Following an extensive search process, the Board of Directors of the Victoria Hospital Foundation (VHF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Cody Barnett as the Foundation’s new Executive Director, effective June 1, 2022. Cody brings nearly fifteen years of experience in fundraising, marketing, donor and community engagement, and non-profit leadership. For the past seven years, Cody has been the Director of Development, Saskatchewan, and the National Director of Campaigns & Major Gifts with the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Previously, he has held positions with the University of Saskatchewan, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, and other organizations.
Cody joins the VHF at an exciting time as the Ministry of Health and Saskatchewan Health Authority will be undertaking a major capital renovation and physical expansion of the Victoria Hospital over the next few years. He will lead our team of volunteers and employees to new levels of success as we reach for our ambitious goal of a new hospital for the north.
“As a relative newcomer to Prince Albert, it is incredible to see what the community has accomplished when it comes together. The outpouring of support for the new NICU is one such example of this.I am excited to work with the donors, volunteers, staff, and Indigenous partners to provide greater access to enhanced and inclusive health care close to home. It is a privilege to have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of people not only in Prince Albert but across northern Saskatchewan.”
Cody Barnett, Executive Director, VHF
"The VHF Board is excited to have selected Cody. We know that Cody will enrich northern health care with his enthusiasm, talents, and commitment to the mission of the VHF,"
Lyle Karasiuk, Volunteer Chair, VHF Board of Directors.
Since its inception in 1985 by a handful of passionate volunteers, the Victoria Hospital Foundation has raised funds to purchase essential medical equipment and fund programs at the Victoria Hospital and two attached care homes, Herb Bassett Home and Pineview Terrace. Our Foundation proudly works with donors and community partners to raise much-needed funds to help deliver the best health care possible to thousands of people in the north each year through investing in the best equipment and technology.
For more information contact:
Lyle Karasiuk, Chair, VHF Board of Directors
306-961-9037
Cody Barnett, ED, VHF
306-716-9609
The Victoria Hospital Foundation (VHF) is excited to announce an incredible gift of $20,000 from Kelly & Susi Miller of Prince Albert. The personal gift was a continuation of their generosity and support of local healthcare. Their passion about the Foundation’s campaign for the new NICU was overwhelming after having first-hand experience with the birth of a medically fragile grandchild.
In the fall of 2018, the Victoria Hospital Foundation launched a $5 million dollar campaign to build and equip a state of the art, level 2 NICU for sick babies born in the north. To date, the community and Foundation have raised just over $3M. Every day, eleven fragile newborns will have better outcomes because of donations like the Millers.
“We all hear of the need, but seldom do we act until it affects us personally. A decade ago, Susi and I were blessed with our tenth grandchild. Very soon after birth, the baby required medical attention not available in Prince Albert. Only then did we understand the vital addition that our own NICU could provide. Knowing your child needs specialized care is enough of a burden not to add the complication of being 85 miles from home. Travelling in the dead of a Saskatchewan winter, the expense of missing work and living in a hotel added to the anxiety of the situation. And of course not having the creature comforts of home only added to the anxiety. We truly have a need for this unit. It has been a long time coming.
Our family is proud to support the efforts to bring our own NICU facility on line. We urge all who can, to support this much-needed project.”
Kelly and Susi Miller, Prince Albert
“Our Foundation and medical teams are deeply thankful to Kelly and Susi Miller for their commitment to local healthcare and their incredible generosity. Their gift will help us to fund a state of the art medication dispensing system for the new Malhotra NICU. It’s this kind of technology that is made possible only because of our donors and community. ”
Sherry Buckler, Victoria Hospital Foundation CEO
The Victoria Hospital Foundation’s mission is to build awareness of and inspire investment in local health care and the well-being of the people of Prince Albert and surrounding communities.
For More Information:
Sherry Buckler, CFRE
CEO | Victoria Hospital Foundation
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(306)765-6105
1 day, 3 radio stations, 12 hours. The Victoria Hospital Foundation is excited to announce an amazing $351,281.68 was raised at this year’s Give A Little Life Day Campaign – Your Day, Your Hospital, Your Health.
Today’s 12-hour radiothon is in its 16th year and featured numerous stories from clinical staff throughout the hospital. We celebrated their hard work, dedication, and sacrifice through the biggest health care crisis of our generation. Community members answered the call for help through donating online, over the phone, and through the drive-thru bay at Mann Northway’s location. Numerous large donations were announced and included a tremendous $100,000 gift at the end of the day from Prince Albert philanthropists, Gordon and Jill Rawlinson.
“We are deeply grateful to each and every person who donated both big and small, to this year’s Give a Little Life Day. Our community is the heart of our Foundation and our donors transform healthcare at the Vic hospital every single day through their generosity. When our hospital needs help, our community responds and we thank you!”
- Sherry Buckler, CEO
Victoria Hospital Foundation
Money raised from this year’s radiothon will be used for the most urgently needed equipment and technology throughout the Victoria Hospital. From our ICU and lab and surgical units to our long-term care facilities, the big-heartedness of our community will be felt throughout.
100% of every donation to the Victoria Hospital Foundation stays in our community for the benefit of patients and families here in our community. For more information please contact:
Sherry Buckler, CFRE
CEO | Victoria Hospital Foundation
(306)765-6105
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My name is Dr. James Harris. Over my career, I have served in several roles in medical and hospital governance locally and provincially. I was born in Prince Albert and have been a Family Physician here since 1983.
I am writing this note because I owe my life to the incredible staff at Victoria Hospital and to you, the generous donors who purchased equipment that saved me.
On December 14, 2020 I tested COVID-19 positive, likely from contact with a COVID patient. I expected I would have a mild disease but without warning my condition very suddenly and drastically worsened. On December 20th I was admitted to the ICU at Victoria Hospital. My family was in a constant state of fear that I might not survive and around Christmas day, they were told that they should come to say goodbye to me because there was concern that I would not live through the day. I remained on a life support ventilator for 25 days.
Miraculously, I started to improve and I recovered enough to be extubated and transferred to the Covid ward in the Victoria Hospital where I spent another month. I was finally discharged home on February 16, 2021.
As I reflect on my ordeal, the Victoria Hospital functions so well because of the people who work there. Hospital care is truly a team effort from admitting and discharge staff, ward clerks, dietary, cleaning staff, maintenance, IT, pharmacy, imaging, lab, respiratory technicians, medical records, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, doctors, and others I have probably overlooked. The current Covid pandemic has put a strain on all of these people.
Moreover, I have developed a new appreciation of how important our local hospital is vital for our community. Prince Albert is not the size of Saskatoon or Regina, which both inherently have more advanced technology. But I recognized that it is the generous donations from our community that allow the Victoria Hospital Foundation to even the playing field. One of the main reasons our excellent staff can deliver the kind of care that I received, is because of the gifts from people like you, that help put the right tools in their hands. Tools such as monitors, pumps, beds, diagnostic equipment, and more.
Most won’t pay much attention to our local hospital until it impacts them personally and directly. While we all hope that it isn’t the case, the reality is that almost all of us will one day need what Victoria Hospital can provide either for ourselves or for our loved ones. I would encourage everyone who can, to support this year’s Give a Little Life Day campaign through a donation to the Victoria Hospital Foundation. Thank you for supporting our hospital, our staff, and patients like me.
Sincerely,
Dr. James Harris, physician and grateful patient
The Victoria Hospital Foundation is thrilled to announce an astounding gift of $181,615.00 from Kinsmen TeleMiracle towards a critical piece of equipment for the new Malhotra Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the Victoria Hospital. The funds will purchase a mobile DR X-ray imaging machine for the new neonatal intensive care unit, currently under construction. The portable imaging system will be set up with software programs that will optimally image fragile or sick babies. Newborn babies have specific considerations for imaging including low radiation doses and immediate image viewing capabilities, which this piece of equipment will provide. The care team in our NICU will have the ability to view the images instantaneously. This kind of bedside point of care is the future and prevents having to move the baby to another area of the hospital for imaging. It also provides physicians precise and accurate imaging to guide them while intubating a very sick baby who is struggling to breathe.
“The Victoria Hospital Foundation would like to express our deep gratitude on behalf of Northern Saskatchewan for Kinsmen TeleMiracle’s commitment to improving the outcome of fragile babies born in our hospital. Every piece of technology needed for our new NICU will play a role in saving babies lives, and for that we are eternally grateful to Kinsmen TeleMiracle for making this generous gift.”
– Sherry Buckler, CEO, Victoria Hospital Foundation
“Thanks to the generosity of TeleMiracle donors, the Kinsmen Foundation’s Board of Directors was pleased to contribute to this vital piece of medical equipment. The NICU at the Victoria Hospital will improve the health outcomes for so many sick babies from the Prince Albert area and across northern Saskatchewan. This gift helps fulfill our mission of “Helping People Every Day.”
-Richard Kies, Executive Director, Kinsmen Foundation
In 2018, the Victoria Hospital Foundation launched a campaign to build and equip a new neonatal intensive care unit for our local hospital. Going from 350 to 4,000 square feet, the new unit is currently under construction and set to be complete late 2021. The fundraising goal to build and equip the NICU totals $4.75M, with just over $3M raised to date.
For more information please contact:
Sherry Buckler, CFRE
CEO | Victoria Hospital Foundation
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Kinsmen TeleMiracle
Richard Kies, Executive Director
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306-371-3124
New hospital is coming
There is universal excitement around the concept of a new hospital in Prince Albert. We are grateful to the provincial government for this incredible commitment to the healthcare of the North.
Today, Lakeland Ford unveiled two video gaming carts for the pediatric ward at the Victoria Hospital. These carts are the only ones of their kind in our province, and will allow children in hospital to play a wide variety of video games in their rooms. The two carts, one Nintendo Switch, and one Xbox One, are designed specifically for hospitals and are totally self contained and arrived fully loaded with today’s most popular games for all ages. They can be easily sanitized and have no discs or game cartridges to misplace. Lakeland Ford has also funded a new wall mounted TV for every patient room on the pediatric floor.
The Victoria Hospital Foundation would like to express our gratitude on behalf of Northern Saskatchewan for Lakeland Ford’s commitment to improving the experience of children that have to stay in our hospital.
“Our busy hospital has an even busier pediatric ward that cares for sick children ranging in age from infants to 17 years old. Most often, sick or infectious children must remain in isolation in their rooms while they recover. We are so grateful to Lakeland Ford for this incredible donation of brand new televisions and two amazing mobile gaming carts that will provide the children in our pediatrics ward with a much needed and fun distraction to lift their spirits as they get better.”
– Sherry Buckler, CEO, Victoria Hospital Foundation.
“This gift is a demonstration of our commitment to healthcare –particularly for kids – in Prince Albert and Northern Saskatchewan. Providing this unique donation to the Victoria Hospital is our way to help children and families at a time when they need it most – making a hospital stay just a little bit better. We’re extremely pleased to offer this support to our community and especially to our kids.” - Scott Newsom, Managing Partner, Lakeland Ford
For more information please contact:
Sherry Buckler, CRFE
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(306)940-6787
Scott Newsom
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Today, the Sandra Schmirler Foundation presented the Victoria Hospital Foundation with a cheque for $58,000 to purchase vital equipment for the new Malhotra NICU opening this fall. These funds will purchase an infant ventilator as part of the ongoing campaign to equip and furnish the new Malhotra neonatal intensive care unit at the Victoria Hospital in Prince Albert.
The board and staff of the Victoria Hospital Foundation express their gratitude on behalf of Northern Saskatchewan for the Sandra Schmirler Foundation’s commitment to caring for babies in NICUs across the country.
“Babies who are born too early or too sick can sometimes need extra assistance to breathe. This new infant ventilator will save babies’ lives and prevent the need to transfer them to other medical centres. Keeping babies close to home and their families is the best possible scenario. We are grateful to the Sandra Schmirler Foundation for helping improve healthcare in the North for our most vulnerable patients.”
– Sherry Buckler, CEO, Victoria Hospital Foundation.
"The Sandra Schmirler Foundation is thrilled to be supporting the purchase of life-saving equipment for fragile babies in northern Saskatchewan. The Foundation’s dream is that all babies born too soon, too small or too sick will be cared for in a NICU equipped with state-of-the-art life-saving equipment close to their homes, family and friends."
Ian Cunningham, Chair, Sandra Schmirler Foundation
For more information please contact:
Sherry Buckler, CRFE CEO | Victoria Hospital Foundation
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Tanya Martin, Program & Financial Services Manager
Sandra Schmirler Foundation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 1-866-210-6011 ext 2
Congratulations to the 2021 recipients of the annual Dr. MZ Hussain Memorial Scholarship program.
Allied professionals - Rapheal Muonagolu and Sarah Greening
Mental Health - Kathrynn Axton, Kylie Jackson, Dr. Lyndsay Foster, and Holly Samuel
RN & LPN - Paul Rumbaoa, Taina Golding, Chantelle Zelensky and Ashley Schmalz
Happy Staff/Happy Patients - Public Health Wellness Wednesdays
Our summer long flex tournament is back! Golf for your hospital when it's convenient for you and still get all the perks of a one-day tournament!
When you register and golf between May 25th and August 31, 2021 (maximum 148 golfers) at Emma Lake Golf Course, you will be able to participate in raising money for the residents in Long Term Care at Herb Bassett Home and Pineview Terrace. Funds raised from this event help to keep our dedicated resident transport van on the road! This van has been critical to the mental health of residents over the past year of lockdown.
Proudly presented by Lake Country Co=op and Emma Lake Golf Course, the 10th Annual ELGC Vic Hospital Foundation Charity Classic is $160 per golfer or $640 for a team of four.
Your registration fee includes:
• Texas scramble format, 18 holes, carts included
• Complimentary meal at the clubhouse whenever is convenient during your game
• $110 charitable tax receipt
• Prizes for the top 3 scoring teams!
It’s Simple!
We hope you will join us at the lake this summer and golf to support our residents in Long Term Care. Thank you to Emma Lake Golf Course and Lake Country Co-op for making this event possible.
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Meet the man whose job is to breathe for you, when you cannot.
We sat down with Marvin Nicklas a Registered Respiratory Therapist since 1988. Marvin has worked all over Western Canada and in the Middle East throughout his career and has been in Prince Albert for the past 15 years. He is one of 6 respiratory therapists at the Victoria Hospital.
Respiratory therapists are the unsung heroes of our hospitals. They work quietly behind the scenes and always have. You may be referred to one if you struggle with a chronic lung condition such as COPD, asthma or pneumonia. Or in the case of an acute emergency or trauma, you will need them to intervene to keep you breathing. From infants and children to adults, they work throughout the entire hospital in acute care and primary care settings. When it comes to chronic lung illnesses such as COPD, Marvin says there is no quick fix for anything, but respiratory therapists are there to work with each patient and help them understand the importance of their lung health.
Now, the question on everyone’s minds: ventilators and this terrible pandemic. We asked Marvin about this, “When a patient has been deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level, they become hypoxic. An oxygen level below 80% is dangerous to our vital organs and intervention is required. Ventilating a patient is never our first choice and is almost always a sign that things are extremely serious.” Ventilation requires sedation to paralyze the patient in order to insert the equipment, and the goal is to have you on the ventilator for as short as time as possible. “But that isn’t always how it works out”, he said. What was scary to hear, is how many ICU survivors who come off the ventilator suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nearly one third of those patients show symptoms of PTSD for up to two years, sometimes even longer.
“That’s because being on a ventilator is a terrible experience for most people,” Marvin said. “And once on the ventilator, if things deteriorate, it can be heartbreaking for family and for the patient as there really is no way to say your goodbyes.”
During this pandemic, Marvin said his team has been run off their feet - particularly during the months November – January when hospitalizations and community cases were so high. Caring for up to 8 ventilated patients in our ICU, and managing many more on other floors with lung and breathing issues, keeps them extremely busy.
I asked Marvin if he was afraid of contracting the virus himself since he is working with COVID patients every day. He said, “Absolutely. I worry about it all the time. I’m 64 after all! But it doesn’t stop me from going to work, and I push it out of my mind the minute I walk in the hospital door.”
When asked about how COVID compares to the other respiratory diseases he has come across in his 33 years of practice, he said, “This is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. This virus has no rules and it scares the hell out of me. We cannot predict its path - you think it’s going in one direction, and then all of a sudden it goes another. People think that only the elderly or those with comorbidities are at risk.” He went on to explain how untrue that is, and that he has even ventilated young, healthy adults.
Marvin worked through the last pandemic – when H1N1 was circulating and said, looking back, that pandemic was so much easier. With COVID, “our small hospital in Prince Albert has never seen so many ventilated patients at one time.” He explained how hard it is on the mental health of staff when they want a patient to get well so badly, and they are not. When he described their long days, it sounded like a war zone. The feeling of being emotionally drained and physically exhausted at the end of each day only to come in tomorrow to find more sick people needing help to breathe. It’s a battle each day, he says. Thankfully, mental health supports are available for the staff through the SHA, but as Marvin says, “Often you are so stretched for time you are simply in ‘survival mode.’” He says being able to handle stress and pressure is a vital skill for respiratory therapists and all front line staff since it is a regular occurrence on the best of days. And on the worst of days such as during this pandemic, it’s the only way to make it through.
Aside from Covid-19, we also learned how critical respiratory therapists are to our sick babies in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Pediatrics and neonatal care also require Marvin’s expertise and knowledge. Many fragile newborns born at the Victoria Hospital require a respiratory therapist by their side for the first hours and days of their life since the lungs are the last major organ to mature in newborn babies. In November of 2018, premature triplets were born at the Victoria Hospital and they survived only because of the amazing work of our nursing, pediatric, and respiratory therapist teams. This is what we mean when we say, “it takes a village.”
Marvin explained one of the hardest parts of his job is wanting to be at the bedside of each patient who needs him. Unfortunately, like everything else, respiratory therapists must prioritize and manage the crises as each one presents itself. Being pulled in different directions is one of the greatest challenges they face, so prioritizing becomes critical. Without being able to determine who needs their help most urgently, someone will most certainly face death.
What makes Marvin happy at work? Interacting with his colleagues, getting to know some of his patients and most of all seeing them survive and return home to their loved ones.
As a front line worker, Marvin recently received his first vaccination and is looking forward to his second shot. In the meantime, he will continue to be at the bedside of those who need the help only a respiratory therapist can provide.
On behalf of the Victoria Hospital Foundation and our entire community, we would like to thank and celebrate the ongoing skill and dedication of Marvin and all our respiratory therapists at the Victoria Hospital.
Perilous times often illuminate the heroes we never knew existed, and for that, we are all eternally grateful.
By Sherry Buckler|Victoria Hospital Foundation
The Victoria Hospital Foundation is thrilled to announce a major gift of $50,000 from the Northern Lights Community Development Corporation toward our NICU for the North campaign. The campaign gift brings our new fundraising total to $677,000.00 toward the 2.5M goal for new equipment and technology for the expanded NICU set to open this fall.
On behalf of the NLCDC and we are proud to invest in the health of our community and in particular, our most fragile newborns born at the Victoria Hospital. It is important to us to ensure that babies born in our communities, remain as close to home as possible, while receiving the highest standard of care. Our organization’s goal is to achieve healthy, prosperous and sustainable communities and we are proud to partner with the Victoria Hospital Foundation for such an investment in our future. Blake Charles, GM, NLCDC
The “Little Lives-Local Love” initiative was launched in the fall of 2020 kicking off a 2.5 million dollar, multi year campaign to raise money to equip and furnish the new NICU at the Victoria Hospital for every mother and newborn in the north.
The entire NICU project which includes the 2018 construction campaign and the current equipment campaign, is a total 5 million dollar investment into the healthcare of our newborns. The NICU for the North is 100% funded by the Victoria Hospital Foundation with the support of their local community.
“We are honoured and grateful to the Prince Albert Grand Council and the members of the NLCDC for their generous gift to our NICU. Keeping our most fragile babies and their families close to home, is a goal that unites us all and allows us to share a common vision for all families in the north—to ensure that our hospital can always deliver the best healthcare possible for our babies and children.” Sherry Buckler, CEO Victoria Hospital Foundation
Fundraising for the NICU continues. For more information or to donate to the campaign, please visit helpthevic.ca, call 306-765-6105, or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
As always, 100% of your donation to the Victoria Hospital Foundation stays in our community for the benefit of patients and families here at home.
Contact:
Sherry Buckler, CFRE
Victoria Hospital Foundation|CEO
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(306)940-6787 phone
Blake Charles, General Manager
Northern Lights Community Development Corporation
306-953-7259 phone
Local healthcare, for our children, right here at home.
The Victoria Hospital Foundation, the Car Guys @ Mann Northway GM, and the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group are proud to announce the outstanding success of the 15th annual Give a Little Life Day Radiothon. The single-day, 12-hour radiothon was broadcast on three JPBG stations from 6 am—6 pm raising funds to equip the new NICU for the North at the Victoria Hospital in Prince Albert. The final total as of 6 pm on Friday, was $592,563.00 with donations still coming in online.
The “Little Lives-Local Love” initiative was launched this fall kicking off a 2.5 million dollar, multi-year campaign to raise money to equip and furnish the new NICU at the Victoria Hospital for every mother and newborn in the north.
The entire NICU project which includes the 2018 construction campaign and the current equipment campaign, is a total 5 million dollar investment into the healthcare of our newborns. The NICU for the North is 100% funded by the Victoria Hospital Foundation with the support of their local community.
“If there’s anything this pandemic has taught us, it’s that quality community-focused healthcare is more critical now than ever. We are humbled and grateful to our community for supporting this year’s fundraising effort. Keeping our most fragile babies and their families close to home, is our highest priority and our Foundation is committed to ensuring that our hospital can always deliver the best healthcare possible for our babies and children.”
Sherry Buckler, CEO Victoria Hospital Foundation
The Foundation thanks their 2020 presenting sponsor The Car Guys - Mann Northway GMC who announced an incredible gift of $72,000 to the campaign. In addition, Mann Northway also gave up one of their two drive-thru bays for the entire 12-hour event to provide a safe and contactless donation station for anyone wishing to donate in person.
“What an amazing and rewarding experience for everyone involved! We are so proud to be part of such an amazing and important cause. A huge success and thank you to everyone who donated and made an effort for our community.”
Mark Ripley, Dealer Principal|Mann Northway Prince Albert
Fundraising for the NICU continues. For more information or to donate to the campaign, please visit helpthevic.ca, call 306-765-6105, or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. As always, 100% of your donation to the Victoria Hospital Foundation stays in our community for the benefit of patients and families here at home.
Contact:
Sherry Buckler, CFRE
Victoria Hospital Foundation|CEO
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Prince Albert, SK
(306)940-6787 phone (306)765-6120 fax
Mark Ripley, Dealer Principal
Mann Northway Prince Albert
306-765-2200
Baby Benson BuckinghamOn June 5, 2020 my husband Jerad & I excitedly drove to the Victoria Hospital to be induced to have our first baby. The induction went as planned and I began to endure a very long labor. Two days later around 4:30 am, with no further progress, we decided with the OBGYN on call, that we were going to have a C-Section – the baby’s head was tilted, and we knew that it was going to be a large baby. Our baby boy was born at 5:07 am, he let out a big scream and a pee, then he turned blue. The nurses whisked him away to the Nursery to begin working on him. We were told that Benson’s oxygen levels had depleted, so they had him hooked up to many machines under a heat lamp to monitor him. This was helping him with his breathing and reduce the “junk” in his lungs. I am very thankful for those nurses that day. We held his hand through the machines, IV lines and tubes that surrounded him. We spent as much time as we could in the Nursery but it was crowded, hot, and we had absolutely no privacy. At many points throughout our stay there was upwards of seven to nine babies having to use the Nursery. Every time we came in to visit Benson, it had been rearranged to accommodate more babies & more machines. The current space is made to accommodate four babies, which is being generous. I had to learn to nurse my baby in amongst many other families spending time with their babies. Many times, due to lack of privacy, and other mothers trying to nurse their babies, Jerad was unable to be in the Nursery with Benson. Thankfully, our stay in the Nursery/hospital only lasted 4 days. The doctors and nurses were second to none. Benson is now 5 months old, and he is thriving! When we found out that this years “Give A Little Life Day” was going towards machines for the new NICU for families that unfortunately have to use this service, Jerad and I both knew we had to do something to help. On Dec 4th, please donate for babies like Benson that need a little extra help.
An Opportunity to Change Neonatal Care In The North – Forever.
Listen LIVE Friday, December 4, 2020 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m on all three Jim Pattison Broadcast Group stations.
Head over to our Give A Little Life Day page to read all about this year's campaign to equip and furnish our new NICU
Congratulations to Cory Durand, one of the recipients of the M.Z. Hussain Memorial Scholarship Grants. She's using her grant towards her tuition for the pharmacy technician diploma.
Thank you to PA Pharmacy and the Ali family for sponsoring these grants in memory of Dr. Hussain.
Stay tuned for details of the next granting cycle.
Who says we can’t golf during a pandemic? The need for strong local healthcare is as critical as ever and we are thrilled to announce the annual ELGC fundraising golf tournament is going ahead this year – with a twist!
When you register and golf between July 1 and September 1, 2020 (maximum 144 golfers) at Emma Lake Golf Course, you will be able to participate in raising money for the residents in Long Term Care at Herb Bassett Home and Pineview Terrace. Funds raised from this event help to keep our new resident van on the road!
Proudly presented by Schaan Home Healthcare and Emma Lake Golf Course, the 9th Annual ELGC Vic Hospital Foundation Charity Classic is $150 per golfer or $600 for a team of four. Your registration fee includes:
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We hope you will join us at the lake this summer and golf to support our residents in Long Term Care. Thank you to Emma Lake Golf Course and Schaan Home Healthcare for making this event possible.
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In light of the March 13th communication from the Saskatchewan Health Authority and Chief Medical Health Officer restricting gatherings of over 250 people, we have no choice but to postpone our Doctor’s Gala scheduled for April 18th. The new date is to be determined based upon the recommendations of the SHA and Public Health.
The health and safety of our guests is paramount, and given that this gala is meant to celebrate our medical professionals, we feel it is our duty to protect our physicians and guests by strictly following the protocol as outlined by our chief medical officer. We wish to do our part to limit the spread of COVID-19 in our community.
We will be reaching out personally to each ticket purchaser, vendor, and sponsor in the coming days.
For more information:
Sherry Buckler|CEO
Victoria Hospital Foundation
(306)765-6105
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We are thrilled to hear from the Premier today, the exciting announcement of a new Victoria hospital in Prince Albert.
Our Foundation has enjoyed the trust of our community for the last 35 years. Since 1985, the Victoria Hospital Foundation has had no other mission but to fundraise and invest millions into local healthcare for the benefit of patients and families here at home.
Our Foundation has been expecting this announcement and as a result, we’ve been preparing internally for a major campaign. We recognize that a new healthcare facility will require a significant community contribution toward equipment and our Foundation is set to lead the effort. In that spirit, we’d like to announce a kick-off donation from our board and staff in the amount of $100,000.
In the meantime, we encourage our community to start thinking about how they would like to support and shape their new hospital and be part of a lasting legacy for their children and grandchildren. Soon, it will be time to truly “Help the Vic.”
Thank you to Premier Scott Moe and the Ministry of Health for recognizing and addressing the needs of our northern communities. It is a great day for healthcare in the north.
“With excitement and renewed hope, our Foundation looks forward to working with all of our donors, surrounding communities, the Ministry of Health, and the Health Authority to achieve what will be a significant leap for northern healthcare.”
Sherry Buckler, CEO, Victoria Hospital Foundation
“The Victoria Hospital Foundation is poised to lead a new hospital fundraising campaign with passion and confidence. Thank you to the Premier and the Health Ministry for this outstanding news which will result in expanded health care services across Northern Saskatchewan.”
Lyle Karasiuk, Board Chair,
Victoria Hospital Foundation Board of Directors
Your generous donations will support the Victoria Hospital Foundation’s work, providing funds for specialized equipment, innovative patient care services and upgrading of facilities and replacement of out-dated equipment.
The Victoria Hospital Foundation has as its mission to build awareness of and inspire investment in local health care and the well-being of the people of Prince Albert (SK) and surrounding communities.
Victoria Hospital Foundation
Box 3000 - 1200 24th Street W, Prince Albert, SK S6V 5T4 Canada
Phone: 1-855-816-LIFE or (306)765-6105
Fax: (306)765-6120
E-mail: info@helpthevic.ca