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20 years of brightening lives and warming hearts
History of the Season of Celebration
The Season of Celebration campaign began with a single question from the caregiving team: “How can we make the Christmas season a little brighter for those in our care who can’t go home for the holidays?”
Today, twenty years later, Season of Celebration is a tradition…as treasured as the season it celebrates. One by one, the “Lights of Caring” are lit across the sites of St. Joseph’s Health Care, bringing comfort and joy to all who see them – from patients and residents and their families to the doctors, staff and volunteers who care for them.
It’s the caring individuals in this community who make Season of Celebration happen year after magical year.
In total more than $3 million has been donated to support a variety of projects including bed check and patient monitoring systems, ventilators, wheel chairs, music therapy programs, ultrasound machines and exercise equipment.
Season of Celebration History - a year at a glance
- 1990 - Bed Check System
- 1991 - Rehabilitation Research
- 1992 - Rehabilitation Research
- 1993 - Patient Monitoring System
- 1994 - Ceiling Lifts and Patient Dining Room Refurbishment
- 1995 - Specialized medical equipment
- 1996 - Pro-motion wheelchairs and pressure-reducing mattresses
- 1997 - Veterans Memorial Park
- 1998 - Ventilators and music therapy
- 1999 - Driving Assessment Centre and enhancement to Special Care Unit Garden
- 2000 - Pressure-reducing foam mattresses
- 2001 - Refurbishment of the Parkwood Independent Living Unit; Installation of Retractable Awning outside veterans pub
- 2002 - Installation of new radio/television systems
- 2003 - Installation of new patient call system
- 2004 - Therapeutic railroad garden
- 2005 - In the first year of city-wide Season of Celebration, beds and bedside furniture for all locations of St. Joseph's Health Care, London.
- 2006 - Electric wheelchairs and new manual wheelchairs, mammography equipment, exercise equipment and high-low beds.
- 2007 – Electric wheel chairs, ultrasound equipment, exercise equipment, state-of-the-art eye care technology, and other high priority needs.
- 2008 – Ceiling lifts, imaging equipment and pressure-reducing mattresses.
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