Chair's Message

Our vision is central to our success - "To Provide Extraordinary Support for Health Care in Cottage Country".  Our vision focuses us on the demanding task of buying much-needed equipment for the West Parry Sound Health Centre.

Whether you cottage, camp or live permanently in the Georgian Bay area, the West Parry Sound Health Centre offers you the only Emergency Department along the 300K route between Barrie and Sudbury.  Sudbury is 165 km north; Barrie is 135 km south; and Toronto is 225 km south.

Being a hospital isolated on a 400 series highway and situated amidst large bodies of water means our medical team manages a broad scope of emergencies - everything from highway tragedies, to boating or snowmobile injuries, drownings, heart attacks, rattlesnake bites and a wide variety of other trauma.

I'm always mindful of the extraordinary gifts we receive from volunteers and our donor community.  A number of local organizations host events that are an inspiration to the Health Centre.  We have golfers who contribute much through the "Breast Cancer Awareness Tournament", "the Ken Brown Memorial Tournament" and "Health Centre's Spring Classic".  We have curlers contributing to "Think Pink on the Rink" by pledging donations to our much needed mammography machine.  Hundreds ride, walk or roll pledging their distances to support our local cardiac rehab patients living with heart disease.  We receive tribute donations for $10, $25 or $50 which are so very important to us.  We sell bingo cards and print our winning numbers in Lifestyles the last week of each month.

We are committed.  Won't you join us?  Please browse our site.  Make a donation.  Get to know how important the Health Centre is to the folks living or visiting in our remote area.  Help us "provide extraordinary support for health care in cottage country".  We can only do it with you!



Gill Fargher
Foundation Chair