How we use your donations
Through 2019 and 2021 over $550,000.00 has been committed and funded by the Squamish Hospital Foundation to various departments at Squamish General Hospital and Hilltop House, Squamish Mental Health, Whistler Healthcare Center.
Communities working together:
The Squamish Hospital Foundation has committed $100,000.00 to the Whistler Healthcare Foundation, going towards the trauma room upgrades at the Whistler Healthcare Center.
Foundations working together to improve healthcare within our community!
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Some of the items YOU have helped the Foundation purchase for the Squamish General Hospital include:
CCHD Monitor— $3,829.00
CPAP Machine- $1,396.00
Dragger Jaundice Meter- $8,000.00
Surgical equipment and instruments for the OBGYN Program- $50,000
Active Wound Care System -$25,000
Upgrades to the nurse’s lounge -$1,100
Tono Pen- $5,000
Enflow Fluid Warmer -$1,600
Defibrillator- $25,000
Dental Equipment for Hilltop House -$5,700
six (6) Omnicell medication dispensing cabinets - $250,000.00
Fetal and Cardiac Monitor's -$50,000.00
“Ice booties and ice mittens” to aid in Oncology treatments -$190.00
Education funded to Squamish General Hospital to increase patient care:
Palliative Care Course- $700.00
BLS ACLS Course- $3,330.00
ECG Course- $1,500.00
ACORN Course (Acute Care of At Risk Newborn)- $10,000.00
Sexual assault forensic examinations course at BCIT- $4619.97
NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Provider) course- $1,500.00
“Countering Stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples” course attend by 3 palliative care staff- $913.00
Some of the items YOU have helped the Foundation purchase for Hilltop House include:
-Items are to enhance the comfort to residents-
Repositioning Slings $2,275
Universal Slings $2,970
ROHO Foam Base $2,000
Fall Mats $1,800
Spenko Mattress Pads $819
6 x Vital Signs Machines for Hilltop House $20,670.00 (Funding split with the Squamish General Hospital Auxiliary)
Some of the items YOU have helped the Foundation purchase for other VCH locations or health care services in the community:
$145,000.00 to the Sea-to-Sky Community Hospice and the capital cost of funding 4 palliative care hospice beds at Hilltop House.
Sea to Sky Community Hospice Society- $980.00 to fund the Pallium Canada – LEAP course ( Palliative Care Course)
$100,000 to the Whistler Healthcare Foundation to go toward the trauma room upgrade at the Whistler Healthcare Center.
Mental Health & Substance Use Portal- for VCH staff to use as a tool to assist in patient treatment. - $4,000- funding shared with 5 Coast Foundations- Squamish, Lions Gate, Powell River, Whistler, Sechelt.
$100,000 towards the capital campaign to the Foundry Sea to Sky.
$130,000 to be put into an investment account, wherein the interest would be provided to the Foundry for a period of five years, disbursed on an annual basis, to fund education programming
Foundry Sea to Sky.
Mountain Maternity – baby scale $1,300.00
