Entries by Victoria Hospitals Foundation

Celebrating Your Impact

Dear Friends, It might seem like we just passed a new year, but at the Victoria Hospitals Foundation, we actually celebrate two. It’s fitting, really. Just as spring is arriving we are also in a season of renewal—our new fiscal year begins on April 1, 2021. However, before I share my excitement of what a new […]

$500,000 DONATION MATCH INSPIRING COMMUNITY GIVING TO ROYAL JUBILEE HOSPITAL

Seaspan Victoria Shipyards and the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation Initiate Match In Support of the Victoria Hospitals Foundation   Seaspan Victoria Shipyards and the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation are matching donations up to $500,000 as part of their $2.65 million transformational commitment to Victoria Hospitals Foundation (VHF), made in November 2020. With this […]

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Save-On-Foods: Helping Local Hospitals

VICTORIA, BC — Today, Save-On-Foods stores in the Greater Victoria Area pledged an incredible $300,000 to the Victoria Hospitals Foundation’s It’s Critical campaign to expand critical care capacity at Royal Jubilee Hospital (RJH). To support this commitment, eight Victoria area Save-On-Foods stores launched ‘Helping Local Hospitals Together’, a series of in-store initiatives to raise money for local critical care expansion, helping patients […]

COVID-19: Local Research Team Finding Hidden Cases

How do you count what you can’t see? Dr. Laura Cowen, a statistician at the University of Victoria, is working with a team of Island Health experts to do just that when it comes to “hidden” COVID-19 cases. The team will estimate the number of undiagnosed cases using statistical models drawn from wildlife ecology. “By […]