Stories
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that heals.
Comfort at Any Size
June 16, 2022 Plus-size patients at St. Boniface Hospital are further ensured safety, comfort, and dignity during their stays after a donation in 2021 helped purchase a suite of bariatric equipment last fall. Patients of more than 350 pounds require a bariatric...
A Place of Peace
June 16, 2022 The scents of sweetgrass and fresh paint mingle in the brand-new Indigenous Health (IH) rooms at St. Boniface Hospital. The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s IH program opened a new space at the Hospital in January 2022, made possible by Foundation...
Kidney care a family affair
March 10, 2022 For the past 20 months Samar Zeid has settled into a familiar routine at St. Boniface Hospital. Three times a week – Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays – a family member, sometimes her husband, Munther, brings her to St. B. She’ll head up to the fourth...
Notes of hope, healing, and gratitude
January 20, 2022 At St. Boniface Hospital Foundation we’re blessed to hear directly from donors and former patients. A recent roundup of notes shared with Hospital staff shows that whether it’s an experience in the NICU or the ICU, recovery from heart surgery or...
Say Yes to St. Boniface Hospital
January 6, 2022 Manitoba is about to mint a new millionaire. St. Boniface Hospital Foundation has announced the 2022 Mega Million Choices Lottery, with six Grand Prize choices for this year’s biggest winner, including homes in Winnipeg, St. Adolphe, and Brandon, a...
Birth of a Life-Saving Program
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
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 running...
Supporting the sweetest gift of all
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. September 20, 2021...
“More than classmates, they were like sisters”
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
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,...
150 for 150!
(From left) Carmine Militano, Chair, St. Boniface Hospital Foundation Board of Directors; Lorrie Kirshenbaum, Director, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences; Eric Lafreniere, Vice President & Head of Commercial Banking, National Bank; Ross Feldman, Medical...
Ready for Anything
July 9, 2021 One wants to travel, and one wants a dog. Registered nurses Stephanie Lajoie and Jeanelle Ramos are this year’s lucky recipients of the Wyrzykowski Family Graduate Nurse Endowment Fund. Both recent graduates – Lajoie from Université de Saint-Boniface and...