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COMMUNITY SUPPORT TRANSFORMS STANDARD CARE INTO STATE-OF-THE-ART CARE

Victoria Hospitals Foundation launches Innovation, the third and final phase of the $10 million Emerge Stronger campaign.

Since the launch of the Victoria Hospitals Foundation’s $10 million fundraising campaign, Emerge Stronger, in October 2021, more than 4,300 community members have united to raise over $7 million to support every area of care within the three hospitals the Foundation serves: Royal Jubilee, Victoria General, and Gorge Road hospitals.

The campaign’s first phase, Recovery, raised $4 million to help Victoria hospitals recover services and upgrade priority equipment impacted by the pandemic. The second phase, Local Care, raised $3 million to support Island-first advancements in our hospitals to keep patients close to home while they heal.

Now, the final phase, Innovation , centres on raising $3 million for ground-breaking research and equipment that allows our care teams to deliver more efficiently now, and into the future. For patients who are waiting for breakthroughs in care, your support can’t come quickly enough.

INNOVATION PHASE: $3 MILLION

INNOVATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS

Your giving can be the catalyst that a clinician needs to transform their novel idea into reality. Help develop new care methods today by suppor ting research projects in our hospitals.

NEW & ADVANCED EQUIPMENT

You can help fund new and improved equipment our care teams have asked for. New equipment has the power to significantly improve care for Island physicians and their patients.

As we turn to the next and final phase of Emerge Stronger, our hospitals need our community’s continued support as they innovate for a better future.

Together with your help, we aim to raise $3 million for ground-breaking research and equipment that will allow our care teams to deliver care more effectively now, and in the future. And I know that achieving true excellence requires vision and leadership. Even the brightest minds can only accomplish so much without the resources they need to make their ideas a reality.

The most innovative healthcare systems in the country have the most philanthropic support. Many people don’t know that donors fund 40% of the equipment at Royal Jubilee and Victoria General hospitals, or that our hospitals are referral centres for more than 860,000 Vancouver Islanders.

We know you are asking for new ways for care to be delivered. You are asking for change. Together, with our clinicians and researchers, we are committed to responding.

When community members like you support innovation and research, you empower profound medical advancements that can significantly impact someone’s care and quality of life, and even prevent them from needing to step foot inside our hospitals at all. Our donors are truly the catalysts that enable our clinicians’ transformative research—research that simply would not be possible without this support.

I hope you will read the following stories and letters from within our hospitals. They share the perspectives of some of our hospitals’ brightest minds, most dedicated clinicians, and most grateful patients. Together, they highlight just how much community support can achieve for the healthcare we all rely on.

I’m also proud and grateful to share that Peninsula Co-op will match all donations up to a total of $100,000 for the Innovation phase until March 31, 2023. This is your opportunity to have your gift matched and make an immense and lasting impact on the future of care in our local hospitals—and beyond.

Avery Brohman