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Your donations at work
 Thank you! The 2008 Dream Lottery sold out!
Congratulations to all of the winners, and thank you for supporting hospitals in London. Ticket sales support care, teaching and research programs benefitting patients and residents across St. Joseph’s. A list of all winners is available here
Donate your BCE shares and invest in the delivery of care at St. Joseph's Health Care, London.
By choosing to donate your
shares you will:
- Touch the lives of thousands of community members
- Directly impact the delivery of health care at St. Joseph's
- Pay no capital gains tax
- Receive a charitable donation receipt
Just how can you impact the care at St. Joseph's? Here are just a few examples of what your gift could do:
250 BCE shares (approximately $10,000) will fund vital patient care improvements, advanced technology and research priorities.
1,200 BCE shares (approximately $50,000) will fund a complete exam room used in detecting some of the leading causes of blindness - macular degeneration and glaucoma.
5,900 BCE shares (approximately $250,000) will fund an ultrasound unit used in detecting breast cancer for thousands of women each year.
St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation can easily accept BCE or any other shares, and you’ll receive a charitable donation receipt for the full donation amount.
Please talk to your financial advisor to learn more about the benefits of donating your shares and then use our Gifts of Securities Transfer Form to initiate the donation process. Please contact us at 519-646-6085 if you have any questions. Our staff will be pleased to help you.
On Tuesday, March 18, North restaurant, located at 910 Waterloo Street,
hosted a gourmet gala event in support of St. Joseph's Health Care
Foundation. General Manager Andrew Ross, hosted a black tie dinner
consisting of cocktails, wine pairings, and a seven course meal. The
fundraising event sold out with approximately 90 guests attending.
Proceeds of the evening will support The Spirit of St. Joseph's Fund,
which allows the Foundation to respond to the most urgent needs
supporting patient care, teaching and research across St. Joseph's
Health Care, London.
Thank you to North's owners Terry Smith and Don Murray, Executive
Chef Doug McCoppen, Andrew Ross and staff, for such a wonderful event, and for everyone in attendance for supporting St. Joseph's Health Care Foundation.
RBC Donation for The Aging. Rehabilitation & Geriatric
Care
Research Centre at Parkwood Hospital
On Tuesday February 12, Patrick Tremblay, RBC’s regional vice-president, presented St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation with a $200,000 donation for The Aging, Rehabilitation & Geriatric Care Research Centre at Parkwood Hospital.
"This donation to the research centre will improve the quality of geriatric care and rehabilitation support available in the community, for all those who may need it one day,” says Tremblay. "RBC is proud to support the good works of St. Joseph's Health Care in London." |
Officials with RBC and St. Joseph's Health Care, along with patient John Bannon, were all on hand for the $200,000 cheque donation. |
RBC Royal Bank branches across the city celebrated the donation by giving customers free Valentine’s Day candy hearts packaged with the message “Because we all need St. Joseph’s.”
Mr. John Bannon was also on had to share his personal story with representatives of RBC. Mr Bannon, a Londoner, husband, and father of two was left a quadriplegic at age 36 after an accident around the family swimming pool. His rehabilitation at Parkwood Hospital, part of St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, took months.
This donation brings RBC Foundation’s cumulative giving to St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation to well over $500,000. RBC has been supporting the London community for close to a century, and this donation is RBC's way of ensuring London remains a vibrant and healthy community.
The Aging, Rehabilitation & Geriatric Care Research Centre, which opened at Parkwood Hospital on September 20, 2006, is part of the Lawson Health Research Institute. It fosters innovation, collaboration and integration of a wide range of medical disciplines related to the care of the aged and the physically challenged. Fifty-six scientists, research personnel students from across Canada, once scattered throughout London’s health care facilities, have, through this Centre, now converged in one, purpose-built facility, bringing with them their collective brainpower and resources.
The Centre’s location at Parkwood Hospital, one of Canada’s premier rehabilitation and geriatric care hospitals, is ideal for meeting the main purpose of the Centre’s work which is to translate research findings into patient care practice.
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A million dollar gift
for patient care
St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation and its board of directors held a special event at Parkwood marking the occasion. Guests included friends and volunteers of Parkwood Hospital, Foundation and Hospital board members, and donors.
For clinical staff at Parkwood, the gift fills a vital need to continue to improve service. Says St. Joseph’s vice president Michael Boucher, “This gift will support frontline patient care by providing equipment for patient care and comfort, fund important upgrades to patient care areas, and allow us to provide enhancements that improve the care experience for those cared for here at Parkwood.” |
Unwrapping the gift from left: Mike Boucher, vice president, St. Joseph’s Health Care, London; Linda Dietz, chair, St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation board of directors, and Michelle Campbell, president and CEO, St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation. |
Paying tribute to the donors, Michelle Campbell, president and CEO of St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation and vice president fund development for St. Joseph’s Health Care, London says, “We are grateful to them for acknowledging the commitment of our caregivers at Parkwood in such a meaningful way.”
“Parkwood is very close to our hearts. It really helps people, and we thought it was time to do something important for Parkwood. We get great satisfaction out of knowing that what we have started is going to make a difference forever.”
~ Anonymous founder of the Friends of Parkwood Patient & Resident Care Fund.
If you would like to learn more about endowed gifts, or making a donation to support the work at
St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, please call us at 519-646-6085, or e-mail us.
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 Auxiliary
Supports Care
For nearly a century, the St. Joseph’s Health Centre
Auxiliary has followed their Constitution directing them to
assist the hospital in every possible way in the interests
of the best patient care.
Continuing with that mission, they have recently donated
$315,000 to support the purchase of new exam lanes at Ivey
Eye Institute. An exam lane houses all the essential diagnostic
tools for the ophthalmologists to perform complete eye examinations
for patients. Once complete, the new Ivey Eye Institute at
St. Joseph’s will house 53 exam lanes for patents.
The Auxiliary chose to support the acquisition of exam lanes
for the Ivey Eye Institute as they recognized that an aging
population will likely have an increased need for treatment
for conditions like cataracts and other age-related eye problems.
This latest donation from the Auxiliary is another in a long
list of contributions they have recently made. In 2004, the
Auxiliary donated $46,000 to support the Snoezelen Room in
the Wellness Centre at Mount Hope Centre for Long Term Care
of St. Joseph’s Health Care, London. Last year, the
Lottery, managed by the Auxiliary donated $12,000 in support
of the digital retina camera for the Ivey Eye Institute and
$20,000 for the digital ultrasound machine for the Breast
Imaging Program in Diagnostic Imaging at St. Joseph’s.
All of this is on top of the $1 million dollars the
Auxiliary donated in 2000 – a donation that supports
the Diabetes Centre, Rheumatology Centre and the Chronic Obstructive
Lung Disease Program.
“The funds for this Ivey Eye exam lanes donation were
raised through our regular fundraising areas,” Margaret
Herbert, Auxiliary President, explains. “This includes
the gift shop in St. Joseph’s Hospital and the tuck
shop in Mount Hope and until March of last year when it closed,
the Tim Horton’s coffee shop at St. Joseph’s Hospital
and until this past October, baby photos.”
St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation is grateful to
the St. Joseph’s Health Centre Auxiliary for supporting
the Ivey Eye Institute.
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