What we do

The Caritas Hospitals Foundation’s sole purpose is to support Covenant Health’s mission of, “Healing the Body, Enriching the Mind and Nurturing the Soul”, by raising funds to help support leading edge programs and services, purchase state of the art health care equipment and research and education. To learn more about the the programs and services the foundation supports our theme room campaign, view how your money helps or learn more about our history.

We raise the funds needed for this through a number of campaigns including, Everyone’s A Winner Golf Tournament, Longest Day of Golf, Easter Brunch & Banff Jasper Relay. We also have our annual Caritas Hospitals Lottery that starts in August and also our Caritas Hospitals Foundation Staff Lottery which has 77 draws for the fiscal year (April 09 – March 10). We also raise funds through our Annual Giving programs like Telefundraising which is a year round program and our Direct Mail campaigns in the Spring and Fall. Click here to view a list of our special events

How your money helps – 2008/2009

This past fiscal year we were able to raise $1.5 million to help with the New Continuing Care Centre – Villa Caritas at the Misericordia Community Hospital Campus.

New Continuing Care Centre – Villa Caritas is located on the Northeast corner of the Misericordia Community Hospital Campus

Prior years’ successes

iRSM (Institute for Reconstructive Sciences in Medicine) $230,000 to help purchase advance equipment for this unit at the Misericordia Community Hospital.

Excellence In Family Care Centre $500,000 to help purchase Incubator/Radiant warmers for the Intermediate Care Nursery at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital.

Minimal Invasive Surgical Unit over a two year period we raised $3.6 million to start 4 Surgical Centres of Excellence at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers $372,000 that helped to update this Unit with 2 new Chambers for Hyperbaric treatment used to help heal many ailments.

Electric Bed Renewal Project Edmonton General Continuing Care Centre $500,000 over a five year period.

Acute Palliative Care Grey Nuns Community Hospital $150,000 annually.

Innovative Breast Care Unit Misericordia Community Hospital $150,000, to help with the treatment of Breast Cancer.