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This holiday season, give the gift of health by honouring your health care hero or loved one with a donation. Your special gift will fund vital research, recruit, and train world-class health care workers, and equip them with the cutting-edge tools and technology they need to save and improve lives. Our hospitals and health care centres provide the best and most specialized health care for you and your loved ones when you need it most.

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Our impact is only made possible by you. Thanks to donor support, VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation has been transforming health care in BC for over 40 years.

Inspiring stories of care and resilience

Read the following incredible stories of patients and health care workers surviving and thriving after devastating accidents, overcoming disease and complex conditions including COVID-19 with the specialized care provided by the expert medical teams at VGH, UBC Hospital and GF Strong Rehab Centre.

It’s just a toothache. Or at least that’s what Joyce thought at the time. The pain would come and go so she wasn’t overly concerned, but Joyce mentioned it to her dentist who thought it was an infection and she was eventually referred to an oral surgeon.

What she learned turned her world upside-down. Joyce was suffering from a rare bone tumour called an ameloblastoma. It needed to be removed or it would soon leave Joyce unable to eat or speak. Without proper care, it could become fatal.

This is when she came to meet Dr. Prisman at VGH.

Read Joyce’s story

 

One morning in July 2019, Colin Dowler was returning to his boat parked at a logging camp in Ramsay Arm east of Campbell River. He had spent the previous day mapping out a route to climb Mount Doogie Dowler — a local mountain named after Colin’s late grandfather that he and his brother planned to hike together.

Nearly seven kilometres out from his boat, Colin’s life changed forever. While riding down the trail he came across a grizzly bear.

Read Colin’s story

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