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!
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