28 Mar Loan Cupboard – Sunshine Coast Healthcare Auxiliary
03 Mar Examining More Closely: Sechelt Hospital gets a new portable x-ray machine!
Sometimes when a patient is unable to be transported, their health care team needs to do an x-ray exam wherever they are in Sechelt Hospital. Last year, over 13,500 x-ray exams were performed on patients at Sechelt Hospital; over 1,000 of those exams required portable x-ray assistance. Medical Imaging currently provides portable x-ray exams...
01 Feb Paving Strong Neighbourly Relations
While celebrating the birth of their second child at Sechelt Hospital, Joe and Mandi Marino gazed out the window and across the parking lot to their new store, Marino’s Independent Grocer. A lot had happened for their young family between September and December of 2021; from buying a business and moving...
03 Nov Sechelt Hospital Celebrates a New Arrival
Thanks to a gift from a donor’s will, the Sechelt Hospital Foundation quickly approved a request for funding to replace an aging ultrasound machine in Sechelt Hospital’s Medical Imaging Department. As specified by the estate’s executor, the donor wished to have the funds go to ‘support capital equipment for the...
17 Jun Gift Inspired by Other Donors
Jane McOuat Farrer, together with her personal doctor, Dr. Joerg Jaschinski, and her friend, Dr. Ron Mundy, honoured her late husband’s memory at a moving, safely distanced meeting, at the Sechelt Hospital Foundation offices. Jane donated a significant gift to be dedicated to supporting “what the community needs”: expanded surgical services...
26 May More Reasons to Stay on the Coast
The Sechelt Hospital Foundation continues to receive generous support for local health care resources, the most recent coming from Jason Wubs, CEO of Westland Insurance and Jeff Wubs, Founder. The two shared their family’s and organization’s commitment to supporting health care in the communities where Westland operates its insurance business....
30 Mar Community Shot Campaign
Presented by Sechelt Hospital Foundation supporters, Kate & Dave Barratt “ The pandemic has presented many challenges but it’s nice to know that with vaccines becoming available, we should soon be back to more normal lives with friends and family. When your turn comes, as a gesture of thankfulness for the opportunity...
12 Mar Docs For Mental Health
[caption id="attachment_2708" align="alignright" width="412"] Hendri Eksteen and Marius Welgemoed[/caption] We are two psychiatrists passionate about mental health. After identifying various factors adversely affecting mental health in our small community, we decided more had to be done to support individuals and families in need. We have grown into a group of physicians and...
26 Feb Re-Charging Station
Physicians at Sechelt Hospital work to take care of a steady stream of community members, and they need a place to decompress, to converse, to connect and to catch a deep breath. [caption id="attachment_2670" align="alignright" width="284"] Medical Staff Association leaders, Dr. Karen Forgie and Dr. Brian Nelson, seated below “Clearing Skies”...