Our Vision: Inspired Giving. Keeping Hospital Care Local.
Our Mission: To raise and steward as much money as possible to meet the identified needs of the hospital in Parry Sound.
Working together with health care professionals, patients, our community and government, The West Parry Sound Health Centre Foundation’s goal is to continually raise funds to support the on-going medical needs of the people who choose to live and cottage here.
Serving a population that fluctuates from 21,000 upwards to 121,000 during the peak summer season in the Parry Sound area, the West Parry Sound Health Centre’s services are diverse. The unique bundle of programs offered would not be possible without the generous support, commitment and dedication of our community.
Our three main lines of business at the West Parry Sound Health Centre Foundation are: Fundraising, Investment Management and Stewardship.
Our Values
Our Goals
Fundraising:
To meet the current equipment needs of the Health Centre, the Foundation’s goal is to raise $2.2 million in fundraising revenue by March 31, 2020 (end of the fiscal year 2019/2020). In October 2019, the Health Centre went live with a modernization project totalling a $10,000,000 investment. The Foundation is committed to raising that money over 5 years. In 2019/2020, the Foundation grossed $2,214,441. Between January 2017 and January 2020, the Foundation’s EHR transfers total $4.2 million.
Currently, the Foundation holds $3.6 million in its endowed fund. All estates received by the Foundation are transferred into our Forever Fund (endowed fund). Interest/dividends from the invested capital on this fund buys equipment on the medical priority list annually.
Money Transferred to the Health Centre:
In 2019, the Foundation continues to fund emergency equipment purchases as critical items break. In 2019, our biggest emergency challenge is buying a new CT scanner. A year ago, we received the end of life notice from Siemens on our 13-year-old machine. In this past year, we have been speaking to donors about funding the new $1.4 million CT scanner (on top of EHR). Four seasonal families have joined together to make our new CT scanner a reality. The generosity of our supporters in heartwarming. This year, we will transfer $700,000 towards the CT scanner with the remaining $700,000 pledged over 5 years.
Emergency purchases like the CT scanner are on top of our goal of transferring an additional $2.5 million towards the EHR modernization. Completing payment on the modernization will take extraordinary donor support! For details on transfers, please read our Donor Impact section.
Investing:
To achieve a competitive rate of return in the General and Restricted fund given the short-term nature of our payment commitment.
Operational Efficiency:
To honour our Donors and direct their donations to providing extraordinary health care in cottage country.
The West Parry Sound Health Centre — helping you to ‘stay put’ in Canada’s rugged grandness.
Providing extraordinary support to keep hospital care local.
On April 8, 2005 through the combined efforts of seasonal and year-round residents and all three levels of government, a new health centre opened in Georgian Bay cottage country. Situated several hours away from larger centres, the 70-bed acute care facility is an innovative health care institution co-located with Lakeland Long Term Care, home to 110 residents.
The Foundation’s challenge is to secure the funds to ensure the Health Centre stays current with technologies that best serves our population that fluctuates annually from 21,000 to 110,000 people during the peak summer season. The health centre has a history of strong financial management along with the delivery of exceptional services in community health care.
Management
Programs
The health centre has always employed an innovative planning approach aimed at integrating services. Faced with the challenges of relative isolation between larger health care providers in southern and northern Ontario, WPSHC has partnered in regional alliances and created internal programming solutions that have benefited patient and family centred care through improvements to primary and acute-care service delivery throughout the catchment area, and beyond. What results today is a highly integrated healthcare organization that includes: Lakeland Long Term Care; six primary care Nursing Stations staffed by Nurse Practitioners who work in collaborative practice with a visiting physician; management of the District of Parry Sound land ambulance service and dispatch; and a full range of in-patient and out-patient programs, including a full-time 24-7 Emergency Department.
WPSHC operates the Ontario Massasauga Rattlesnake Antivenom Depot, managing the supply of this valuable medicine and setting the treatment guidelines for clinical professionals throughout the province.
Partnerships
PHILANTHROPY is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life. To assure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the not-for-profit organizations and causes they are asked to support, we declare that all donors have these rights:
Chair
Past Chair
Treasurer
Realtor
VP & Sr Wealth Advisor
Owner of iSparks Solutions
Chair, WPSHC Board
Auxiliary Representative
Part Owner, Joseph’s Ceramic & Tile
Retired Teacher
Owner, Tempcast Masonry Heaters
Mayor, Seguin Township
Retired Family Physician
CEO WPSHC
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