ANNUAL REPORT 2018 – 2019 Honouring 125 years of innovation driven by compassion Contents Leadership 4 Highlights 6 Every gift makes a Financials 14 difference. Your support Governance 15 does so much, for so many. Acknowledgements 16 Thank you. New St. Paul’s. We were thrilled when Premier warmer for seniors in acute care. Horgan announced Treasury Board approval Heartfelt appreciation. We bid farewell to our for the new St. Paul’s at the Jim Pattison outgoing Chair, Kathryn Young, with our deep Medical Centre. It was the culmination of a thanks for her long service to the Foundation. sustained effort spanning two decades and We are especially grateful for her determined the collective engagement of countless leadership in the years preceding the Treasury supporters and donors. We expect to have Board announcement. shovels in the ground next year with the grand opening in 2026. Warm welcome. John Montalbano has served on the board for three years and has graciously A family’s lasting legacy. Three generations agreed to accept the role of Chair. John has of the Louie family have supported St. Paul’s years of hands-on community engagement with their time and philanthropy. Last fall, they and a commitment to improving health care; honoured us with a $6.5 million gift that will we look forward to having him at the helm as continue the family’s legacy in an expanded we move toward the new St. Paul’s. Tong Louie Cardiac Wing at the new St. Paul’s. Of course, you—our donors—are at the Supercluster. A year ago, we announced our heart of all these achievements. We are participation in Canada’s Digital Technology inspired by your trust, your support, and your Supercluster. This year, PHC, supported by compassion. Together, we are building a bridge the Foundation, became a key member in the from Burrard Street to Station Street; from Supercluster’s first project: a cloud-based the past to the future; from our history to our network that can diagnose skin cancer from destiny. Thank you. uploaded photographs. With a disease as fast moving as melanoma, and long waits to see BC’s few dermatologists, this has incredible potential to save and improve lives right across BC. DICK VOLLET KATHRYN YOUNG Message from leadership President and CEO Board Chair Greatest needs. Thanks to you, our 21st Lights of Hope raised a record $3.2 million to support the greatest needs of our patients, residents, and caregivers right across PHC. What a year! As we celebrate the 125th anniversary We welcomed the Year of the Pig at the 12th of St. Paul’s, we also celebrate an outstanding year annual Feast of Fortune gala and raised more for the Foundation, Providence Health Care, and the than $1 million for Mount Saint Joseph Hospital (MSJ). This year, the funds will provide MSJ people of BC. Here are a few of our most memorable with urgently-needed equipment including moments reflecting the theme of this year’s annual defibrillators, ventilators, tilting wheelchairs, report: the past, present, and future of health care and the gift of compassion itself: a blanket at St. Paul’s. 4 | ANNUAL REPORT | 2018 - 2019 Your impact $40,425,058 $23,745,303 ST. PAUL’S FOUNDATION’S TOTAL TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS TO REVENUE IN 2018-2019 PHC AND OTHER QUALIFIED DONEES IN 2018-2019 New St. Paul’s $3.2M $1M RAISED FOR GREATEST NEEDS RAISED FOR GREATEST NEEDS AT BY THIS YEAR’S LIGHTS OF MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL A green light for the new St. Paul’s! As we prepare to build the new St. Paul’s, we’re HOPE CAMPAIGN BY THIS YEAR’S SCOTIABANK more grateful than ever for the leadership, When BC Premier John Horgan announced FEAST OF FORTUNE GALA vision, and compassion of the founding that the business plan for a new St. Paul’s was Sisters of Providence 125 years ago. And approved on February 15, we realized a once- we’re grateful for the generous support of our in-a-lifetime opportunity—creating a hospital donors to help transform the way we deliver and care campus from the ground up, one and receive care in BC. that’s purpose built to put people first. Doors of the new $1.9 billion St. Paul’s hospital The new St. Paul’s at the Jim Pattison are expected to open in 2026. Medical Centre will be the largest hospital redevelopment in BC’s history. The hospital will have capacity for up to 548 beds, including 115 new beds. The site will be home to leading provincial programs and referral centres, and offer a diverse range of general and specialized care. Patients will have digital access to their own medical files and quicker diagnostic times, with treatments harnessing things like immunotherapy, virtual reality, robotics, 3D BC Premier John Horgan and Health Minister Adrian Dix join representatives from PHC and SPF to printing, and artificial intelligence. announce the new St. Paul’s. 6 | ANNUAL REPORT | 2018 - 2019 Seniors & residential care A new era of caring the additional support of a music therapist, residents experience profound opportunities for Providence Health Care (PHC) has embarked on inclusion, creativity, and fun. a journey to make life better in our residences, and for our residents. It began by asking, what This transformational care model will be used as part of the Providence Residential and New St. Paul’s From left to right, Gregory, Kurt, makes home feel like a home? Brandt, and Stuart Louie. Community Care Services Society’s planned Site by site, staff gathered ideas and insights dementia villages on Vancouver’s Heather from each other, residents, and families and Street and in Comox. put them into practice over a two-week testing Celebrating intergenerational Louie Cardiac Unit at St. Paul’s, in the 1990s. period. The process is guided by three themes: In April 2019, Megamorphosis was awarded giving: The Louie family The family’s giving legacy continues today with residents direct each moment, emotional the next generation of Louies. connections matter most, and home is a feeling. the prestigious 3M Health Care Quality In October 2018, our Foundation announced a Team Award by the Canadian College of The project is called Megamorphosis, significant $6.5 million donation by the London Health Leaders. which honours the uniqueness that each Drugs and Tong and Geraldine Louie Family The expanded Tong Louie Cardiac Wing at resident brings. Foundations in support of the provincial Heart the new St. Paul’s will provide a lifeline for Centre at the new St. Paul’s. people in need of specialized cardiac care. It goes beyond their care needs, medical Best of all, for our residents, home doesn’t conditions, and daily supports to get to the feel like living in a hospital setting. It just feels The Louie family have deep roots at Providence heart of what brings each individual comfort like home. Health Care, giving both their time and their The donation will allow the Heart Centre to and joy. At Youville Residence, for example, money. The relationship dates back more than offer more treatments and clinics, and recruit music and music programming is a vital part 40 years to when Tong Louie first stepped up more cardiologists and cardiac surgeons, of their community. Residents enjoy musical to serve on the St. Paul’s Hospital board. Tong impacting the lives of future generations of instruments, CDs, and in-house concerts. With Louie’s generosity established the first Tong British Columbians. 8 | ANNUAL REPORT | 2018 - 2019 BC Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Judy Darcy launches the HUB. Mental health & substance use A HUB of hope in the midst of crisis care for people needing specialized mental A new professorship to his kindness and willingness to reach out to health and substance use treatment, and anyone seeking help for their substance use. A substantial rise in overdoses led BC to declare address addiction care help transitioning back into their communities. a public health emergency in 2016, and the The new Professorship will work with the The culturally appropriate care includes St. Paul’s sits at the epicentre of the opioid urgency of developing improved treatment BCCSU and the UBC Department of Medicine to an integrated Indigenous health team and crisis, providing care to one of Canada’s most options for a vulnerable population increased. develop an addiction treatment and recovery connections to Indigenous healing programs. vulnerable populations. In November 2018, research program as well as an education In July 2018, BC Minister of Mental Health and Both the HUB ED and VPF TCC are consistently the Foundation announced the new Steven program to train health care practitioners. Addictions Judy Darcy announced the launch at full capacity. Diamond Professorship in Addiction Care of the HUB Emergency Department (ED) and Innovation at the BC Centre on Substance Vancouver Police Foundation Transitional Care Use (BCCSU), thanks to a generous $1 million The Steven Diamond Professorship will The HUB was made possible thanks Centre (VPF TCC) at St. Paul’s. gift from Vancouver’s Diamond Foundation, reflect Steven’s own life-long quest to learn, to the generous contributions of a matched with an additional $1 million from to care for the most marginalized people, Along with the Rapid Access Addiction Clinic number of community, health care, the Foundation. and to create lasting positive change. (RAAC), these combined clinics and services, and industry partners. known as the HUB, provide a continuum of Steven Diamond was a talented massage therapist and addictions counselor known for 10 | ANNUAL REPORT | 2018 - 2019 Innovative technology A giant leap forward in a preliminary diagnosis within days, instead health care technology of the current wait time of about six months.