Entries by Victoria Hospitals Foundation

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 to a patient in her care and they decided to say thank you by making a donation to the Victoria […]

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 active life: working, playing old-timers hockey and backpacking around South America with […]

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 team needs three new ones. The three cardiac ultrasounds cost $725,000, but together, every donation will add up to […]

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 little Sawyer is celebrating his first birthday! We feel so lucky to have a healthy, happy family. We’ve never had to bring Sawyer to the hospital, and can’t […]

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 than one pound and was small enough to fit […]

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, showing their support for young patients getting well at Victoria General and […]

Small Comforts Make a Big Difference

A huge thank you to CFAX Santas Anonymous for making a $20,000 donation of activity kits for children in the Emergency Department at Victoria General Hospital. Since 2009, CFAX Santas Anonymous Society has generously provided funds for activities and toys that keep children occupied, happy and at ease while visiting the emergency room. The toys and activities […]

Pacific Blue Cross

The Pacific Blue Cross Community Connection Health Foundation has donated $36,066 to purchase four new Electric Dialysis Chairs for Royal Jubilee Hospital as part of the Building Care Together campaign. Dialysis is a life-sustaining treatment for patients experiencing kidney failure, who can spend up to six hours a day, four times a week using these […]

Meet BaBa Bear!

Meet BaBa Bear! For every 10 new likes of our Victoria Hospitals Foundation Facebook page, we’ll give a BaBa Bear to a child in hospital at Victoria General. You can give small comforts to small patients like Ayvrie. Please LIKE OUR PAGE NOW! 1500 likes = 150 BaBa Bears! If you would like to know […]