Celebrate HOPE “I want to thank all of you as donors. I am a result of your giving.” – George, former St. Paul’s Hospital patient ANNUAL REPORT 2017 - 2018 Celebrate FAMILY The Mills became part of our St. Paul’s family when Barbara gave her son-in-law a kidney so he could watch his son grow up. Read their story at helpstpauls.com/mills. 2 | ANNUAL REPORT | 2017 - 2018 Contents Leadership 4 Highlights 5 Financials 14 Governance 15 Acknowledgements 16 Message from LEADERSHIP What an honour to look back on a year defined the foundation for the new St. Paul’s within by innovation, achievement, and compassion the Jim Pattison Medical Centre. right across the Foundation. As we reflect on the many accomplishments, one word comes Noteworthy alliances. We marked the first to mind: celebration. Truly, this year’s highlight year since the amalgamation of St. Paul’s reel is one to celebrate. Foundation and Tapestry Foundation. It is a privilege to raise funds for enhanced patient Providence Health Care (PHC) launched a care, capital projects, equipment needs, compassionate new approach to elder care. research, teaching and innovation to improve We supported a ground-breaking new clinic the care of patients across all Providence at St. Paul’s for people with mental health Health Care hospitals and residences in and substance use challenges. PHC became British Columbia. a founding member of Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster. And that’s Annual traditions. In November, we not all. Here are a few more of our most celebrated the 20th anniversary of St. Paul’s inspiring milestones: inspiring Lights of Hope campaign. Thanks to you, we raised $3.1 million to support the Unprecedented generosity. We received greatest needs of our patients, residents, and one of the largest private donations caregivers. Not long after that, we hosted in Canadian history with Jim Pattison’s Feast of Fortune to welcome the Lunar New transformative $75 million gift to the Year. And again, your generosity helped us Foundation. His donation will literally lay raise more than $900,000 to purchase an 4 | ANNUAL REPORT | 2017 - 2018 ultra-high-tech mammography machine for brand new St. Paul’s. Thank you, Dianne: you the Providence Breast Centre at Mount Saint inspired us with your leadership and guidance. Joseph Hospital (MSJ). Extraordinary donors. Everything you see New beginnings. We are delighted to in this report is a celebration of our donors’ welcome Fiona Dalton, the new President & generosity, and the crucial role you have played CEO of PHC. Fiona brings us almost 25 years in our many achievements. Together, we are experience leading complex, publicly-funded building the future of health care and that’s health care organizations, notably with the yet another reason to celebrate. Thank you. UK’s National Health Service. Fond farewells. We bid a very fond farewell to Dianne Doyle, who began a well-earned retirement after 12 years as PHC’s President & CEO. Dianne was a tireless advocate for DICK VOLLET KATHRYN YOUNG improving the hospital’s aging infrastructure President and CEO Board Chair and she leaves us having set the stage for a $35.7M $23.9M St. Paul Foundation's disbursed to PHC total revenue in 2017/18 sites in 2017/18 YOUR IMPACT $3.1M raised by this year's Lights of Hope campaign Celebrate CHANGEMAKERS In March 2017, our Foundation celebrated How very fitting that Jim Pattison’s name— an incredible act of generosity: a $75 million synonymous with philanthropy, innovation, and donation from Jim Pattison. His gift will help community engagement—will anchor the new build the Jim Pattison Medical Centre, home St. Paul’s. of the new St. Paul’s Hospital: a world-class health campus to be built just three kilometres from our original building on Burrard. Jim Pattison’s gift is a watershed for the new St. Paul’s and for all British Columbians. The new St. Paul’s represents a unique And we are profoundly grateful for it. Every opportunity to help transform health care gift makes a difference. Your gift makes for the people of British Columbia. It will be a difference. We couldn’t do what we do a catalyst to drive innovation and excellence. without donors like you. And it will fundamentally shift the way health care services are experienced by patients, staff, and the wider community. Perhaps best of all, the new St. Paul’s will open its doors building on a 125-year history of delivering integrated, patient-centred, compassionate care. 6 | ANNUAL REPORT | 2017 - 2018 Celebrate SENIORS There’s a reason so many Christmas carols are It’s a simple but profound insight, and it’s about getting home, or being at home, for the transforming elder care at PHC. Gone is the holidays. It’s because home is our comfort. It’s institutional model that prioritized routine and our haven. It’s where we gather to celebrate structure. In its place, we are crafting a social our milestones with family and friends. model that more closely resembles the life our residents had in their family homes. “We But what if you live in residential care? How don’t even call it ‘elder care.’ We call it living,” do you build a home and create a sense of says Willekes. comfort and community in a medical setting? That’s the question Carrie Willekes, Resident Your donations to St. Paul’s Foundation do so Care Manager at MSJ, set out to answer. After much for so many. We hope you are as gratified countless interviews with residents, families, as we are to know that your support is building and staff, it turned out that the way to make communities that seniors (and future seniors!) residential sites feel like a home, is to make will genuinely want to call home. them function like a home. Willekes says, “Think about all of the things Read more about the work of Carrie and that make your home welcoming and other seniors & residential care staff at comfortable: food, celebrations, family, friends, helpstpauls.com/seniors. dignity, being engaged in your care and decision-making. These are the same things our residents and their families want.” Celebrate COLLABORATION St. Paul’s Foundation was thrilled to pick up the machine replaces one purchased in 2008 with threads initially woven by Tapestry Foundation funds raised at the very first Scotiabank Feast to celebrate the 11th annual Scotiabank of Fortune. Staff and patients alike are excited Feast of Fortune: our annual fundraising gala about this revolutionary new screening tool. in support of vital equipment at MSJ. Although It allows for better cancer detection by using this was our Foundation’s first time hosting an advanced form of mammography called the event, Scotiabank Feast of Fortune has “tomosynthesis.” This creates a 3-D image of a wonderful history and donors like you have the breast and enables doctors to see through helped raise almost $5 million. denser tissue which can help detect breast cancer earlier, while it is most treatable. This year, more than 600 business leaders, community ambassadors, and philanthropists from Vancouver’s diverse community gathered Thank you to all committee members, guests, to welcome the Year of the Dog. And in keeping donors, sponsors, and auction contributors with the dog, a character symbolizing loyalty for your generous support of the event, and kindness, your support helped us raise Mount Saint Joseph Hospital, and St. Paul’s $900,115 for a state-of-the-art mammography Foundation. Thanks to you, we can ensure machine for MSJ. that patients continue to receive the best care, with the best tools, for the next ten Last year, more than 15,000 breast images years and beyond. were taken at MSJ. It is interesting (and more than a little heartwarming) to note that the new 8 | ANNUAL REPORT | 2017 - 2018 Celebrate COMMUNITY Star light. Star bright. First star I see tonight. There’s a reason we wish on the first star in the When you give to Lights of Hope, your gift goes night sky: because it twinkles with light and wherever the need is most acute. It could be hope. Then, almost before you know it, that first urgently-needed equipment, or funding for a star becomes part of a blanket of stars that fills community program that provides outreach and the night sky with lights of hope. connection, or an innovative teaching initiative that would not otherwise get off the ground. Similarly, at the darkest time of year, Lights of Hope illuminates Vancouver’s Burrard Street Ultimately, Lights of Hope is a beautiful corridor and transforms the façade of St. Paul’s reminder of the life-changing work being Hospital into a beacon of light and joy. Thanks done at St. Paul’s and at all PHC sites. And it’s to you, this spectacular showcase is more than a touchstone that clearly resonates with our just a beloved holiday tradition: it’s one of our entire community: since 1998, we’ve raised Foundation’s most enduring and meaningful more than $34 million. fundraising campaigns. And this year was no exception. On November 16th, we gathered On behalf of St. Paul’s Foundation, PHC, and with you outside St. Paul’s Hospital to celebrate the tens of thousands of patients, residents, the 20th annual Lights of Hope. We lit the night and caregivers who benefit from your sky in support of our patient’s greatest needs support, thank you for inspiring hope. and together we raised $3.1 million. Celebrate HEALING Each year, the Teck Emergency Centre at St.