Whistler Health Care Foundation
- Responding with care
What We Do
Raise Funds
- Hold and participate in Fundraising events
- Procedure Grants
- Collaborate with other organizations for health care support
- Recruit and communicate with donors
Raise Awareness
- Health care needs
- Health care issues
- Whistler Health Care Foundation services
- The future vision of health care in Whistler
Who we help
Last year, the Whistler Health Care Centre treated over 23,000 residents and visitors for medical emergencies That's a huge increase from the 500 patients per year treated when the centre first opened in 1981. The growning popularity of summer activities such as extreme mountain biking, the Mountain Bike Park and the ski and snowboard camps are providing increasing challenges to teh participants and to the centre.A brief history
Marnie Simon (WHCF), Paul Foster & Jim DeLeon (GE ) admire the photo of a CT scanner to be donated by GE as an Olympic legacy for the Sea to Sky corridor.
Dr. Annie Gareau practices her ultrasound skills on Rod Rhoda, chairperson for American Friends of Whistler, as he hands a cheque for $50,000 to Marnie Simon, WHCF for the purchase of the bedside ultrasound.
Five new heart monitors were recently purchased for the Whistler Health Clinic thanks to donations from our community friends with further financial help from the Whistler Health Care Foundation. Left to right: Mary Forseth (board member with the American Friends of Whistler - $10,000), health clinic R.N. Fran Humphrey, Chuck Blaylock (representing the Whistler Hockey Association - $10,000), D.J. Postlethwaite (Whistler Ratepayers Association - $5,000), and Marnie Simon, chair of the Whistler Health Care Foundation. Missing: Chris Qinlan of the Dave Sheets Memorial Fund - who donated $10,000 and was topped up to $16,000 by the WHCF to purchase an advanced level monitor.
Joan Dalgleish, head radiology technician with Louise Lundy, director, Whistler Blackcomb Foundation view the film developing equipment that will soon be replaced with Teleradiology. WBF donated $50,000 to the project. Benefits of the technology include networked access to images from any health care site, reduction of staff exposure to harmful x-ray film processing fumes, better environmental practices and reduction of patient transfers to Squamish or Vancouver.
