Report to Community
Much to celebrate!
Despite the challenges of the 2021/22 fiscal year, we have many successes to celebrate. The power of this community to mobilize and support one another has never been stronger and is evident in how much our donors LOVE OUR HOSPITAL. Everyday our community demonstrated the POWER of working together.
Year in Review
Impact of EHR
WPSHC has played a leadership role in the implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHR). We went from full paper records to full digital. Being fully digitized was very advantageous during COVID, adding to significant infection control as paper files did not need to be brought into patient care areas.
- WPSHC has played a leadership role in implementing the EHR system and continues to support others in our network to join.
- Within the next 2 years, 20 more northern hospitals with join the network
- Our system is one of the best in the country, to which others benchmark
- EHR provides our clincal teams and patients with:
- Medication reconciliation
- Automatic referral process
- Continuity of care
- Quicker primary care provider follow up
- Connection between Hospital and community
- Discharge summary helps reduce hospital readmission
Dr. Wil Smith attending a Meditech (EHR) training session
Digital mammography
Meeting our goal through the power of Community. The funds raised by our dedicated Support the Girls Golf Tournament participants and an additional gift from the Nosreap Foundation allowed us to commit the full $650,000 needed to move forward with the purchase of our new Digital Mammography machine. The NEW unit is expected to be in place in 2023 providing leading edge, precise diagnosis and greater capacity to meet our patients needs.
This innovative unit can:
- Reduce breast compression (this can be painful!) and have personalized compression which can be adjusted to everyone’s unique body
- Provide superior image quality, sharper, more clear images
- Streamline workflow to reduce the time it takes to acquire images
- Tomosynthesis (3D technology) to improve detection of cancer
- Ability to mark, biopsy and image issue with one machine in one process, fewer pieces of equipment to maintain/use (all in one style)
- Reduce radiation dose by up to 30%
Attendees at the Support the Girls Golf Tournament 2019
portable ultrasound
Made possible by a gift from a generous donor – Stephen Lister and Dr. Molly Rundle, a new portable ultra sound machine was purchased, providing innovative imaging in a portable format. As a doctor, Molly understands the “need for speed” when an Emergency Department physician is trying to diagnose an illness or injury and treat a patient quickly. Having access to portable imaging resources that can come to the patient allows for early and accurate diagnosis and quick treatment.
- Can be carried to wherever the patient is to diagnose and treat patients promptly.
- Can be moved from room to room to provide proper and timely diagnosis with the high-quality imaging
- Doctors do not have to wait for reports and can diagnosis in real time, improving patient recovery.
- Takes up less space and can be moved from room to room instead of having to relocate the patient, particularly important in a busy emergency department where injuries may be critical and time sensitive.
Love Our Hospital
What a year! As the pandemic continued to push us apart, our community came together in support of our hospital and we continued to reach new heights in providing local healthcare. Without the leadership and generosity of our community this would not have been possible. I feel truly privileged to live in a community that continually steps up to show their love
love for our hospital. As we look to the future it is clear that the West Parry Sound community can overcome anything TOGETHER!
Thank you!
Christine McKernan
Executive Director
Power of Working Together
$177,000
Received from
Estates & Wills
$530,000
Received from
Northern Angel Donors
$83,000
Received from
Community Partners
$201,890
Received from
Signature Events
Our Community is Full of Powerful People
Northern Angels
Our Northern Angels pledge their support to the hospital over a 5 year term providing a pool of funding that can be utilized when it is needed most, for the highest priority or emergency needs of the hospital. Together our Northern Angels have committed to gifts totaling over $530,000.
Signature Events
Walk Run Pole - even when we could not get together in person, our community mobilized to ensure that our hospital had the funds needed to support cardiac care at the Health Centre. Our virtual event brought community members together to set fitness goals and raise funds. Raising $201,890 – our most successful Walk ever.
Estate Giving
This year over $177,000 was received from gifts from estates/wills and deposited into the Forever Fund. As this Endowed Fund grows, it provides the sustainable funding that will ensure that the West Parry Sound Health Centre Foundation has the funds needed to support innovation, expanded services and state of the art equipment to care for our growing healthcare needs.
Community Partners
We all have the power to make our community the best it can be. Our community partnerships with 103.3 Moose FM, Fancy Pants Charities, Royal Canadian Legion #117, and Get Off the Bus Concerts through the sharing the proceeds from their events with the West Parry Sound Health Centre, collectively raising over $83,000. The efforts of these amazing community partners ensure that your healthcare is here where and when we need it. Thank you!!!
Financial Summary
Total Expenses: $475,515
Total Disbursements to WPSHC: $2,457,515
Statement of Operations and Fund Balance
(year ending March 31, 2022)
REVENUE
Fundraising
Investment Income
$2,883,281
$448,253
$3,331,534
Expenses
Fundraising expenses
Administrative costs
Salaries and benefits
$77,764
$131,116
$266,635
$475,515
Excess of revenue over expenses before disbursements
$2,856,019
Disbursements to WPSHC
Excess of revenue over expenses
$2,457,515
$398,504
Fund balance - beginning of year
Fund balance - end of year
$5,892,457
$6,290,961
Thanks to the dedication of our generous donor and volunteer community, the Foundation achieved a low administrative expenditure ratio of 14.3%. This means you can trust that an ever-larger proportion of your donation goes directly to where it matters most.
For full financial statements, please visit:
Governance
Kim Karges, Chair
We at the Hospital Foundation are truly honoured to work with you, our Community, to support West Parry Sound Health Centre. Your donations make the difference that ensures our Health Centre delivers exceptional health care where we live, work, and play. We thank you for all you do to keep our Community safe. In this fast-paced, ever-changing health care environment, please know your support has never been more important.
2021-2022
Board of Directors
Kim Karges
Chair
Joan Conn
Past Chair
Edward Reeser
Treasurer
Donald Sanderson
WPSHC CEO
Mike McGarrell
WPSHC Representative
Carrolle Gray
WPSHC Auxiliary Representative
Debbie Bongard
Director
Susan Hawkins
Director
Suzanne Koenderman
Director
Julie Hozian
Director
Ann MacDiarmid
Director
Brett LaGamba
Director
Dr. Margaret Rundle
Director
Donor Recognition
Community Partners
Fancy Pants Charities
Northern Angel Donors
Richard and Margaret Asbury
Lynne Atkinson
Wesley and Lucia Begg
Andy and Tonia Blenkarn
Derek and Nancy Bowen
Reid Bowlby and Debbie Bongard
Brian and Jan Bornstein
David and Joanne Browne
David and Wendy Bunston
Bob and Sheila Burk
Jack Cashman and Frances Carmichael
The Catherine and Fredrik Eaton Charitable Foundation
Emilie Chesher
David and Joan Conn
John and Margaret Flynn
Ken and Winfer Foster
Matt and Nicole French
Bruce and Susan Gibbon
Rob and Carrolle Gray
The Green Family Charitable Trust
Stephen Goldhar and Nancy Cohen
Peter Gundy
Judy Hatcher
Jim and Wendy Hawes
Ian and Adair Hope
Brad Horne and Heidi Stephenson
Sam Bennett of the Jalynn H. Bennett Foundation
Jim and Kim Karges
The Jim Meekison & Carolyn Keystone Foundation
Marnie Kinsley
Kirsh Family
Suzanne Koenderman
Cully and Jackie Koza
Alfred and Gayle Kwinter
Robert Lantos
The Lloyd-Carr Harris Foundation
Ann MacDiarmid
Cheryle Madigan
Bruce and Alison McDonald
Ian and Marjory McDonald
McLean Family
Earle and Berna Nestmann
The Nosreap Family Foundation
Rosemary Phelan
David Pitfield and Cathy Bongard
Jeff and Sandra Quathamer
Deborah Randall-Wood and Pat Maltby
Andrew and Suzanne Redmond
Edward Reeser and Elizabeth Forster
Gail Regan
Donald and Karen Sanderson
Peter and Catherine Singer
Dirk Soutendijk
Michael and Norma Tangney
Jane Whitwell
Estate Gifts
Estate of Mona Bennett
Estate of William & Annie Berry
Estate of Douglas Blunt
Estate of France Desjardin
Estate of Albert Desmasdon
Estate of Lydia Dewar
Estate of Gerald Geddes
Estate of Anne Gibson
Estate of Robb Hindson
Estate of Steve & Joan Hurd
Estate of Kenneth Johnson
Estate of Tom Kellington
The Family of Ian & Bonnie MacDonald
Estate of Peter Marrek
Estate of Frances McKenzie
Estate of Kenneth Platt
Estate of Alma Saad
Estate of Stewart Strength
Estate of Inez & Bert Taylor
Estate of Diane Margaret Wallace
Estate of Eric Walton
The Estate of Cameron Wardlaw
Estate of Catherine Wheatley
Estate of John McAulay
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