Since 1995, Sechelt Hospital Foundation has raised and invested over $28 million to improve healthcare on the Sunshine Coast. With the support of donors, we fund new medical equipment, facility upgrades, and health education programs that directly benefit patients and their families.
Completed in 2024.
The only emergency care site on the lower Sunshine Coast, underwent major renovations in 2023 to improve patient care, safety, and privacy, adding features such as new treatment spaces, dedicated mental health and family rooms, private triage, and improved staff sight lines.
Creates real-time images of the heart, allowing assess its structure and function. This helps diagnose heart conditions, guide treatment decisions, and monitor patient outcomes safely and non-invasively.
Continuously track vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels, and respiration as patients recover from anesthesia.
Now, patients will be better served at home with the purchase of a light-duty pick-up truck for the Home Care team. This truck will allow staff to move larger pieces of equipment and ensure timely discharges from the hospital—by getting patients, and their medical equipment back home!
These new motorized chairs provide comfort and proper support for patients during long dialysis treatments. They enhance safety, improve the patient experience.
Celebrating it’s 11th year, the Staff Education Fund supports all Vancouver Coastal Health employees to upgrade their skills and further their education. Investing in staff ensures the community continues to receive the best health care possible, right here at home. We can proudly report that 31 local healthcare staff were supported through this fund in 2024.
Allow healthcare providers to practice and refine clinical skills in a safe, realistic environment. This improves staff competency, confidence, and patient safety by ensuring readiness for real-life medical situations.
With funding provided in partnership with TB Vets. Sechelt Hospital Foundation was able to purchase a Transport Ventilator. This equipment provides life-sustaining breathing support for critically ill patients while they are being moved within the hospital. This ensures continuous, safe ventilation without interruption in care.
These tables provide a controlled source of heat to help newborns maintain a stable body temperature. This supports vital functions, reduces stress on the baby, and creates a safe environment.
With funding provided in partnership with TB Vets, Sechelt Hospital Foundation was able to purchase this important piece of equipment. Spirometers measure how well a patient’s lungs are working, helping doctors diagnose and monitor conditions like asthma, COPD, and other respiratory illnesses.
Utilized by our Home Support teams, Bladder Scanners provide a quick, non-invasive way to measure bladder volume and detect urinary retention.
In 2022, Sechelt Hospital Foundation, Vancouver Coastal Health leadership, and Westland Insurance executives gathered online to celebrate generous gifts totaling $220,000 from the Wubs family, Westland Insurance, additional donors, and the Foundation Board, supporting a new urology system. This system modernizes diagnostic urology with improved optics for detecting bladder and urinary issues, greater reliability, and enhanced patient care.
These small but mighty machines separate patient samples into their components, enabling accurate testing and diagnosis.
A comfort for patients to keep them connected, informed, and entertained during their stay.
For reliable snow removal, keeping roads, parking lots, and emergency access routes clear. For the safety of all patients, visitors & staff!
Thanks to the generous support of WestCoast Mining and their 11th Annual Comedy on the Coast event, Sechelt Hospital now has a specialized phototherapy light to treat newborns with jaundice. This innovative light uses gentle phototherapy to safely break down excess bilirubin in a baby’s blood, helping to prevent complications and ensure a smooth, healthy recovery!
They test and verify the performance of hearing aids, ensuring they are programmed and functioning correctly.
These cameras provide high-quality images to track healing progress and document wounds accurately over time.
A safe and effective treatment for severe mental health conditions such as major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
Provides the light and energy needed for clear visualization and therapeutic procedures during endoscopy.
This device allowed for greater detection of polyps during Colonoscopy, increasing healthcare outcomes for patients.
Measures carbon monoxide levels in a patient’s blood, allowing for rapid diagnosis of carbon monoxide poisoning.
With funding provided in partnership with TB Vets. This component helps support breathing in premature or ill newborns while reducing the risk of lung injury.
Ventilators deliver oxygen, remove carbon dioxide, and are critical in treating severe illness, surgery, or respiratory failure.
For patients who require specialized dental services in the hospital.
This equipment is used in General Surgery & Gynecology. It seals and cuts blood vessels with precision using advanced energy technology.This improves surgical efficiency, shortens procedure times, and supports faster recovery for patients.
Used in multiple places throughout the hospital for patient privacy.
In January 2018, the Foundation supported the opening of the new Gibsons Public Health facility, which introduced the Sunshine Coast’s first audiology booth for children’s hearing tests, funded in part by donations from Comedy on the Coast. The centre also provides a wide range of accessible public health services, including youth clinics for dental, sexual, and overall health, in a modern, centrally located space.
The Foundation partnered with Vancouver Coastal Health to fund a $1,115,000 investment in equipment and furnishings for the complete transformation of the South Wing into a modern Ambulatory Care Unit, along with a 13-room patient care unit. Since it’s opening in 2016, the ACU has received excellent feedback for improving care and comfort for chemotherapy, hemodialysis, medical daycare, and visiting specialist patients, while reducing the need for travel and enhancing staff efficiency through its innovative design.
