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Where your money goes
When you make a donation to the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, you’re making a life-changing difference for Stollery kids and their families by supporting the Hospital’s most urgent needs and long-term priorities. Learn how your gifts are making a difference at the Hospital below.
In recognition of Simply Supper’s Lemonade Stand Day raising more than $2 million since 2014, the newly renovated family room at the Stollery’s Phillip C. Etches Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Alexandra Hospital will now be known as the Simply Supper’s Lemon Love Bear’s Den.
The 14th Annual Stollery Family Day Classic, powered by ENMAX, has scored more than $574,000 in gross revenue to support world-class care at the Stollery Children’s Hospital.
Thanks to the partnership between the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Mike Petryk School of Dentistry at the University of Alberta, hundreds of kids receive essential oral care they need each year, for free.
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children, affecting nearly 850,000 Canadian children under the age of 14. Thanks to research supported by the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation through WCHRI, researchers are exploring ways to more accurately diagnose asthma in children.
Thanks to funding received from WCHRI and the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, Dr. West’s team is well on their way to launching a new diagnostic assay to measure ABO antibodies.
Thanks to your generosity, we can purchase state-of-the-art equipment such as a fetal echo ultrasound machine for the Stollery Children’s Hospital’s Fetal & Neonatal Cardiology Program at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
Through your generosity, we’re supporting excellence in all three Stollery neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) sites by inviting expert Stollery NICU nurses to pursue further education at the University of Alberta to become neonatal nurse practitioners.
Your donations have funded and grown the Stollery Neonatal Home Support Team (NHST) for the past five years, leading to significantly improved outcomes for pre-term infants and allowing them to stay where they thrive the best – at home with their families.