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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...
Join us in support of a vital (C)PET Project
Over the next few weeks, Voice Logic, a well-respected firm with an excellent reputation, is making telephone calls to our valued donors on our behalf. We want you to know these calls are genuine and that all gifts support St. Boniface Hospital. June 11, 2021 St....
Meet the Foundation’s New Leader
All artwork in photos by Susan Turner, courtesy of the Buhler Gallery at St. Boniface Hospital. May 4, 2021 As St. Boniface Hospital Foundation’s new President and CEO, Karen Fowler says she wants to see more of the visible differences that donor support makes in the...
A Nurse Once and Always
May 3, 2021 St. Boniface Hospital Foundation donor Barbara McGregor is quick to share memories from her career as a nurse – many fond, some sad, all with the keen perspective of her 96 years. McGregor entered St. Boniface Hospital’s School of Nursing in...
A Plateful of Grateful
March 9, 2021 “Food equals gratitude.” Though not the official slogan for the partnership between MITT’s Culinary Arts and Design program and St. Boniface Hospital, the phrase captures the essence of a collaboration to support health-care workers on the front lines....