Donations at Work
Each year, generous donors like you support life-saving and life-changing care for thousands of children and families. Your gifts, big and small, fund family-centred programming, specialized equipment and groundbreaking research at the Alberta Children’s Hospital and throughout our community.
Thanks to you, specialists are able to meet families where they are at with the help they need and provide the most personalized care available. Here is a snapshot of some of the many successes you made possible last year.
Life-Saving and Life-Changing Ventilators
Bonnie was born with a rare condition affecting her lungs and other organs. She’s one of hundreds of babies who have relied on a ventilator at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. Thanks to community support, this technology has recently been upgraded. READ MORE
Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team
Payton and her family were in Lethbridge when a rare infection stopped her ability to breathe. Doctors knew she needed specialized care so they called in the Pediatric Critical Care Transport team from the Alberta Children’s Hospital to airlift her to Calgary. READ MORE
Precision Prescriptions
In the first year of recruitment, 37 participants were enrolled in the PGx-STaR study, including children, teens and young adults from Alberta, B.C. and Saskatchewan. Eight-year-old Adeline Hunter, from Calgary, recently completed the study. READ MORE
Hospital at Home
Thanks to the donor-funded Hospital at Home program, Jaylee is able to receive much of her cancer treatment surrounded by her favourite comforts — her family, home-cooked meals and cuddles from her dog, Piper. READ MORE
Family Supports
Family supports, made possible through community generosity, ensure families relying on care at the Alberta Children’s Hospital have access to vital resources during some of their most difficult moments. READ MORE
Therapeutic Arts
Over the last year, therapeutic arts programming at the Alberta Children’s Hospital has continued to flourish, offering patients and families moments of healing, joy, and connection in the midst of medical challenges. READ MORE
Rotary Flames House
When their kids were diagnosed with the same neurodegenerative disease, Jessica and Kyle were understandably devastated. Thankfully Rotary Flames House has been a saving grace for their family and a place where their children can live their fullest lives possible surrounded by joy and love. READ MORE
Brain Computer Interface (BCI)
Hennessy is only five years old, but he’s already showing the world what he’s capable of through the power of BCI. Thanks to BCI, Hennessy can paint, drive a robotic car and start his favourite videos all using the power of his mind. READ MORE
The Summit
Thanks to generous community support, Calgary is home to The Summit: Marian & Jim Sinneave Centre for Youth Resilience – a special place providing compassionate and comprehensive mental health care tailored to children, youth and families. READ MORE
Emerging Adult Mental Health
Thanks to our generous community, the Emerging Adult Mental Health Initiative has co-created and implemented a new and improved model of care with and for young people aged 16–29 seeking support in our community. READ MORE
Cancer Care and Research for Kids
Thanks to generous community support, Mads’ was able to participate in a clinical trial for a drug that was showing promise by reducing the likelihood of his cancer relapsing by fifty percent. READ MORE
KidSONO: Finding Answers Faster
Thanks to your generous support, specialists at the Alberta Children’s Hospital are using point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) to inform care in real time, helping them make faster diagnoses with increased accuracy so children can begin treatments sooner. READ MORE
Where Your Money Goes
Community donations are invested in Patient and Family Centred Care, Advancing Child Health, Education and Training and Research. Here is a snapshot of your generosity and impact over the last three years.
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