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WATERMELONS
ARE WE MAKING AN IMPACT?
WE LIKE TO THINK SO
SUPERHEROES
THE END... BUT NOT AT THE END
HOW DO YOU MEASURE IMPACT?
IT’S REALLY ABOUT PEOPLE
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CARE BEYOND BASICS
MAX-A-MILLION
DARING TO DREAM
DREAMS CAN COME TRUE
SO MANY WAYS
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SO WHAT’S WITH THE WATERMELONS?
THE POWER OF DARING TO DREAM
Many (hopefully all) of you will be familiar by now with our
“DARE TO DREAM” campaign, and will have seen our campaign and event materials featuring two young boys riding laundry hamper “cars”, wearing goggles and helmets made from watermelons.
We fell in love with the spirit and daring of these two would-be racers. They had a dream... no money perhaps... but a determination that regardless of obstacles they were going to do it, nothing was going to stop them.
That attitude symbolizes for us everything we’re about at the Health Foundation. We “DARE TO DREAM” every day. We ask our healthcare professionals what their dreams for health care in Medicine Hat, and in particular the Hospital, are... We ask the community what their dreams for healthcare in Medicine Hat are...
We ask the surrounding communities, for whom the Hospital is a vital service, what their dreams are... and then we dare to dream that we can make it happen. Along the way we ask you “DARE TO DREAM” with us... and you do... and with your donations many of these dreams come true.
If we collectively don’t “DARE TO DREAM” nothing will happen. When we do, we impact the lives of everyone. So we have adopted the watermelon helmets of our intrepid duo, as a symbol of “DARING TO DREAM”. A symbol of the power of not accepting things as they are, not listening when you’re told “you can’t do that”... “it’ll never work”... “do you have any idea how much that will cost”... and just plain “DARING TO DREAM”, and making it happen.
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Fortunately for us many of you share our dream and dare to support us... and for that we thank you from the tops of our watermelons... to the bottoms of our laundry baskets!
ARE WE MAKING AN IMPACT?
Last year the Medicine Hat &
District Health Foundation
raised
to help improve heath care in
our region.
This money has come entirely from generous supporters within our community. Medicine Hat and area people making a direct difference in their community.
Well, you gave it, and here are some of the things we’ve done with it...
By the way... THANK YOU
$666,600
TONOMETER
This new equipment tests eye pressure on patients who come through the Emergency Department. Prior to this device staff were required to freeze the patient’s eye before testing, but now that step is no longer required, vastly reducing discomfort to patients.
patients visit Emergency each year.
VIRUS TESTING TIME
DOWN FROM 3 DAYS
ENT MICROSCOPE
Patients undergoing ear, nose or throat surgeries, experience decreased surgical times and benefit from the power zoom and superior optics that this new theatre microscope provides our surgeons.
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WE LIKE TO THINK SO...
REID HINTZ - THERAPY CHAIR
Today Reid is a happy fun loving 5 year old, but when Reid was born, a month early, not breathing, and weighing only 4lbs, he was diagnosed with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita, and his mother Rebecca, was told that he would never be able to sit up on his own.
Reid has had 3 surgeries and has been attending therapy with Children’s Allied Health all of his young life. Just before Christmas the Health Foundation, with your donations, was able to get a therapy chair for Reid. Basically the chair vibrates and stimulates his circulation. Reid had always been extremely pale but with the chair he now has colour in his cheeks and ears, and colouring is now coming up his arms also.
The chair has helped Reid develop some finger dexterity and other mobility, he is able to kneel for much longer periods than previously, which is huge progress. Without the progress the chair has provided, further surgery was not seen as an option. But now everyone is daring to dream that perhaps more surgery could be beneficial.
ARE THERE REAL SUPERHEROS?
CAPTAIN HOPE TRIUMPHS
For years, Peter Hoeppner dressed up in a superhero costume and participated in marathons to raise funds for cancer research. Then ten years ago, Peter got unimaginable news, he had colon cancer.
While away at work in Texas, Peter had unexpectedly lost 30 pounds in less than three months. “I thought it was the food,” Peter recalls “there were two options, covered in gravy or deep fried and I didn’t like either”. When he returned home to Medicine Hat, he visited his family doctor who became concerned about the rapid weight loss. Peter was referred to a specialist who ordered tests including a colonoscopy. The test found that Peter had a tumour in his colon, and he was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. Immediately he was scheduled for surgery to remove the tumour at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital. Peter’s surgeon informed him that depending on the amount of colon that needed to be
removed, he could wake up with a colostomy bag that he would need for the rest of his life.
After surgery, Peter remembers waking up in his room in the hospital “I woke up and immediately patted my side, checking for the colostomy bag”. Realizing nothing was there, he felt relieved. Surgery went well and the tumour was removed. However, surgery was just the start of his fight against cancer. Discharged from the hospital, Peter returned home with a two month treatment plan, which included daily radiation and having to wear a chemotherapy pump twenty-four hours a day. The chemotherapy drugs had hardened his veins and Peter recalls the pain he felt every time he was poked with a needle but he persevered through treatment. He credits his positive attitude for helping him through saying, “don’t go into treatment thinking bad thoughts”. Peter’s optimism helped him take the treatments in stride and today his cancer is in remission. Peter reflecting back on his experience says “Stay positive. Always stay positive”.
Peter’s advice is to experience life in the present “go do stuff, stuff you should’ve done years ago”. This January will mark ten years of Peter’s fight against cancer. Peter is staying true to his advice, he is flying to Australia for a cruise to view the Great Barrier Reef and visit friends.
As for his superhero days, when asked what superhero he would represent in future
marathons his answer was clear “Captain H.... H representing hope”.
Thanks to donors like you, Peter was able to have his surgery in Medicine Hat. The Greatest Needs fund has supported several types of surgical scopes helping patients like Peter.
SOMETIMES IT’S ABOUT HOW THE STORY ENDS
WHEN THE TIME COMES
When Tony was diagnosed with Parkinson’s and his wife Bea with dementia, they were unable to care for themselves. Following a tragic period of elder abuse in Edmonton, the couple were brought to Medicine Hat by their family and entered into Home Care where - according to Tony’s sister, Sister Vicky - everything changed for the better.
Upon arriving in Medicine Hat, the couple were assessed and given the care they so desperately needed, including moving Bea to Medicine Hat Regional Hospital’s Psych Ward and Tony to Meadowlands, then Meadow Ridge. All along the way, Sister Vicky tells about the care Tony and Bea received. “Medicine Hat’s health care is so different than anywhere else I have seen,” explains Sister Vicky, who has spent decades in the Sisters of Charity of Saint-Louis and is a retired school teacher. “They truly have a heart for patients. They often eat and hang out with the patients and make it feel like a home.” Perhaps most importantly, Sister Vicky notes that Medicine Hat provided Tony the opportunity to die a good death. “Tony was very happy in Medicine Hat. He died in peace and I was able to be with him. We sang songs and I was able to tuck him into Heaven.” Bea is still being cared for in Medicine Hat and is “happy as a clam” according to Sister Vicky.
End of life is an important time for families as it brings closure and hopefully offers a sense of peace. Sister Vicky continues to feel the compassion from those caring for her sister-in-law and can see how happy she is.
Your donations to the Medicine Hat and District Health Foundation help support families like Sister Vicky’s, allowing them to die with dignity when the time comes. Death is an important part of life and the Health Foundation in conjunction with the community has developed a support system to be proud of.
PORTABLE X-RAY MACHINE
Now when a patient can’t get to Diagnostic Imaging... Diagnostic Imaging comes to the patient. Invaluable in the operating theatre.
THANKS TO EVERYONE
WHO HELPED
MAKE THIS MOBILE
X-RAY MACHINE
THE GIFT OF TIME
Gregor Markie is nine years old and suffers from epilepsy. He was diagnosed seven years ago. He has had multiple MRIs, EEGs (sleep deprivation, 24 hour, and regular), sees a neurologist, a headache specialist (due to his
migraines), and a neuroscientist.
Until recently, all these tests meant trips to Calgary. The trips are grueling on Gregor and on his family. His dad works out of town, so often his mom has driven him the 3.5 hours to Calgary on her own. It’s a stressful trip. Time off work... hotel rooms... eating out...
the expenses add up.
Sleep deprivation EEGs are required in order to detect when the seizures are occuring. They deliberately put him under stress. i.e. Keep him awake until midnight, let him sleep four hours, then go to the hospital hook him up to the machine, keep him awake until 10 or 11, make him sleep, wake him up abruptly to strobe lights... all to
HOW DO YOU MEASURE IMPACT?
Gregor is not the only one who is sleep deprived by the end of it. His parents stay awake with him, by his side, through it all. After a day and night of testing, they then make the drive back to Medicine Hat.
As Becky says, often the drive is really sad. “You’re processing everything, you’re exhausted. Your child is exhausted and overwhelmed. All you want to do is put on pjs, close the blinds, order pizza, and be done. You want to cuddle your scared confused child. But instead you look in the rear view mirror at him while you drive, exhausted, and say “Don’t worry sweetie, only two more hours until we’re home.”
One time Becky pulled to the side of the road, got into the back seat with him, and watched a bit of a movie, just so she could have some time to hold him.
As Becky describes, having a child with an illness, especially an invisible one, is a lonely journey.
One time, Gregor’s EEG was scheduled for Christmas Eve. They did the gruelling journey and hotel room stay in Calgary. They were so exhausted, they stopped in Strathmore and ate their Christmas Eve dinner at McDonalds.
Having access to services in Medicine Hat has
changed the Markie family’s lives. The gift it has given them is time... family time, to be with each other. Seven hours back, to a family with a child with a health issue is a lot, and it helps relieve that burden of heartache.
Donations to the Health Foundation bought an EEG machine that Gregor, and others, can access right here in Medicine Hat. Other new services include doctor appointments by teleconference, and having a specialist come to Medicine Hat that they previously drove to Calgary for.
WE BUY STUFF... BUT IT’S REALLY ABOUT PEOPLE
The things we buy with your donations
are just things. It’s the lives that are
made better, healthier, happier
through those things that matter.
We’re showing you some of things we
buy, but it’s the stories of the people
whose lives are changed where the
impact actually occurs...
EEG MACHINE
Electroencephalograms or EEG’s are used to evaluate brain disorders most commonly for Epilepsy. This is a new service to Medicine Hat and will help reduce trips out of our community..
$1,100,000
RAISED THROUGH DONATIONS
TO HELP EQUIP THE NEW WING
BOOM BOOM DOUBLE IMPACT
VERSATILE HEMODIALYSIS TREATMENT
Dee Manning lives with Type 1 Diabetes and CIDP which stands for Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy. She’s had it for the past 30 years. With the disease comes significantly decreased dexterity through the appendages as it weakens the arms and legs and makes the simple act of grabbing an object a strenuous task. Dee’s condition worsened and she has been diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease and now undergoes Dialysis through Kidney Care.
It takes about 5 hours to totally hook up to the dialysis machine and Dee needs to do it 3 days a week, so she’s spending about 15 hours a week filtering her blood. “I see nurses more than my husband” says Dee as she’s receiving her treatment.
Her husband Mick, 62, works full time.
Kidney Care also has a Home Hemodialysis Program where patients have the opportunity to continue treatment in their own homes. Currently only 12% of the patients are on the Home Hemodialysis Program.
Patients are required to hook themselves up to the Dialysis machine every night and receive daily treatment. With daily treatments, dietary regimes becomes less strict as toxins in the blood are filtered out more often. However, this treatment is not suitable for everyone as the dialysis machine itself is 2ft x 2ft x 5 ft tall taking significant space in the home not including water storage units that are required and all the medical supplies needed.
Kidney Care recently received a new bed and chairs with adjustable lengths for taller patients. The electric chairs are able to go into a head down, feet up position to better circulate blood flow. The Renal Program also has therapy bikes, provided through the Health
Foundation, that patients can use to not only get the blood pumping, but also make use of their treatment time to work up a sweat and stay fit.
Patients are required to hook themselves up to the Dialysis machine every night and receive daily treatment. With daily treatments, dietary regimes becomes less strict as toxins in the blood are filtered out more often. However, this treatment is not suitable for everyone as the dialysis machine itself is 2ft x 2ft x 5 ft tall taking significant space in the home not including water storage units that are required and all the medical supplies needed.
Kidney Care recently received a new bed and chairs with adjustable lengths for taller patients. The electric chairs are able to go into a head down, feet up position to better circulate blood flow. The Renal Program also has therapy bikes, provided through the Health
Foundation, that patients can use to not only get the blood pumping, but also make use of their treatment time to work up a sweat and stay fit.
THERAPY BIKES
Kidney dialysis patients spend on average 12 hours a week in a chair for treatment. Therapy bikes enable them to safely exercise during treatment.
Dee is fortunate that she can receive her treatment either in the hospital or at home with her family and still get the best care possible. Her husband Mick recently trekked 100km in the Kidney March that he arduously trained for with their Labrador Molly. “I was very, very proud of him” Dee said as Mick crossed the finish line.
936
hours spent biking this year
CARE BEYOND THE BASICS
DENISE - PASCAL EYE LASER
Denise Dogterom has a potentially blinding condition – known as diabetic retinopathy/macular edema – where bleeding occurs in her retina. The condition is linked to her Type 1 diabetes – and is now able to be treated here in Medicine Hat thanks to new state-of-the-art equipment: the Pascal Eye Laser.
“The procedure is painless and doesn’t take as long as before,” Dogterom says. The Pascal Eye Laser, joining two other
machines in Alberta, arrived at the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital Retina Clinic in June and is treating people with severe retinal conditions.
Spearheading the purchase of this specialized equipment is Dr. Ripan Chaudhary, an Alberta Health Services ophthalmologist and retinal specialist. “The laser is useful for patients suffering from diabetes because this innovative tool helps treat two of the three leading causes of blindness: diabetic retinopathy/macular edema (a spot near the retina that becomes swollen due to fluid build-up) and retinal vascular occlusion (blockage or closing of a blood vessel)”.
Diabetes is a condition in which the body processes carbohydrates incorrectly due to poor insulin
production, which leads to a build-up in the blood of sugars known as glucose. This build-up can cause destruction of the small blood vessels in the retina as well as organs, including kidneys, heart and the extremities.
In Dogterom’s case, the laser is able to stop the bleeding in her retina by precisely treating the bleeding blood vessels. Funding for the purchase of the laser came from
MAX-A-MILLION TRAINING DUMMY SimMan3 or “Max-A-Million” as he’s become known in the Hospital is an adult patient simulator who delivers the most realistic training possible, right down to light sensitive pupils and bodily fluid excretion... it doesn’t get much more real than that.
DARING TO DREAM - CHILDREN’S ALLIED HEALTH
JAXSON GRAHAM - I CAN DO IT
Jaxson Graham is a strong little one-year-old with an ‘I can do it’ attitude that’s helping him tackle physical and mental challenges since he was born last April with Down Syndrome. Luckily, he has Children’s Allied Health on his side. Children’s Allied Health provides therapeutic toys and equipment funded through the Medicine Hat & District Health Foundation.
Kaitlan Braden, a physiotherapist at the hospital, has been working with Jaxson since last October. “Jaxson’s initial assessment found delayed gross motor skills typical in children with Down Syndrome,” Braden says. “He’s just like the rest of us, but reaches some developmental milestones a little later than average.” Down Syndrome is a lifelong condition caused by a chromosomal abnormality prior to birth. It is associated with physical and mental delays which can range from minor to severe, as well as characteristic facial features.
According to the Canadian Down Syndrome Society, about 1 in 800 babies is born with Down Syndrome.
Jaxson’s mom, Alex Graham, and her wife, Holly, adopted the little boy two months after he was born and says she’s pleased with the help her son is getting. “There are so many bright, colourful toys at Children’s Allied Health,” says Alex, 28. “We put the toys just out of Jaxson’s reach at first to encourage him to reach out and grab them.”
Bursting with satisfaction, Alex watches Jaxson doing his exercises. “He’s so cute when he sits on the ‘red peanut,’ an air-filled ball that looks like a peanut. It fits him well and is more comfortable for him while he strengthens his core muscles and gains stability,” she says. Braden says Jaxson has poorer muscle tone because of his condition, but he was weaker than normal due to a five-week hospitalization last July. “Jaxson had heart surgery to correct a congenital heart defect, so it delayed him a little longer getting started with his therapy,” says Braden.
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Physiotherapy equipment is really important for Jaxson – and kids like him – because it keeps him engaged and supports his progress and success. For example, he may be using one of our pediatric walkers soon to promote walking,” says Braden. Jaxson will be visiting Children‘s Allied Health until he’s 18, working on different developmental challenges like speech and fine motor skills. We couldn’t be happier having such great equipment and staff behind us and rooting for his success.”
Heather Bach, Executive Director of the foundation, is happy the foundation is there for kids like Jaxson. “I’m really pleased that our community in stepping forward to help fund Children‘s Allied Health, and hope to continue doing so,” Bach says. “Helping Children‘s Allied Health and the children that need to attend the Hospital is an
example of our strong community support system.” “
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Over the past two years,
more than
in funding from the
Medicine Hat & District
Health Foundation
has been invested in
Children’s Allied Health.
$12,000
referrals to Children’s Allied Health every year
LIKE LEAVING THE HOSPITAL, BUT NOT
Valene Jordheim arrived at the hospital gravely ill with a fever of 40C, pains in her belly and extremely disoriented. Shortly thereafter daughter Olivia was born by emergency C-section. Olivia started life in intensive care, born six weeks premature and weighing in at slightly more than four pounds. “I had nothing for her other than a pair of socks that pretty much covered her whole leg,” said mom Valene.
Four days after Olivia was born, on February 10, Jordheim was discharged. “But I couldn’t go home and leave my baby,” says Jordheim. “I told the nurses I’d sleep in the hall and wouldn’t bother anybody.” But the nursing staff at had a better idea. “They gave us a ‘home’ in the family room of the Maternal Child Unit, all nicely furnished and complete with a bed, TV, fridge, microwave, room for a crib; everything my family needed so we could be together,” says Jordheim.
The family room is used by families when their children must stay in the hospital for an extended length of time.
DREAMS CAN COME TRUE
Omnibeds provide easy access to newborns at critical times.
They are a state-of the-art equipment which provide premature and critically ill babies with a controlled, stress-reduced environment, much like that of a mother’s womb.
They help regulate body temperature and features humidity control to avoid moisture loss through thin skin.
The OmniBed has a mattress that can be rotated 360 degrees and large drop down doors providing quick and easy access to the baby from both sides. The beds have a built-in scale for weighing and an unobtrusive x-ray tray if scans are required.
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NEW OMNIBEDS
THANKS
EVERYONE WHO
DONATED TO THE
HEALTH FOUNDATION
Ethan was an NICU patient who needed the CPAP breathing machine and this radient infant warmer
SPECIAL CARE REQUIRED FOR PREMATURE BABIES At 28 weeks pregnant with twins, Trish Helman was trying to catch up on rest in her home in Crescent Heights. She started to feel some mild cramps but nothing too painful. Initially, Trish didn’t think much of it. Maybe it was new mom nerves or the fact that her husband was out of town, but Trish decided to go to the Maternity Clinic to get checked out. The doctor on duty examined Trish and to her surprise, informed her that she was in labour. There was no time to waste; the twins were on their way. A team from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit rushed in to prepare for the twins who were twelve weeks premature.
Trish’s tiny boys, Hayden and Hunter quickly arrived and the air ambulance rushed them to hospital in Calgary. Hayden and Hunter weighed less than three pounds each.
Trish followed and spent weeks staying in hotels until the boys were able to be transferred to the Hospital in Medicine Hat.
They required feeding tubes and medical care twenty-four hours a day in special incubators called OmniBeds. Trish spent every day at the Hospital, holding her boys for as long as possible. She went home only to eat and sleep. “I can’t say enough good things about the nurses” says Trish. “They really love what they do and work hard to make the NICU feel like home.”
After months of care, Hayden and Hunter headed home. There were many follow up appointments ahead but they were able to receive their care in Medicine Hat and not have to repeatedly travel to Calgary.
Thanks to your donations the Omnibeds necessary for Hunter and Hayden to survive were on hand and ready in the NICU.
THERE ARE ON AVERAGE 1,100 BABIES BORN IN
SPECIAL CARE REQUIRED FOR PREMATURE BABIES At 28 weeks pregnant with twins, Trish Helman was trying to catch up on rest in her home in Crescent Heights. She started to feel some mild cramps but nothing too painful. Initially, Trish didn’t think much of it. Maybe it was new mom nerves or the fact that her husband was out of town, but Trish decided to go to the Maternity Clinic to get checked out. The doctor on duty examined Trish and to her surprise, informed her that she was in labour. There was no time to waste; the twins were on their way. A team from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit rushed in to prepare for the twins who were twelve weeks premature.
Trish’s tiny boys, Hayden and Hunter quickly arrived and the air ambulance rushed them to hospital in Calgary. Hayden and Hunter weighed less than three pounds each.
Trish followed and spent weeks staying in hotels until the boys were able to be transferred to the Hospital in Medicine Hat.
They required feeding tubes and medical care twenty-four hours a day in special incubators called OmniBeds. Trish spent every day at the Hospital, holding her boys for as long as possible. She went home only to eat and sleep. “I can’t say enough good things about the nurses” says Trish. “They really love what they do and work hard to make the NICU feel like home.”
After months of care, Hayden and Hunter headed home. There were many follow up appointments ahead but they were able to receive their care in Medicine Hat and not have to repeatedly travel to Calgary.
Thanks to your donations the Omnibeds necessary for Hunter and Hayden to survive were on hand and ready in the NICU.
Since her early years, Margaret Hobson was introduced to volunteerism as a way of life. As a teenager living in Yorkshire, she spent her Sundays at the hospital with her father, helping patients through their daily routines, such as feeding.
“That kept up until I reached a certain age and had to get a real job,” she explains, with false emphasis on the word ‘real.’ To her, volunteering is a job that provides every bit of value to life and community as anything that is attached to a paycheque. After emigrating to Canada with her husband and two young children in 1967, Margaret worked until retirement in 1991. “I spent the first six months or so at home with my feet up,” recalls Margaret. “Then one day my husband came home from work and said ‘you have to get out of the house!’” She found the Auxiliary Association shortly after and talked to her neighbour, who was working on starting a new Gift Shop in the Medicine Hat Hospital. It turned out the Gift Shop had a full roster of volunteers so Margaret was happy to help Alzheimer’s patients at the hospital until a gift shop position opened up.
“I spent my whole working life in retail so the gift shop was a really great place for me to be” Margaret says today. Before she knew it, she was the Auxiliary Association Gift Shop Chairperson, responsible for ordering and merchandise. From there, she spent six years as the Auxiliary Association President and a total of twenty-five years with the charitable group. “In my first year with Auxiliary, we donated a few thousand dollars. In the hospital’s centennial year, 1989, we donated $100,000.” In total, Margaret estimates that she and her group of dedicated volunteers donated over one million dollars to the Medicine Hat Health Foundation through the Gift Shop, raffles, fundraising teas and other initiatives. Those funds purchased several beds for the
Intensive Care Unit and hospital proper, as well as needed support for NICU and other items identified by the Health Foundation.
SO MANY WAYS TO MAKE AN IMPACT
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Over time, the Auxiliary Association numbers declined and the fundraising activity became harder to undertake for the ambitious, but aging group. The Gift Shop – which continues to be an important revenue generator – was handed over to the Health Foundation in 2010. The Auxiliary Association – with only five total members ranging in age between 70 and 92 – disbanded in November 2015.
But even with the disbandment, Margaret and her group have not slowed down. Two of them volunteer one shift per week at the Gift Shop. For her, volunteering is a way to stay young, active and helpful. “I enjoy people.
Regular customers and long-term patients visit often and seem to appreciate being asked how they’re doing.” For Margaret, a lifetime of volunteering is not yet over. “I’m going to keep doing this until I can’t drive anymore,” she laughs. Giving so much time to the Health Foundation is something she is happy to do, and encourages others to do the same.
When you volunteer, sometimes it’s appreciated and sometimes it’s not...
But that’s not why you do it. You do it because it’s a good thing to do.” -
MARGARET HOBSONOver time, the Auxiliary Association numbers declined and the fundraising activity became harder to undertake for the ambitious, but aging group. The Gift Shop – which continues to be an important revenue generator – was handed over to the Health Foundation in 2010. The Auxiliary Association – with only five total members ranging in age between 70 and 92 – disbanded in November 2015.
But even with the disbandment, Margaret and her group have not slowed down. Two of them volunteer one shift per week at the Gift Shop. For her, volunteering is a way to stay young, active and helpful. “I enjoy people.
Regular customers and long-term patients visit often and seem to appreciate being asked how they’re doing.” For Margaret, a lifetime of volunteering is not yet over. “I’m going to keep doing this until I can’t drive anymore,” she laughs. Giving so much time to the Health Foundation is something she is happy to do, and encourages others to do the same.
CARDIAC STRESS TESTING EQUIPMENT New equipment, treadmill, chairs, and computer system, to replace the old outdat-ed equipment that was currently in use. The system offers advanced analysis of risk prediction, functional response and
provides clinicians with additional insights to make better treatment decisions for patients.
The Cardiac chairs are a great addition as they provide a safe place for patients to recover after their test. It is not uncommon for patients to feel light headed after their exertions. Prior to receiving the chairs, staff had to throw a sheet on the floor and have the patient lay on if they felt light headed.
CONTACT
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CHARITABLE REGISTRATION #
Medicine Hat & District Health Foundation
Canada Revenue Agency Business Number:
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