Stories
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that heals.
Researcher helps develop compassion measurement tool
January 14, 2022 At a time when virtually all hospital patients and careresidents were and continue to be isolated from loved ones during the...
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,...
A message from Karen
St. Boniface Hospital celebrated its 150th anniversary this year, and the Foundation has shared many historical stories from the Hospital’s past,...
“Donors gave us hope that the system works”
Ashton Kitchur lay in Labour and Delivery at St. Boniface Hospital on a cold December night in 2019, only 28 weeks pregnant. A Neonatal Intensive...
Record breaking year for Radiothon
November 26, 2021 Talk about a record year! The Radiothon of Hope and Healing, presented by the Vickar Automotive Group in support of St. Boniface...
Healing body and spirit
Photo: Oai Truong November 11, 2021 For military veteran Paul Kennedy, St. Boniface Hospital was a tranquil harbour in a storm. “Some of us are...
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...
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....
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)...
“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...
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...
MRI experience makes lasting impression
July 19, 2021 Maury Bay has a discerning appreciation for the qualities of the human voice. From the enclosure of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)...
150 for 150!
(From left) Carmine Militano, Chair, St. Boniface Hospital Foundation Board of Directors; Lorrie Kirshenbaum, Director, Institute of Cardiovascular...
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...
The Father’s Day that Came Early
June 14, 2021 Tanner and Christel Harms, of Steinbach, welcomed their new son, Quincey Rowe Harms, into the world on Monday, May 31, at St. Boniface...