Few actions are as meaningful as giving hope. Every year, thousands of people living in British Columbia turn to Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), UBC Hospital, GF Strong Rehab Centre, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, and Vancouver Community Health Services in their time of need. And every year, donors like you empower our clinical and research teams to provide solutions, deliver life-changing treatments and support over one million people on their health care journeys.
In the past year alone, more than 11,000 annual donors like you contributed over $7.3 million to power ground-breaking discoveries and outstanding care across our hospitals and health care centres. In so doing, you gave the gift of hope to countless individuals and their families.
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VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation is the leading charity investing in health care innovation in BC. When you partner with us, you ensure our health care teams are equipped with the best tools and equipment available. You enable our researchers to study and cure complex health conditions for the benefit of all of us in British Columbia. You power the future of health care.
Thank you for your generosity
Four Key Areas
of Support
$127 million in consolidated revenue, 2023-24
View the full 2024 Impact Report
Download the full Impact ReportAs 2022 drew to a close, Rod Alm was in a dark place. He had, in his own words, let himself go. He was badly out of shape and experiencing irregular heartbeats. “I was despairing, thinking I was going to die a lot younger than I thought, and it was my fault,” he recalls.
“Now I have hope and a lot of good reasons to live.”
Learn more.
Investing in a Healthier Future
Our health care teams and hospitals undertake life-changing work daily, providing specialized care to people from across the province. With your support, our teams are helping patients from across British Columbia chart a course to longer, healthier, happier lives. You are accelerating health care innovations such as enhanced imaging capabilities that lead to better diagnoses and more effective treatments. When you invest in our mission, you are investing in innovation, and empowering a constellation of people, places and programs that are advancing our understanding of the greatest health challenges of our times.
You are helping our medical and research teams see the path to better care, and helping the people we serve find their way to a healthier future. Thank you for being a vital member of our donor community.
Audited Financials and Annual Reports
Explore our audited financial statements to see how we manage and utilize donations to drive health care innovation.
Your Impact
Innovative chemical assisting
cancer surgeons
VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation is vital in driving health care innovation in BC. Thanks to support from donors like you, VGH has highly specialized equipment in the hands of the best cancer surgeons in BC, like Dr. Serge Makarenko. A neurosurgeon at VGH, Dr. Makarenko has recently begun using an innovative chemical called Gleolan to assist in his surgeries.
Gleolan is a fluorescent optical imaging agent used to highlight malignant tissue during surgery and enhances the visualization of the problematic tissue, empowering neurosurgeons to know precisely which areas to target surgically. For someone with a brain tumour, the benefits can be enormous, thanks to your generosity.
Seeing the difference – the future of diagnostic imaging
Our new 3T MRI machine, installed in early 2023, has had an immediate impact on care and research. In its first year, our imaging teams used this powerful technology to perform over 4,150 scans, its detailed images opening doors to better diagnoses, treatments and understanding.
Just a few of the benefits of the use of this state-of-the-art device include enabling our physicians to pinpoint the centre of an epileptic seizure; to provide precise guidance for brain tumour surgery and treatment; and to generate the enhanced vessel-wall images needed to identify the cause of strokes. We can see the difference your generosity has made.
Celebrating 2 5 years of healing art
The waiting rooms and corridors of VGH, UBC Hospital and GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre showcase the stunning works of some of Canada’s most acclaimed modern artists. This curated collection of more than 2,700 works of art represents the care and creativity of our community, gifted through the generosity of passionate artists and philanthropists.
For a quarter of a century VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation has been directly impacting healing by transforming our hospitals with art, inspiring art collections in other hospitals across Canada. Evidence shows that the display of visual art can have positive effects on health outcomes, including shorter length of stay in hospital, increased pain tolerance and decreased anxiety. That’s an impact worth celebrating.
Your gifts have funded crucial equipment and research, such as:
5 Cystoscopes 📍UBC Hospital – $94,000
2 Point of Care Ultrasound Machines📍South East & North East Urgent
Primary Care Centres – $121,800
5 Electrocardiography Machines📍Vancouver Acute – $110,546
1 Nerve Integrity Monitor📍VGH – $53,800
1 Cell Culture Incubator📍VCHRI – $28,500
And much more! Thank you for your generosity.
