Comfort & Care

Improving the hospital experience for patients and families at the QEII.

WHY YOU’RE NEEDED

TANGIBLE ENHANCEMENTS, ENTIRELY DONOR-FUNDED

QEII Foundation Comfort & Care grants are intended for projects that would not typically receive funding from the health centre’s operating or capital budgets. Frontline healthcare teams apply for grants of up to $5,000 – awarded to projects that demonstrate direct and immediate benefit to patients and/or their families.

Every year, QEII Foundation donors ensure $100,000 in Comfort & Care grants can be awarded to QEII departments – funding everything from stationary bikes for dialysis patients to starlight projectors that simulate the night sky around a hospital bed.

Alongside thousands of other supporters, your donation will help fuel this year's Comfort & Care grants; enabling the purchase of small comforts that can have an extraordinary impact and that otherwise wouldn't be available to patients, families and our healthcare teams.

Patient Loretta Joyce, enjoying a starlight projector funded by Comfort & Care Grants.

More grants, bigger impact. Awarded to healthcare teams each spring, your gift can have an immediate impact on patients and their families.

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Angela Oldford, QEII registered nurse, Cardiology Inpatient Unit

Firsthand patient impact

In 2024, the Cardiology Inpatient Unit at the QEII was able to purchase a blanket warmer thanks to donor funds through the Comfort & Care grant.

Oftentimes our patients come from the emergency department, and they're feeling unwell, or they are arriving in the middle of the night, or they've just had a procedure, and they're shivering and shaky. Giving them a warm blanket is a source of comfort when they're at their most vulnerable. Patients will often say, ‘This is just what I needed.’

These little things are what make the difference as to how somebody perceives their stay in hospital. And if we can improve that in any way, then I think we should do it.

YOUR IMPACT

When you support the QEII Foundation’s Comfort and Care grant program today, you’ll help fund items like:

FAMILY ROOM FURNITURE — offering families and friends a comfortable space to rest

BLANKET WARMERS — giving patients a warm blanket to comfort and calm them

SOUND MACHINES — bringing ocean waves to the bedside

HEALTH EDUCATION — supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals on their care journey

CHARGING STATIONS — reducing anxiety surrounding an often-forgotten item

STARLIGHT PROJECTORS — simulating a night sky around a hospital bed

TRANSLATION DEVICES — connecting patients to interpreters through video calls

DONORS MAKE IT POSSIBLE

Since 2005, more than $2.1 million in Comfort and Care grants have been awarded to frontline healthcare teams. 100 per cent donor-funded, these grants would not be possible without the extraordinary support of our community.