Entries by Victoria Hospitals Foundation

Mel Cooper

The Patient Care Centre are Royal Jubilee Hospital is an elder-friendly environment, featuring single-bed rooms for comfort and privacy, as well as landscaped outdoor spaces for patients and family to enjoy. Other features include sound-minimizing material on the floors, ceilings and walls, as well as inter-hospital communication devices that avoid background noises, improving the patients’ […]

Patient Story: Pam

Meet Pam, a woman who despite being fit and healthy had a large tumour growing adjacent to her spinal cord. This kind of tumour is rare and if left untreated would jeopardize her ability to walk or lead a normal life. Immediate neurosurgery was Pam’s only option. A decade ago, many complex neurosurgical cases like […]

Howie Meeker

Interventional cardiologists fix hearts through minimally invasive procedures for patients who are having a heart attack or living with cardiovascular disease. The work they do often provides patients with instantaneous results and immediate relief for a better, longer life. Royal Jubilee Hospital’s team of cardiologists, technicians, nurses and support staff use a heart catheterization laboratory […]

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Larry Paley

Larry, a retired computer software developer from Ladysmith, spent four months last year at Victoria General Hospital recovering from a heart attack and stroke. After his stroke, he could no longer swallow. Anything he attempted to eat traveled down his airway and into his lungs because he couldn’t feel it. Larry had a high risk […]

Baby Ayvrie

Little Ayvrie was born prematurely at just 28 weeks. She needed immediate intensive care to nurture her tiny lungs and heart that could not work on their own. She spent the first year of her life with Dr. Amanda Barclay, Pediatric Intensivist, and Dr. Nisha Pillay, Neonatologist, at Victoria General Hospital, in both the Neonatal […]

Steve Palen

There was a time when Steve Palen thought his chronic Hepatitis C and resulting liver cancer would claim his life. It wasn’t until he was referred to Dr. Paul Sobkin in Victoria that the then-Nanaimo resident thought he stood a chance. Steve’s positive outcome — and many other success stories — would not be possible […]

Neil Sinclair

Neil Sinclair was one of the first to benefit from advanced catheter ablation, a new electrophysiology procedure we brought to Victoria. When electrophysiologists Drs. Rick Leather and Larry Sterns met Neil, his arrhythmia predated the technology to fix it. Due to faulty electrical pathways, his heart was beating too fast and inconsistently, which left him […]

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Lyndsay Green

Avid boater Lyndsay Green knows that accidents can happen when you least expect them. After a day on the ocean, Lyndsay and her husband were heading in when she jumped to the dock from the boat to tie it up as she always does. But this time, she misjudged. Lyndsay was rushed in an ambulance […]

Island Health caregivers give back

Victoria radiologists band together for bladder scanners When a group of inspired and dedicated people come together to support a common goal, remarkable change can take place. The members of the Victoria Radiology Consulting group exemplify the spirit of working together to improve healthcare in our community and we want to celebrate their contribution! As […]

Our community gives back

Adrienne’s Restaurant and Tea Garden In 2018, for a fifth year in a row, Sabine Schwaiger, owner of Adrienne’s Restaurant and Tea Garden, donated a percentage of their Afternoon High Tea sales for February and March toward Heart Health and Cancer Care at Royal Jubilee Hospital through the Victoria Hospitals Foundation. From Sabine Schwaiger My […]