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Connecting Hearts Beyond Transplants
Foundation donors are supporting the compassionate care St. B nurses deliver each and every day. To date, $116,357 has been granted towards initiatives that celebrate and recognize the incredible nursing staff at St. Boniface Hospital. Shari Barker is so much more...
How will you be remembered?
May 19, 2023 May is traditionally the time of year when talk turns to the impact of legacy giving. A special group of donors have blessed St. Boniface Hospital Foundation with their forethought and generosity. These individuals – members of our Legacy of Hope Society...
The Key to Compassion
March 18, 2024 Selling brownies and ice cream to hungry high school students is easy enough. It was even easier at Winnipeg’s Collège Miles Macdonell Collegiate when paired with a worthy cause. The school’s Key (Kiwanis Education for Youth) Community Service Club held...
You Gave Surgeons the Equipment of Tomorrow
March 4, 2024 Superman isn’t the only one with x-ray vision these days. You have made it possible for St. Boniface Hospital surgeons like Dr. Randy Guzman to get some of their clearest views yet inside the human body, using state of the art diagnostic imaging...
When your ‘everything’ depends on St. B
March 1, 2024 Dave and Lori Janeson are a couple who walk the walk when it comes to supporting their community. At St. Boniface Hospital, the Janesons witnessed firsthand the immense strain that the COVID-19 pandemic placed on the staff. Their family saw the tireless...
Art Goes Underground
January 16, 2024 Local artists have added a colourful new mural to the basement tunnel leading from St. Boniface Hospital to the McEwen Building, where mental health services are provided. Artists Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies were hired by Artists in Healthcare...
Access Credit Union Paves New Ground
The Emergency Department redevelopment campaign received a generous boost last week, thanks to Access Credit Union. The generous $100,000 gift will revitalize critical care when Manitobans need it most. The Emergency Department redevelopment will set a new standard in...
Improving the Emergency Experience
St. Boniface Hospital’s Emergency Department serves as the front door of the Hospital and, in many respects, the health-care system, says Dr. Harold Peters. Peters has worked as a physician in the Emergency Department at St. B since 2017. “The first impressions of...
Payworks Does Right by Women
October 19, 2023 Payworks, a Winnipeg-based national workforce management solutions provider, has made a gift of $125,000 in support of a women’s heart health research initiative at St. Boniface Hospital. Women’s health is an issue near and dear to the heart of...
A Better Way to Save Lives
St. Boniface Hospital Foundation donors have changed the way Cardiac Sciences St. Boniface Hospital performs some cardiac surgeries at St. Boniface Hospital, making them safer and dramatically reducing the number of infections and other complications in patients....
One Good Turn Deserves Another
July 12, 2023 St. Boniface Hospital nurse Melannie Teitsma knew she wanted to share her good fortune after she received one of three Wyrzykowski Family Graduate Nurse Awards this year. She turned around and donated $2,500 of it to Selah Place, a Christian charity in...
Breathing easier thanks to generous donors
June 28, 2023 Thanks to donors, cardiac and respiratory patients and staff at St. Boniface Hospital are benefitting from safer and more accurate testing, greater availability of testing, and improved clinical care. Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) equipment...