Announcement – January 6, 2025
50/50 winner of $3,115 is Margie Dean
Echocardiogram Fundraising Campaign
Amazing News!
WE HAVE ATTAINED OUR $250,000 TARGET FOR THE ECHO ULTRASOUND. THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO DONATEED AND PLEDGED. WE WILL HAVE A FULL DETAIL RECAP OF THE GIVING TUESDAY DEC 3RD KICK-OFF AND PICTURES. ANY EXCESS DONATIONS WILL BE DESIGNATED TOWARDS THE IMAGING DEPARTMENT FOR FUTURE PROJECTS.
OUR MOST SINCERE THANK YOU FOR A GIVING TUESDAY THAT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!
Why an Echo?
The echocardiogram ultrasound is an important tool for physicians. It uses soundwaves to scan the heart and nearby blood vessels to produce a picture (echocardiogram). This picture provides information as to the function and structure of the heart. The echocardiogram can be used to monitor the heart and diagnose certain diseases such as:
- damage from a heart attack
- heart failure
- congenital heart disease
- problems with the heart valves
- endocarditis
- and cardiomyopathy
This machine will:
- Save time
- Provide a rapid diagnosis
- Save patients from having to travel along busy and dangerous highways
- Free up ambulances and paramedics during a patient transfer
- Increase the capacity of the ultrasound department
Learn More about the Echocardiogram Ultrasound Machine: The Philips EPIQ ELITE ULTRASOUND
Amazing news: we have attained our target of $250,000 in less than 3 days! THANK-YOU REVELSTOKE!
The 50/50 will still run until January 3rd, 2025. All excess funds raised will go towards future Imaging Department projects. The Hospital Foundation is always working to help QVH and the residents who rely on it!
HOW TO DONATE:
ONLINE
Donate online through the CanadaHelps website and a tax deductible receipt will be issued directly to you upon payment.
IN PERSON
Revelstoke Credit Union: drop off your donation at the bank teller, an account has been set up under “Revelstoke Health Foundation echocardiogram ultrasound fundraiser.” The teller will take your contact info and a tax deductible receipt for any donations $20 or over will be sent to you via Canada Post.
Mail cheques payable to The Revelstoke District Health Foundation to the following address:
Ornament Campaign
WE HAVE ATTAINED OUR $250,000 TARGET! THANK-YOU REVELSTOKE!
*ALL DONORS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED $100 OR MORE WILL BE RECEIVING A CERAMIC HEART*
If you wish to still make a $100 donation in a person’s memory or honor we will ship a 4″ handcrafted ceramic heart ornament to them or to you.* Proceeds from the sales will go to the Echocardiogram fundraising campaign for Queen Victoria Hospital. Starting Dec 7/24 all the proceeds will be designated to the next imaging department project.
Click the button below to fill out a Google Form and participate in this campaign.
*Due to the Canada Post strike, orders will not be shipped until the labour disruption has ended.
Fundraising 50/50
Congratulations winner of $3,115 is Margie Dean. Thank-you to everyone who supported by purchasing tickets!
Help support future projects by purchasing 50/50 tickets through Rafflebox!
Proceeds from the 50/50 raffle will go towards future projects in the Imaging Department at Queen Victoria Hospital. One lucky winner could win up to $10,000.*
Ticket sales start on December 3rd, 2024 and end on January 3rd, 2025. The winner will be drawn on Monday, January 6th, 2025 at 12 noon (PST).
Click the button to purchase your tickets today!
*amount based on full sellout of tickets
Purchasers must be 19 years of age or older and must be BC residents. BC residents cannot purchase tickets on behalf of non-residents.
BC Gaming Event License #155787
TICKET PRICES:
1 ticket for $10 (limit: 64)
4 tickets for $20 (limit: 112)
20 tickets for $50 (limit: 380)
100 tickets for $100 (limit: 40)
News & Updates
Browse photos from the Echo Fundraiser:
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- Revelstoke Hospital Auxiliary and their $25,000 donation
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- Event at QVH
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- Event at QVH
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- Mengia Nicholson, Sandy Thygesen, and Linda Nixon at Southside Market
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- Kim Mead, IH Manager for Imaging in Revelstoke, talking about the future of imaging for Revy
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- Event at QVH (yum!) Cake by Nicole Mckenzie.
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- Steven Hui, Sandy Thygesen, and Bill Shuttleworth at Southside Market
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- Fundraising at Save-On Foods
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- RDHF board members Sandy Thygesen, Carol Dolliver, Steven Hui, Margaret Zielonka, Bev Wiege
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- Steven Hui, Peter Bernacki presenting his $2000 donation, Sandy Thygesen
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- Revelstoke Freemasons and their $10,000 donation
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- Steven Hui, Jackie Heppel (donor) and Sandy Thygesen
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- RCU Donation
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- Donation reached!
Fundraising Update:
Congratulations Revelstoke! Over $250,000 was raised in less than 3 days to purchase an echocardiogram ultrasound for Queen Victoria Hospital. You continue to show how we care for one another.
The purchase of the echocardiogram ultrasound will have instant impact to our community. A
hire of an additional time ultrasound technician will shorten wait times for general ultrasounds and thus provide more rapid diagnosis and treatment. Being able to do echocardiogram scans locally will mean 400-500 people a year will not have to drive to a hospital out of town.
The Revelstoke District Health Foundation had its kick-off ceremony for the echocardiogram ultrasound fundraising campaign on Giving Tuesday Dec. 3rd 10:30am at Queen Victoria Hospital. A full list of donors can be found below.
The Foundation was over $180,000 by conclusion of kick off ceremony. Donations came in throughout the day – e-transfers, via the CanadaHelp website, cheques/cash at our manned displays and Save-on Foods and Southside Market. By end of our kick-off day our total was $192,000!
On Wednesday Dec 4th at 3pm, the Revelstoke Credit Union stepped up with a $30K donation and by 8pm that evening we had surpassed our $250,000 goal!
As we surpassed our $250,000 target – all surplus funds will be designated
towards future imaging department projects.
A complete listing of donors will be available soon online at the Health
Foundation website. In addition, there will be a permanent donor recognition display at the
imaging department at Queen Victoria Hospital.
This campaign also had dozens of volunteers, donations of materials/services, discounts from all the media, donations in kind from many businesses – we could not have done it without all of you.
Amazed, astounded, overwhelmed, ecstatic, marvelous, proud, humbled – there is a not a single word that could capture all the emotions from last week.
On behalf of Interior Health and The Revelstoke District Health Foundation our most sincere thank-you for the outpouring of support and generosity.
Thank you to our generous donors:
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