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Your present has changed their future

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This article was published 06/09/2024 (385 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

At Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba, we share our immense gratitude and pride for our dedicated community of support and celebrate the incredible impact of the five-year Better Futures campaign on child health and pediatric research.

We are very grateful for how community can help create success. We at the Foundation have seen incredible support over the past five years from people wanting to #GiveBetterFutures to kids who need care and services at HSC Children’s Hospital. Because of donors like you, we have seen many focus areas of the Better Futures campaign either complete, in progress, or being prepped to get started.

This donor driven fundraising effort has been possible thanks to unwavering support of many generous community members. Our campaign co-chairs, Nancy Cipryk and Kirsten McConnell, and honourary chairs Gerry and Barb Price, have also helped lead our community to this amazing accomplishment.

Here are a few impacts of donor gifts:

• New Travis Price Children’s Heart Centre (funded and operational) supporting 6,000 kids a year needing cardiac care in Manitoba
• New Paul Albrechtsen Catheterization Diagnostic Lab (funded and operational) with equipment to evaluate several heart conditions
• New Fluoroscopy Diagnostic Lab unit with state of art Fluoroscopy Machine (funded and operational)
• Remote monitored beds and infrastructure (fully funded, partially operational)
• Child & Adolescent mental health playspace (outdoor) (funded and operational) and (indoor) (funded and construction underway)
• Indigenous Community Healing Space (Phase 1 funded) to provide families with a safe space for healing while they’re away from their home community and cultural supports
• Leading-edge pediatric research at Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba in areas like diabetes, mental health, pediatric oncology, autism and more
• Critical equipment like Babyleo incubators for tiny babies who need the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Hoyer lifts to safely move patients in hospital
• Innovative programs like the Speech & Language Therapy Day Camp for kids living with craniofacial differences

These transformations in child health care are all thanks to the generosity of our community, creating meaningful change for families who need Manitoba’s only children’s hospital. On behalf of the Foundation team and the families we serve – we thank you! Your present has changed their future.

We know the work is far from done – with HSC Children’s being one of the oldest children’s hospitals in Canada, it requires ongoing renovations and new equipment to keep up the excellent care kids need. There are also many more breakthroughs in pediatric health that our researchers can find for kids.

But for this moment, we celebrate how Better Futures donors are transforming child health care and research.

To view the complete list of Better Futures impacts visit goodbear.ca/betterfuturesnews.