Donations bring new incubators and life-saving gear to Sechelt Hospital maternity ward Sechelt, B.C.—As Vancouver Coastal Health’s Sechelt Hospital prepares to deliver the last baby of 2023, (151 and counting!), the wrappers have just come off five new “Panda” warmers, a “Giraffe” incubator and six neonatal heart monitors for each room...
Dietitian’s Top 3 Tips for a Healthier Holiday Season (That don’t the ditch the dessert!) With the holiday season fast-approaching, many of us are filling our calendars with party invitations, and our grocery carts with foods we wouldn’t normally buy. For those living with diabetes, or anyone with healthy-eating goals, the holidays...
Sechelt Hospital Foundation and Vancouver Coastal Health outfit Sunshine Coast RCMP vehicles with life-saving equipment Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) now available in all first-on-the-scene vehicles Photo by Leslie Ghag. Jane Macdonald, Executive Director of Sechelt Hospital Foundation (left) and Marie Duperreault, Director at Vancouver Coastal Health (right) meet with RCMP officers outside...
Our donors often see the future of local health care very clearly, and they act on those insights. Case in point, local retired school teacher, Mary Lou Owen who has stepped forward once again, to help transform and expand Medical Imaging at Sechelt Hospital. Sechelt Hospital Foundation and Vancouver Coastal Health...
The Impact of Gifts in Action: Renovation of Sechelt Hospital's Laboratory. With Sechelt Hospital Foundation's commitment of $400,000 of donor contributions, the renovations of Sechelt Hospital's Laboratory began in April 2022. These renovations have greatly improved physical workflows, the lab space is now more easily navigated, and there are centralized storage areas resulting in a streamlined...
After hours in Sechelt Hospital's Surgical Services department, Clinical Coordinator Brenda Rowe provided a tour of our local operating rooms for a very special donor and members of Sechelt Hospital Foundation. Demonstrating the recently purchased Anesthetic Machine, monitors and an Omnicell automated anesthesia cart, Brenda explained how this new equipment securely...
Supporting early detection is the best defence against cancer. Next month, Sechelt Hospital Foundation and Vancouver Coastal Health are welcoming BC Cancer’s Mobile Mammography Unit to the Coast! The van will be offering breast cancer screenings in Sechelt from December 6 to 9. “Having the BC Cancer team here in Sechelt...
Major donation allows for new medical equipment in Emergency Department and Operating Rooms. Sechelt Hospital welcomes the arrival of two new Belmont Rapid Blood and IV Infusers. Any high trauma or emergency patients will now have access to the “gold standard” of rapid blood and IV infusers. This state-of-the-art upgrade was...
As the Sunshine Coast population continues to grow, Sechelt Hospital’s Pharmacy department has faced increasing demands for a growing inventory of medications, some of which require proper storage in a freezer. The hospital pharmacy approached Sechelt Hospital Foundation for a pharmaceutical grade freezer. In early 2022, the Hospital Foundation was contacted...
We all depend on our hospital’s terrific doctors, nurses and staff who work tirelessly to provide medical and acute care for residents of the Lower Sunshine Coast. Sechelt Hospital Foundation raises funds for critical equipment and special projects to enhance patient care at the hospital and throughout the entire Sunshine Coast....
