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Calgary Health Trust ANNUAL REPORT 2016/17 ONWARD OVER $427M RAISED FOR HOSPITALS, LONG-TERM CARE AND COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE IN CALGARY AND SURROUNDING AREA SINCE 1996. *Includes money raised through Partners in Health and Reach! Campaigns, which raised money for research and new clinical programs throughout Calgary. OUR VISION OUR VALUES OUR PILLARS REFERRAL POPULATION Inspire passion in people that will We are PASSIONATE in our words. (OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA, SOUTH EAST BRITISH transform health care for a better Alberta. 1. Developing World-Class Care COLUMBIA AND SOUTH WEST SASKATCHEWAN) We are COLLABORATIVE in our work. 2. Impacting Albertans OVER 2.1 MILLION We are INNOVATIVE in our thinking. and their Families OUR MISSION We are TRUSTWORTHY in our relationships. 3. Improving the Quality of Life CALGARY ZONE (2014) Inspiring the community to engage for those in our Community 1,544,495 in building a healthier future. We are INSPIRATIONAL in our actions. We are COMPASSIONATE in our hearts. Community-based health care programs Foothills Medical Centre Peter Lougheed Centre South Health Campus Rockyview General Hospital Carewest Continuing Care Centres 3 Dr. Chris Eagle Bill Sembo Onward: A message from our Leadership President & CEO Board Chair This report is about looking back at the past year and our contributions because they want to ensure that those who will need care in the future to the community, but perhaps even more importantly, it’s about looking will have the best opportunity to defy the odds. forward to the commitments we have made that will impact the lives of those who live here. We both took the opportunity to lead Calgary Health Trust because we are inspired by the incredible generosity of Calgarians and Southern In the past year, we have made many significant changes as an Albertans. Through thick and thin, Calgarians have demonstrated their organization, including the appointment of new leadership as we, support through financial giving and a strong commitment to volunteerism. alongside our three Vice Chairs, take the helm of Calgary Health Trust. This community has shown time and time again that it wants to fund We cannot adequately convey the significant contribution both Mrs. Ann innovations that create change. This is a great opportunity for health care. McCaig, past Board Chair and Mrs. Jill Olynyk, previous CEO, have made in setting the course for Calgary Health Trust’s success in the future. We believe in health care because of what it gives us: New leadership always leads to many changes, but one of the most quality of life, time with our families and loved ones, the impactful in how we persevere onwards has been in redefining our vision. ability to pursue our interests; and we invest in health care Transforming health care is no small task. It’s a mandate that will lead us because of what it gives others – hope, opportunity and well into the future and will touch the lives of people today and those who sometimes a second chance at life. may not yet be born. This Annual Report is inspired by our belief in health care for the future We are committed to looking beyond the walls of just our hospitals and and the innovation it takes to drive us forward. We hope you are inspired into areas where we can make a significant contribution in educating the by these stories of our donors’ commitment to others and that you will public in prevention efforts, investing in research that will change outcomes continue to support our vision to transform health care and the health of and further pursue excellence in care. This strategic focus will strengthen our community. Calgary Health Trust’s commitment to the community found in our pillars of building world-class care, impacting Albertans and their families, and improving the quality of life for those who live here. One of our six values is compassion. It is evident that this is a trait that we all share. Often we hear of families who have given because of the Dr. Chris Eagle W. G. Sembo compassionate care they received, or donors who have left a legacy gift President & CEO Board Chair 4 5 Highlights from our Year A NEW GASTROENTEROLOGY CELEBRATING 50 YEARS A NEW NEONATAL INTENSIVE SUITE OPENS AT ROCKYVIEW OF CARE AT CARE UNIT (NICU) OPENS AT GENERAL HOSPITAL Foothills Medical Centre and Rockyview General Hospital as they both celebrate PETER LOUGHEED CENTRE thanks to the Rockyview Invitational Golf Tournament and half a century of serving the community. including two six-bed care rooms named in honour of Mata support of headlining sponsors Jayman BUILT and Plains Tripta, the mother of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism. Midstream Canada. The three year tournament, headed by This new NICU is triple the unit’s original space bringing it to Jayman BUILT’s Jay Westman and Plains Midstream Canada’s 1,200 square metres, and adds a dedicated isolation room to Dave Duckett and Brad Deets, has also laid important care for newborns with highly transmissible conditions, such as groundwork for the redevelopment of the new Gastrointestinal A CARE BY PARENT chickenpox or a respiratory illness. (GI) Endoscopy Unit unit at Rockyview General Hospital in addition to opening the new suite. ROOM OPENS AT SOUTH HEALTH THE CALGARY FIREFIGHTERS BURN CAMPUS TREATMENT SOCIETY DONATES $1.44M to burn care at Foothills Medical Centre to advance treatment allowing families leaving the and support services for patients and families. neonatal intensive care unit to spend one night close to their care team before heading home. THE NEW SCOTIABANK SPORT 10 NEW COURT OPENED HEMODIALYSIS thanks to the partnership with the YMCA at South Health Campus. CHAIRS The new sport court creates are purchased at Sheldon M. a space that is open to the Chumir Health Centre thanks to community and promotes wellness a generous gift from Jim Gray and healthy activity. and friends in honour of his late wife, Josie. 6 7 Creating opportunity through generosity “They say the two most important things in life are who your mother is and where you were born. In our minds, our family won the birth lottery when our daughter, Shannon, was born in Calgary at the Foothills Hospital.” - Howie Shikaze While preparing for friends and family to arrive for Christmas, little privacy. “Howie and I did shift work caring for Shannon Howie and Sher Shikaze’s plans were thrown for a loop when and made a point to be by her side during care, but it was Sher’s water broke on Christmas Eve. She was having a high- scary and stressful,” says Sher Shikaze. “We asked a lot of risk pregnancy that had her on bed rest early on and it was still questions and made every effort to understand what was over eight weeks to her due date. happening with our daughter.” On December 28, their daughter Shannon was born at Shannon’s cousin was born 12 weeks premature in another 4lbs 2oz via an emergency caesarean. province a few years before her. Within 2 years, he had 24 surgeries. Complications at the time impacted the rest of his Shannon was immediately taken to the neonatal intensive care life and he now requires a wheelchair for his cerebral palsy unit (NICU). Aside from challenges due to the loss of amniotic and suffers from brain damage. fluid and Shannon’s premature birth, doctors were also worried about her distended bowels and jaundice. She struggled with “We wonder if he had all the same resources that were feedings, not having the ability to suck, and would constantly available to Shannon he might have a different outcome,” throw up her food. reflects Howie Shikaze. “The opportunities we might provide to other families is what inspired us to donate to the NICU.” Thirty years ago, when Shannon was born, babies were in incubators lining the ward. It was noisy and there was very Foothills Hopitals has a level 3 NICU, which means it cares for some of the most premature and critical newborns. They are constantly evaluating research and care practices to ensure they can provide the best and most up to date care in the critical first few months of these newborns’ lives. GRATEFUL PATIENT GIVING “Just to see how Shannon turned out today – it was a When patients receive excellent care, they or their families struggle the first couple years but today she is such a success often look for a way to say thank you. A grateful patient as an engineer and healthy young woman. We are really donation is an excellent way to show your appreciation proud of her,” says Howie. and ensure that staff have the resources to continue to Sher and Howie Shikaze provide the best care in the future. with their daughter, Shannon 9 Onward statement ONWARD The Shikaze family wants their gift to ensure that other families have the same opportunities for care that Shannon did 30 years ago. “Our parents were born in Canada of Japanese / Canadian heritage. During WWII virtually everything they owned in British Columbia was taken by the Canadian government and they arrived in Alberta with just two suitcases each. They were deprived of everything and yet they rebuilt their lives starting with nothing, got us to university and gave us the life that we have today. If we make a small contribution, we hope we can inspire others to share their good fortune too,” says Howie Shikaze. “We’ve had the privilege of travelling the world and seeing many other cultures that have less. Calgary is a small village; it’s the kind of city where you can walk down the street and run into people you know.

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