Hospitals of Regina Foundation 2019 Annual Report 1 Message from the Board Chair and the President & Ceo
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2HOSPI TALS OF0 REGI NA FOU NDATION1 2019 A N9N UAL R EPORT OUR MISSION TOP 5 REASONS DONORS In collaboration with our partners, SUPPORT Hospitals of Regina Foundation HOSPITALS OF raises funds to improve health REGINA care for the residents of southern FOUNDATION Saskatchewan. 1 Their family and/or friends are affected OUR VISION 2 They believe in supporting a To be recognized as the best good cause investment in health care for southern Saskatchewan. 3 They want to help people 4 They want to give back to OUR VALUES the community Donor-centered 5 They believe it is the right Fundamental interests and thing to do aspirations of our donors are paramount in our fundraising activities and stewardship. Working in partnership Continual fostering and strengthening of relationships within our community. Forward-thinking Innovative decision-making based on sound information. Results-driven Dedication to the fulfillment of our vision and mission. Integrity Professionalism and ethical standards guide all that we do. “In reviewing a year in which records were achieved and milestones reached, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to all of you – our partners, supporters and donors. The Foundation is simply an extension of your steadfast dedication to local health care. Your commitment and support has allowed us to make life better for everyone in southern Saskatchewan.” Aaron Runge Chair, Board of Directors Dino Sophocleous President & CEO HOSPITALS OF REGINA FOUNDATION 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 1 MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR AND THE PRESIDENT & CEO In many ways, 2019 was an where we expect to see 14,500 support of community groups, exceptional year for children annually, cancer event organizers and sponsors, Hospitals of Regina programs through our Breast and corporate partners and individual IFoundation. It afforded us the Prostate Assessment Centres and donors who have helped us opportunity to celebrate a the in-patient oncology unit, adult deliver on our promise of the best number of milestones, beginning rehabilitation programs, the adult local health care possible that we with the launch of the $2 million in-patient mental health unit, and made to our community in 1987. Cardiac Care Campaign, which support for physician fellowships, This commitment is at the heart of began with a $1 million matching which will see much needed everything we do at Hospitals of gift from The Mosaic Company. medical specialists train and Regina Foundation. It is a promise The campaign was completed in return to Regina to care for our that we cannot deliver on without a short nine months thanks to the community. your help. Nothing we do support of our southern happens without you! Saskatchewan community and Funding for our hospital will allow us to renew and commitments came from many In reviewing a year in which upgrade the technology in the donors, as well as Hospitals of records were achieved and Cardiac Catheterization Lab Regina Foundation Home milestones reached, we extend within the Mosaic Heart Centre, Lotteries, which were both our heartfelt gratitude to our where 2,300 cardiac patients successful and record breaking in volunteers, including our have interventions every year. 2019. Both the spring and fall volunteer board of directors, the Home Lotteries sold out early, medical, support and 2019 also saw the with record combined proceeds management teams in our commencement of our $3 million of almost $4.2 million. hospitals and the Saskatchewan Surgical Campaign, which was Health Authority, our devoted launched with a $500,000 Which brings us to the biggest staff team, and all of you – our matching gift from Yara Belle milestone - since 1987 with your partners, supporters and donors. Plaine. This effort will allow us to help and support, the Foundation The Foundation is simply an modernize all eighteen operating has raised an incredible $201 extension of your steadfast suites at the Regina General and million for investments in dedication to local health care. Pasqua Hospitals through the technology, equipment, medical Your commitment and support has installation of new surgical booms research and clinical education in allowed us to make life better for and surgical lights to make the our three hospitals. This makes us, everyone in southern 26,000 surgeries we have in by far, the most successful hospital Saskatchewan. Regina every year safer and foundation in the history of the more efficient. province. It is a collective Thank you. accomplishment by all of us Last year was also a record coming together to invest in the revenue year, with our health care of our families, friends Aaron Runge community’s support exceeding and neighbours. Chair, Board of Directors $14.4 million for the first time in our Foundation’s history. This None of this would be possible support will allow us to continue without the unwavering to make transformational generosity of our southern investments in many areas of our Saskatchewan community. We Dino Sophocleous, CFRE hospitals, including pediatrics, are humbled and honored by the President & CEO 2 HOSPITALS OF REGINA FOUNDATION 2019 ANNUAL REPORT MESSAGME EFRSOSAMG TEH EF RSOAMSK ATHTCEH SEAWSAKNA HTCEAHLETWH AANU THHEOARLITTHY PARUETSHIDOERNITT Y& CCEEO I am writing to thank you on funding for educational patients across Saskatchewan behalf of our board of opportunities for staff and other who access our services in directors, staff and critical supports for our health Regina and area. Iphysicians for your past and system. ongoing support for Every day, HRF and its donors strengthening health care One example of this support in help foster support from the services in Saskatchewan. the last year is the partnership community and engage donors between HRF and Mosaic for to strengthen the care we can For more than thirty years, the advancements in cardiac care deliver. Hospitals of Regina Foundation equipment in Regina. This support (HRF) and its generous donors will save lives. And it is just one have given tens of millions of example of HRF’s support. The dollars for much needed life changing support of HRF’s Scott W. Livingstone infrastructure improvements, donors is present in all corners of Chief Executive Officer, advances in medical equipment, Regina’s hospitals and felt by Saskatchewan Health Authority A B O U T R E G I N A ’ S H O S P I T A L S REGINA GENERAL PASQUA HOSPITAL WASCANA HOSPITAL REHABILITATION CENTRE Pasqua Hospital is at the Regina General Hospital is a forefront of many programs Wascana Rehabilitation Centre major referral centre for southern including ophthalmology, (WRC) provides specialized Saskatchewan and offers orthopedics and cancer services. long-term care and numerous specialties including It is home to the Breast comprehensive rehabilitation cardiosciences, neurosciences Assessment Centre, recognized programs for adults and children. and critical care. It is home to the as a centre of excellence in The WRC is home to the Wolfe Mosaic Heart Centre – breast imaging, and the Prostate Stroke Unit, which provides recognized as a leading cardiac Assessment Centre, which rehabilitation services for stroke facility in Canada – and the provides enhanced services for patients from across southern Rawlco Centre for Mother Baby prostate cancer patients. Saskatchewan. Care – one of the most advanced family-friendly facilities in Canada. HOSPITALS OF REGINA FOUNDATION 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 3 LEGACY GIFT and attending Rider games. She was as well as hospital staff in leadership dedicated to her profession and helping positions to understand the priority needs “If you don’t have your others until a freak accident in an airport left of our hospitals. health, you don’t have her with a broken leg and the need to be anything. That’s why hospitalized for a full recovery. While still in Lynn was very generous to the Foundation I’ll keep supporting recovery she accidentally fell again, during her lifetime, attending many events breaking her wrist and requiring further supporting the Foundation and donating the Foundation.” care in Regina’s Hospitals, as well as more than $47,000 in support of Lynn McManus, June 2016 reconstructive wrist surgery with plates and campaigns supporting Trauma, Respiratory, screws. Lynn spent an entire month at the Eye Centre, Surgery and ER/EMS Regina’s Pasqua Hospital where she was services. grateful for everyone - nurses, doctors, cleaners, nutritional and therapy staff who Lynn had also begun planning a gift through Lynn Carol McManus was born on 23 were all instrumental in her recovery. her estate, intending to make one last April, 1947, to parents Raymond and Although she spent a lifetime of helping transformational gift to the Foundation that Nancy and was raised on a farm near others heal, it wasn’t until she herself needed would become her legacy to her community Milestone Sk. where she grew up enjoying medical care that she gained a whole and her hospitals. She often discussed her both figure skating and piano lessons. After new appreciation for the care given in our plans during her regular lunches with high school, Lynn took a lab tech course local hospitals. Foundation staff, always insisting that this but soon realized it was not for her and final gift would be her testament to how went into nurses' training at the Regina Lynn started making donations to the grateful she was for the care she and her Grey Nuns Hospital, graduating in 1971. Hospitals of Regina Foundation as a way loved ones had received in Regina’s Working in Regina and Calgary she of giving back to her community, with a fresh hospitals and her “investment” in the health eventually continued her education path in understanding of how every penny could care of people in southern Saskatchewan. Edmonton and went back to school from be put to the best use within the local 1978 to1980, graduating as an medical system.