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We went to Wildflowers & Co. to meet with owner Ali Assu to receive the generous donation of beautiful books for our pediatrics ward at the Campbell River Hospital. Ali has shown in her short time in Campbell River as a business owner how much she cares for her...

What an amazing weekend we had at the Book Sale for the Hospital Foundation. first of all we got to spend the day near thousands of books, we got to see so many faces that we have so dearly missed over the past 18 months, and YOU all helped us raise just over...

We were so please to know that Kans 4 Kids (DF Albrecht) has been taken over and is going to help many kids fight health battles. We met with Dirk and Fiorella Albrecht for the so called passing of the torch and to introduce out Clinical Coordinator Susi Shelswell to...

Thanks to the Campbell River Community Foundation and their generous donation, today, we got to meet Sammy the Seal. Sammy is a Paro Therapeutic Robot that is used at Yucalta Lodge for animal therapy. This seal is used primarily with dementia patients.. It can...

Eva Xu of Gourmet Essentials and her staff recently donated $1476 to the Hospital Foundation in that will go towards the purchase of a Stereotactic Mammography Machine for the MRI. This machine works with the mammography to pinpoint the exact location of a breast mass...

CONGRATULATIONS to the Yucalta Dementia Dream Team on winning Local Healthcare Hero awards this year. Emily Smith and Rebecca Hoegler just wanted to makes the lives of the residents of Yucalta Lodge's dementia ward a bit better. The goal was to initially give the...

Larry Stright from the RCMP Central Vancouver Island Division of Veterans dropped by to donate $500 to the Hospital Foundation. While they have not been able to have their regular meetings during COVID-19, they still decided that they would like to donate to our...

Did you know that the Campbell River Hospital Foundation supports Continued Education to Eligible Employees in the form of Bursaries that would like to further their education and training to better care for the patients that they work with? Louise Smith, is an LPN...

The Rotary Clubs of Campbell River recently presented $18,050 to the Campbell River Hospital Foundation.  These funds are the proceeds from the March for Children this past December and will support the purchase two Resuscitation Carts for Maternity and a Respiratory...

Owner of Gourmet Essentials Eva Xu has continued the tradition started in 1996 from the previous owners for her second year in a row raising money for the Hospital Foundation with donations provided for Gift wrapping. This year they raised $1503 from this initiative,...

Al & Gay Ruff recently donated money raised from their Kans for Kids yearly drive for children. The Campbell River Hospital Foundation was a lucky recipient of some of the monies raised to aid in the purchase of a Pedia Poser for our Medical Imaging Department. ...