Your Support Provides Comfort
We are deeply thankful for community support, which has funded the purchase of items including fridges and art-hanging systems for each patient room, a tea cart with food items and beverages served to families by volunteers, an Art Cart brought to patients that allows them to choose art to display in their rooms, and software advancements to the virtual window in our spa room, where patients can enjoy the healing sights and sounds of nature while in the whirlpool bath. We also were able to purchase items for our family day rooms and kitchen, including lamps, children’s toys, coffee and condiments, and a new piano for patient and family use.
Funds were recently raised for a Vocera paging system, a real-time voice communication system designed to keep mobile healthcare staff connected within the Hospital. This system will be installed in the coming year. Community donations created the Palliative Care Education Fund to support training and education for end-of-life caregivers and advanced important endowments to support holistic palliative care staffing and programming at St. Paul’s Hospital, the Hospice at Glengarda, and in the surrounding community. This year, St. Paul’s Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation served as lead sponsors for the Saskatchewan Hospice Palliative Care Conference hosted on June 9th and 10th at the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon. Titled “Medicine for your Mind, Body and Soul,” the conference welcomed over 250 participants from across Canada and featured an impressive lineup of keynote speakers including Dr. Harvey Chochinov, Dr. Srini Chary and our own Dr. Vivian Walker. Dr. Walker serves as a SHA Palliative Care physician, a St. Paul’s and Hospice MD leader, and sits on the SPH Foundation Board of Directors.