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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Michelle Morrison - Health Services Manager

HEALTH SERVICES MANAGER, QEII’S CORONARY CARE UNIT AND CARDIOLOGY IMCU

A word from Michelle Morrison

Last year, our Coronary Care Unit (CCU) team was one of 44 departments who received a QEII Foundation Comfort and Care grant.

Donors, like you, enabled the purchase of much-needed furniture for our CCU Family Room; a space where families spend long hours and overnights, anxiously awaiting news while their loved one receives life-saving cardiac care.

This space will be home to new comfortable chairs – increasing the amount of seating for families and allowing a patient’s loved ones to rest and stay close by, 24 hours a day. When your spouse or parent is in critical condition right down the hall and news can change in an instant, these little comforts matter. It’s just one example of the impact you make possible when you support these grants.

Pictured: Michelle Morrison (far right) with members of the QEII’s Coronary Care Unit team, who are proud past recipients of several Comfort and Care grants. Each year, more than 1,700 patients from across Atlantic Canada arrive in the CCU, sometimes by air ambulance and, often, in critical condition following a heart attack or life-threatening heart event.

YOUR IMPACT

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

DONORS MAKE IT POSSIBLE

Since 2005, more than $1.77 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.