Give to St. Paul’s Foundation
When you give to St. Paul’s Foundation, you help us drive innovative and transformative health care at Providence and across BC.
Fostering health care breakthroughs
Your gift to St. Paul’s Foundation is so much more than a donation.
Gifts to St. Paul’s Foundation enable Providence to deliver exceptional patient care and yield research discoveries with a global impact.
Supporters of St. Paul’s Foundation are propelling the continual evolution of health care and seniors and long-term care in BC.
When you give to St. Paul’s Foundation, every gift – large and small – makes a big impact.
If you wanted to identify ways to improve care, who would you ask? That’s easy. You’d ask the staff on the frontlines caring for our patients, residents, and their families.
Staff have first-hand experience on where there might be gaps – and they have all kinds of creative ideas to make things better.
That’s why St. Paul’s Foundation has a unique program that invites staff to share their suggestions on how we can improve patient care and comfort.
Each year, your donations allow us to bring about 300 of their compassionate, patient-centred ideas to life, including:
- Traditional food and medicines for healing and smudging ceremonies in the All Nations Sacred Space at St. Paul’s Hospital
- Portable carts with microwaves and fridges so patients with cystic fibrosis can meet their substantial nutritional requirements 24/7
- Reading glasses for the mobile library
- Toiletries, clothing, and personal care items to safeguard the dignity of every patient
- Translation services so folks get the care they need in the language they understand
Your gift helps patients, residents, staff, and families when they need it most.
And you support St. Paul’s Foundation itself.
Your gift to St. Paul’s Foundation ensures we can continue to support Providence in its mission to deliver world-class care and pursue innovative research. Of course, this includes two of the most leading-edge health care projects in BC history: the incredible new St. Paul’s Hospital on the Jim Pattison Medical Campus – the largest hospital project in Western Canada – and BC’s first publicly-funded long-term care village: Providence Living at The Views in Comox.
Without the support of donors like you, who fund the operations of our Foundation, hospital clinicians would be challenged to acquire the latest in medical technology for diagnostics and treatment. Researchers would be forced to look beyond our hospitals for lab space and operating funds. Providence Health Care would lose clinicians and researchers to other institutions in the US and overseas. Without the work of our Foundation, BC and Canada stand to lose the greatest asset we have in health care – our people. The stakes are very high.
In this way, by giving to St. Paul’s Foundation, you bring compassion to patients and families. You fund life-changing research. And, you not only safeguard the future of health care excellence in BC but also extend its positive impact to communities worldwide.
“When I did find out that sepsis was the culprit and how deadly it can be, I thought, ‘Wow, I really dodged a bullet here thanks to the people at St Paul’s.’”
James Stitchman
Grateful patient and sepsis survivor
When you give to St. Paul’s Foundation, you give patients like James the chance to beat the odds.