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that heals.
Your Support Keeps Innovation Beating
June 24, 2024 Your unwavering support fuels cutting-edge innovation and compassionate care within the Hospital’s walls. Albert McMurdie, of Winnipeg, felt that innovation and care firsthand when he made history by undergoing the first same-day transcatheter aortic...
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...
A Bad Day at the Office
February 15, 2024 Darlene Sorin, of Lockport, has a saying. “It’s never good to have a heart attack. But if you do have one, St. Boniface Hospital is the best place to be.” Her saying comes from experience, after she had a STEMI heart attack, the most serious kind, at...
Silver linings after atypical symptoms
January 16, 2024 Former St. Boniface Hospital patient Alex Fedorchuk learned that heart attacks don’t always look and feel like they do in movies. In March of 2022, Fedorchuk felt like he couldn’t get a big breath in. He noticed that for the past little while,...
When Your Need Is a Miracle
Sandy Conrad will never forget the Sunday afternoon last year when she found her husband of almost 50 years, Paul, unconscious and taking his last breaths on top of their bed. If it had not been for St. Boniface Hospital donors, his life might have ended then and...
Surviving SCAD
November 1, 2023 Patti LeBlanc, of Winnipeg, didn’t think that lifting a crockpot would send her into an ambulance. But on December 22, 2015, that’s just what happened. LeBlanc, 49, was loading up her car for a church potluck when she was hit with alarming sensations....
From heart attack recovery to marathon runner
October 10, 2023 While on a trek to Mount Everest base camp in 2006, Paul Bernardin, of Winnipeg, unknowingly experienced his first heart attack. He was just 49 years old. At an elevation of about 15,000 feet, Bernardin felt a sudden soreness in his jaw, arms, and...
“This can’t be a heart attack”
September 26, 2023 Slumped on a kitchen chair, Christie Klassen’s first thought was, “This can’t be a heart attack.” She was healthy and 39 years old. Her next thought was, “Please, God, don’t let Noah respond to this call.” Klassen lives with her husband and their...
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...
Second Chance at Life
March 20, 2023 “Paul, you are going to be here for the birth of your daughter. You are going to see your children grow up.” Paul Fontaine’s cardiologist said that to him in St. Boniface Hospital on the morning after Fontaine had his pacemaker put in to steady his...