall, the Victoria Hospitals Foundation needs your help to raise funds for a new diagnostic tool that is close to every patient's heart: a specialized cardiac ultrasound. It’s called a Transesophageal Echocardiogram, and our cardiac surgical…

Sawyer's 1st Birthday!

  Thank you to one of our youngest donors, Sawyer! Sawyer donated $185 from his first birthday party. We are touched by his family’s generosity! _____________________________________________________________ Hello, On August 14, our…

Sasha Blue's Story

Every morning when we wake up and go into our daughter Sasha Blue’s bedroom, she greets us with a huge smile. She wakes up cheerful and excited to start the day. It’s hard to believe that just a little over six months ago, she weighed less…

Thank you Peninsula Co-op!

Thank you to Peninsula Co-op for their generous donation of $5,000 to support Vancouver Island’s tiniest patients! This gift will help fund life-saving equipment for Victoria General Hospital's Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care units.

"BaBa" Bears meet their little Patients

As part of the campaign to raise funds for equipment that will help Island kids survive and thrive at Victoria General Hospital, we asked our community to click 'like' and help give a BaBa to a child in hospital. Thousands of people responded,…