This year, children’s hospitals across Canada continued to deliver vital treatment and care to sick and injured children while navigating the added demands of the ongoing pandemic, including urgent vaccination campaigns.
This year, children’s hospitals across Canada continued to deliver vital treatment and care to sick and injured children while navigating the added demands of the ongoing pandemic, including urgent vaccination campaigns.
As always, the work of children’s hospitals extended far beyond the walls of their own facilities. From advancing medical research to providing health guidance to schools and community organizations, strong hospitals benefit all young people — not just those who use the hospital directly.
Donor support helps hospital teams continue to make essential contributions to children’s health across a wide range of activities and communities. Thank you for being by our side as we go the distance for kids.
Young people have really been suffering during the pandemic. BC Children’s Hospital has been helping our patient population – as well as health care providers – build essential mindfulness skills for navigating this time.
Dr. Dzsung VO
Director of BC Children’s Hospital Centre for Mindfulness
Children’s hospital foundations in Canada collectively focus on three key areas of impact. In 2021, donors helped to drive numerous hospital initiatives in each area.
We don’t know where Aubrey would be without her medical team and the knowledge and technology they’ve been able to provide. We’re especially grateful for their support in helping her receive treatment at home, so our family can be together, rather than apart for months at a time
Kirstie
Mom of Aubrey, a four-year-old Stollery Children’s Hospital patient.
Our partners and donors contributed more than $53.8 million to children’s hospital foundations across Canada in 2021.
A new partner, the Thistledown Foundation, contributed $26 million this year — over and above the remarkable fundraising total achieved through our planned partnership efforts.
^ All 13 children’s hospitals used donor funds to upgrade facilities or equipment.
* Median number of languages into which hospitals translated clinically vetted materials.
Note: CCHF’s national statistics reflect input from 13 hospitals, each with its own data-gathering practices. All figures are carefully vetted for accuracy, but variations in reporting periods or other differences may sometimes lead to discrepancies, especially undercounts.
Being in hospital for long periods to receive cancer treatment, often in quarantine, can take a terrible toll on patients and families. Donor support has helped us acquire chemo pumps, letting more patients receive treatment at home. For kids with cancer, being at home with their toys, games, siblings and loving caregivers makes a hard road easier.
Oncologist Dr. Donna Johnston
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one community at a time.
Every dollar our partners raise in their communities stays right where it belongs: supporting sick and injured kids through their local children’s hospital.
These community efforts combine to make an enormous difference across the country, strengthening Canada’s entire network of pediatric hospitals.
I thank the team at Children’s Hospital Foundation (CHF) for being part of positive change and doing more than talk about reconciliation by taking reconciliACTION.
Rebecca Chartrand
Chair of the Indigenous Advisory Circle to CHF of Manitoba. Several children’s hospitals and CCHF member foundations partner or otherwise engage with nearby Indigenous communities and organizations.
The funds our partners raise locally always stay local, addressing needs and priorities close to home. We asked the 13 hospitals in the Canada’s Children’s Hospital Foundations network what their most urgent priorities are as they look to the future.
Here’s where they’re aiming to invest in 2022:
Pillar theme
Pillar theme
Pillar theme
Our research, enabled in part by donor funds, focuses on creating the best and most supportive conditions for women and families during pregnancy. This in turn promotes the healthy development of children in the first years of life, a period that affects lifelong heath.
Dr. Sylvana Côté
CHU Sainte-Justine researcher and psychologist
We’re here for kids because they need all of us.