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A Family’s Legacy of Love
June 17, 2024 In leaving the largest-ever gift made by an individual to St. Boniface Hospital Foundation, Miriam Bergen followed the example set by her parents Martin and Ruth Bergen. Miriam, who died in January of 2022, left a $10 million bequest to the Hospital in...
Supporting Mental Health a Family Affair
June 12, 2024 After hearing about an increase in mental health issues treated at St. Boniface Hospital’s Emergency Department in recent years, and even seeing such issues in others close to them, the Correia family of Winnipeg decided to do what they could to help...
Making Dad Twice as Proud
The H & H Shah Family of Winnipeg are helping St. Boniface Hospital Foundation donors love and honour their own dads, granddads, and father-figures this Father’s Day by matching gifts to the Hospital. For the second year in a row Hemant M. Shah, wife Hina, and...
Changing Lives, Shaping Tomorrow
May 31, 2024 Even before she started her first nursing job at St. Boniface Hospital, Zoe Tetrault knew where she wanted to go with her new career. “I discovered during my studies that I have a passion for women’s health,” said Tetrault, who works in Labour and...
The Healing Power of Music
The healing power of music fills the halls of St. Boniface Hospital. Donor generosity allows musicians to orchestrate moments of comfort and joy for patients, staff, and visitors. Harmonious pieces echo through the Hospital several days per week as a team of four...
From Life, to Film, to Gallery Walls
May 13, 2024 A new art exhibition, on now at the Galerie Buhler Gallery in St. Boniface Hospital, looks at grief from an elderly woman’s perspective. Draw we are together is by local artists Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies. The duo based the exhibition on their...
A St. B Legacy of Love
The walls of St. Boniface Hospital’s Palliative Care Unit are brighter, thanks to Foundation donor Gina Lambert-Wery and her siblings, Lisa Hettrick and Trevor Lambert. A vibrant new mural, alive with memories from their mother and grandmother, stands as a tribute to...
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...