What We Do?
Advancing Patient Care
The Foundation works with Vancouver Coastal Health, the community, Squamish General Hospital and other healthcare locations, to identify equipment and special project needs not covered by the annual provincial or regional health budgets. With the valuable help of our donors, we raise essential funds to advance and enhance patient care in the Sea to Sky Corridor.
Keeping Health Care Local
The Squamish Hospital Foundation is deeply committed to its vision of ensuring the Sea to Sky community has access locally to high-quality, comprehensive healthcare.
Squamish General Hospital provides acute, community and primary health services to more than 270,000 residents in rural and urban settings living on the North Shore, in Sea-to-Sky Country, on the Sunshine Coast and in Powell River.
Supporting facilities throughout the Sea to Sky
Facilities under the Vancouver Coastal Health umbrella are Squamish General Hospital, Hilltop House, Sea to Sky Community Hospice, Community Health Offices, Squamish Mental Health and Substance Use Offices, The Sea to Sky Foundry, Whistler Medical Clinic and Pemberton Healthcare Center.
Did you know that the Squamish Hospital Foundation supports ALL these locations with funding support to the Sea to Sky community has access to local, high-quality, comprehensive healthcare?
SHF Strategic Plan
The Squamish Hospital Foundation is deeply committed to its vision of ensuring the Sea to Sky community has access locally to high-quality, comprehensive healthcare. The Foundation has been in existence since 1995 and has worked tirelessly towards this vision, constantly evolving to meet community needs. As our community continues to grow and change, it is imperative that the Foundation shift along with it. This bold 5-year strategic plan lays out the comprehensive plan for the Foundation to adapt to meet the needs of our community.
This strategic plan builds off of successful implementation of the 2015-2020 plan
It includes updated measures to increase our contribution to the healthcare community in the region. Through this plan we have refreshed our vision and mission, and have landed on operational statements to more effectively outline our contribution as a Foundation.
We are eager to continue building relationships with community members, healthcare partners, and donors who share a passion for improving the healthcare in our region, and we are committed to inspiring community support to advance the quality of local health services.
We will work hard to align our activities with these goals and to report on our progress towards achieving this strategic plan.
We have identified 6 overarching goals to prioritize over the coming five years:
Strategic Fundraising: Raise funds to meet immediate and long-term community health care needs.
Fund Allocation: Channel funds raised to meet the most vital community health needs in a timely and thoughtful manner.
Donor Stewardship: Recognize the vital contribution of donors and support pride and recommitment among them.
Relationship Building: Strengthen partnerships with key stakeholders in order to understand needs and streamline funding allocation.
Community Engagement: Strengthen the relationship with the community through awareness building and engagement.
Organizational Capacity: Build and strengthen organizational capacity for the Foundation.