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Birth of a Life-Saving Program

Birth of a Life-Saving Program

Nov 8, 2021

The first patient to undergo open-heart surgery in Manitoba was a five-year-old boy from the community of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, on a chilly day in February 1959. The operation, to repair a small hole in the boy’s heart, took seven hours and was performed at St....
Raising spirits, raising funds

Raising spirits, raising funds

Oct 18, 2021

Foundation Board member Randy Viray presents a donation from his company’s annual golf tournament to Foundation President and CEO Karen Fowler. October 18, 2021 The St. Boniface Hospital community is not only generous but enterprising as well! From golfing and...
Supporting the sweetest gift of all

Supporting the sweetest gift of all

Sep 20, 2021

Cupcakes and community: NICU “graduates” and co-owners of Jenna Rae Cakes, twins Jenna Hutchinson (centre, left) and Ashley Kosowan (centre, right) chose St. Boniface Hospital’s NICU as the bakery’s community initiative of the month for August....
“More than classmates, they were like sisters”

“More than classmates, they were like sisters”

Aug 17, 2021

August 17, 2021 It was August 1958 and Ethel Hook – then a young woman of 18 – had just left the family farm and her small, tight-knit community in rural Manitoba to enrol in the St. Boniface Hospital School of Nursing in Winnipeg. “My mother, father, and aunt had...
Sister Gauthier’s Challenge

Sister Gauthier’s Challenge

Aug 17, 2021

August 17, 2021 Standards were high in the late sixties at the St. Boniface Hospital School of Nursing. Students enrolled in what was then a three-year diploma program were expected to put in the work, and no one made that clearer to them than Sister C. Gauthier,...