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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...
A world of difference for very ill newborns
Dr. Yasser El-Sayed (right) receives Duhamel Award honorarium from Karen Fowler, St. Boniface Hospital Foundation President & CEO. June 16, 2023 It was only fitting this year’s recipient of the Ronald J. Duhamel Innovation Award (Duhamel Award) could not be on...
Mother praises video app that connects parents with babies in NICU
May 9, 2023 What started as a pilot project two and half years ago is now a popular app that keeps parents connected with their babies staying in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Boniface Hospital. vCreate Diaries is a secure video app that allows neonatal...
Counting the Little Blessings
April 24, 2023 Terry Dokken started in the kitchen at St. Boniface Hospital before finding her calling as a Health Care Aide in the Palliative Care Unit. Her husband of 39 years, Tim, drove a bus with Winnipeg Transit. “Mom was the glue of the family and Dad was the...
Love of Science Takes Flight
March 24, 2023 If handling pigs’ hearts and sheep’s brains grossed them out, the smiles on their faces did not let it show. Four students from the remote community of Brochet in Northern Manitoba were introduced to authentic, hands-on science experiences in Winnipeg...
Donors and Hospital Staff Pay It Forward
Earl Barish, President, Salisbury House, with St. Boniface Hospital Foundation's Kate Yacula (at left) and Lisa Thomson Stifora (at right). March 20, 2023 After a long shift, a Nip Platter really hits the spot. St. Boniface Hospital staff and health-care heroes on...