Your Community. Your Hospital. Your Foundation.

Our long-time partnership with the Lions Clubs International Foundation and the six Lions clubs of Chilliwack, Agassiz and Hope has resulted in Chilliwack General Hospital improvements that have now surpassed the million-dollar level…the largest project being the creation of the Mt Cheam Lions Eye Centre. The latest undertaking is a suite of mammogram machines whose technology both speeds and enhances procedures. Enabling faster and more accurate imaging, diagnoses, and biopsy retrieval, the system is state-of-the-art and the envy of any hospital mammographic unit.

Mount Cheam and Steller’s Jays Lions Club

The Auxiliary to the Fraser Canyon Hospital and Fraser Hope Lodge is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing a variety of volunteer support services and fundraising initiatives to assist in the continuation and growth of health care services for Fraser Canyon Hospital and Fraser Hope Lodge.

Auxiliary to Fraser Canyon Hospital and Fraser Hope Lodge

The Mission Health Care Auxiliary is an organization of men and women who help Mission Memorial Hospital provide non-medical services and comforts to the patients of the hospital. Members can be identified by their blue vests.

Money raised by the Auxiliary is used for many health-related services at the Mission Memorial Hospital and local health care facilities to purchase equipment, comforts, and bus services. The challenge continues to try to ensure that Mission Memorial Hospital remains a viable hospital that can serve the immediate needs of the community. The Mission Health Care Auxiliary Society has always been there to help and assist in any way it can.

Mission Health Care Auxiliary

In 2007, the Crystal Gala Foundation pledged a lead gift of $500,000 to A Campaign for Health Care Excellence to ensure that hospital patients receive the best possible treatment and care. The Breast Health Unit for screening mammography is named after the Crystal Gala. In 2010, a further $500,000 was pledged and with the generous support of the Crystal Gala sponsors, donors and guests, the Foundation fulfilled this $1M commitment in 2014. The Fraser Health’s Abbotsford Breast Health Centre has moved to a new space at Abbotsford Regional Hospital, thanks to a generous $500,000 pledge by the Crystal Gala Foundation through the Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation.

This gift will provide medical equipment and furnishings to ensure that staff have optimal space and access to technology, while providing the best treatment and comforting experience for patients in the new location.

The Crystal Gala

RE/MAX Little Oak Realty associates have donated over $185,000 to children’s health in Abbotsford since the Foundation began in 2000. Funds have gone towards the purchase of much needed medical equipment. In addition, interactive items such as TVs, computers, books, games, craft supplies and toys have been secured.

RE/MAX has given to the waiting room of the ER, waiting room and treatment rooms of Pediatrics, teen lounge of Pediatrics, and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In 2012, the W.I.T. (Whatever It Takes) Fund was established to help families facing financial hardship due to their child’s hospitalization. Next was the Kids’ TV Program that covers the cost of child-friendly TV for hospitalized kids. In 2014, they expanded their support to mental health programs for adolescents.

RE/MAX’s Todd Hendrickson, “Our goal is to make kids as comfortable as possible while they’re hospitalized.”

Re/Max Little Oak Realty Group

Rotary Club of Chilliwack Fraser donated over $100,000 to the Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation for the purpose of creating a new Paediatric Observation Unit at Chilliwack General Hospital.

The new paediatric observation model is a ‘hybrid’ program, combining a 4 – 6 bed short stay assessment/monitoring area (with enhanced outpatient services) and a new urgent paediatrician referral service designed to improve communication with community teams. Emergency Room (ER) Physicians and Paediatricians agreed to change their models of care, nurse/physician groups from both the ER and Paediatrics developed inclusion/exclusion criteria and patient flow algorithms, and hospital services (Pharmacy, Registration) agreed to support changes required.

Rotary Club of Chilliwack – Fraser

The Auxiliary to Abbotsford Regional Hospital provide volunteers to assist in the following areas of the acute care hospital: Surgical Day Care, General Day Care, Emergency, Pediatrics, Medical Imaging, Information/Greeting desk. The Auxiliary sponsors a teen volunteer program at the Cottage Worthington Residential Care facility.

They also provide track suits and underwear for victims of sexual assault. The Auxiliary supplies clothing to be given to people in need to facilitate their discharge from hospital. They also purchase medical equipment and patient comfort items for the hospital. Just the top 10 of their many volunteers served more than 16,000 hours in 2014.

Auxiliary to Abbotsford Regional Hospital

The Chilliwack Hospital Auxiliary is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing a variety of volunteer support services and fundraising initiatives to assist in the continuation and growth of health care services for Chilliwack General Hospital.

The members contribute to the quality of patient care through a number of services and raise funds to assist in the purchasing of hospital equipment.

Chilliwack Hospital Auxiliary