HSC Foundation Launches Corporate Challenge to Amplify Fundraising Efforts
Sep 20, 2024
Business community invited to contribute to Operation Excellence in support of health care at HSC Winnipeg
Join HSC Foundation in shaping the future of health care by making a lasting impact through your generosity.
Since its launch in 2022, the Health Sciences Centre Foundation’s Operation Excellence fundraising campaign has ignited a movement within the community, aimed at revolutionizing surgical care at Health Sciences Centre—Manitoba’s hospital.
This ambitious campaign strives to significantly reduce surgical wait times, enhance patient care, and attract and retain top-tier surgical talent to HSC, all while alleviating the pressures on HSC’s Emergency Department. As progress continues, the HSC Foundation is now calling on business leaders to play a pivotal role.
“The campaign is going well. Donors are hearing the message and responding generously. New equipment is already in use, and new surgeons have joined the HSC team,” says Ray Bouchard, HSC Foundation Board member and Co-Chair of the Operation Excellence Corporate Challenge. “But to accelerate the campaign, to feel the full impact, we’ve launched the Operation Excellence Corporate Challenge.”
Katie Hall Hursh, Vice Chair of the HSC Foundation Board and Co-Chair of the Operation Excellence Corporate Challenge, and Ray Bouchard, HSC Foundation Board member and Co-Chair of the Operation Excellence Corporate Challenge.
“We’re inviting businesses to step forward with a $250,000 gift to be recognized as a Leader, or a $100,000 gift to be recognized as a Founder. All gifts are payable over five years. And all gifts will make a significant difference in the care provided by HSC,” says Katie Hall Hursh, Vice Chair of the HSC Foundation Board and Co-Chair of the Operation Excellence Corporate Challenge.
To date, Operation Excellence has enabled HSC to acquire critical pieces of technology, including an advanced navigational system for neurosurgery that allows surgeons to pinpoint the location of abnormalities in the brain, and a new urology tower and flexible scopes equipped with cameras, allowing surgeons to find and remove problematic tissue through the smallest incisions possible.
Along with equipment purchases, the campaign is also funding vital infrastructure upgrades, such as the expansion of HSC’s Pain Clinic, and the development of new operating rooms at the former Women’s Hospital on Notre Dame Ave. and within the Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine.
Operation Excellence strives to significantly reduce surgical wait times, enhance patient care, and attract and retain top-tier surgical talent to HSC, all while alleviating the pressures on HSC’s Emergency Department.
With continued momentum, Operation Excellence will equip our health care professionals with essential enhancements, such as a high-acuity surgical step-down unit, a specialized operating room for stroke patients, and more.
The HSC Foundation is urging business leaders to step forward and contribute to this transformative campaign to help improve health care for their families, their employees, and all Manitobans.
“With your support, HSC’s surgeons can have the equipment they need to do their best work, so Manitobans and our patients from Nunavut and Northwestern Ontario can live their best lives,” says Bouchard. “That’s what Operation Excellence is all about.”
For more information, contact Tansey Buike at [email protected] or 204-953-2798.
To watch a video on the Corporate Challenge, please click here.
