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Welcome to the March 2009 Newsletter for the G&M Hospital Foundation. Your feedback and comments are appreciated. Please contact us at foundation@cgmh.on.ca if you would like more information regarding an article featured, or if you have a suggestion for a particular topic or area of the Hospital that interests you.
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Our Donors Make Miracles Happen!
We are doing it all with your help!
The Foundation's annual Tree of Life Campaign in December kicked off a very successful campaign to raise funds to replace the now defunct fluoroscopy/x-ray unit at the G&M Hospital. To date almost $600,000 has been raised and the new unit is now on order and should arrive in May.
The original budget of $750,000 to replace the old unit has now been increased to $1,080,000 to allow the G&M to purchase the newest available x-ray technology. DR or Digital Radiography x-ray units give off about 80% less radiation to both patients and staff than the Hospital's existing x-ray unit. DR is also much faster and more efficient technology, allowing the G&M's technologists to complete more than twice the volume of x-ray exams in the same time period. This is particularly important to your Hospital as the second x-ray room is also beginning to breakdown. DR technology will allow the same patient volumes to be examined in just one functioning room.
Although X-ray imaging is a very basic diagnostic tool when compared to CT and MRI imaging, it provides the lowest radiation dose to the patient (one chest CT scan has equivalent radiation to approximately 200 chest x-ray exams) and so is generally the first diagnostic tool to be used in the case of bone fractures. If necessary, the patient may later receive a CT scan if the x-ray image displays further complications.
The G&M performs more x-rays than many hospitals its size (over 25,000 x-rays last year) as it deals with a higher than average volume of recreation related injuries and illnesses and injuries suffered by our large seniors population. That's why reaching our new goal of $1,080,000 is so very important!
Thank you for your continued support!
New Fluoroscopy/x-ray unit on order
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Annual Dinner May 24th, 2009
Please join us
Sunday May 24th, 2009
at the Craigleith Ski Club
when we welcome author
Lawrence Hill
 Influenced by the social activism of his parents, Mr. Hill's work deals with the issues of identity and belonging as well as the historical journey of black people in Canada.
Hill's popular novel, "The Book of Negroes" just won CBC Radio's "Canada Reads" contest, won the overall 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the 2007 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. This masterful and epic novel will form part of the subject of his talk at the Annual Dinner. Please join us!
We also have copies of "The Book of Negroes" at the Foundation office for $20 (taxes included). To listen to CBC Radio's interview with Lawrence Hill, click here.
Tickets are selling swiftly; only 8 tables are left!
Call to reserve your ticket by calling (705) 444-8645
or order online at www.cgmhf.com
$125.00 per person
with charitable tax receipt $60.00
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Christie/Cummings 10th Annual Ski Day
The 2009 event was held on Feb. 18th at Osler Ski Club and was another resounding success, raising $28,500 towards the new fluoroscopy/x-ray unit. This unit is used in the diagnosis of orthopaedic cases, so it's a great fundraising cause for the Christie/Cummings ski and snowboarding event.
 "We really enjoy taking part in the Christie/ Cummings Hospital Ski Day. It is great to support our Hospital while skiing with friends. The conditions at Osler were perfect, there were great silent auction items and apres ski was a lot of fun. Thanks to the organizers and sponsors for another great day at this years event!" says Lisa Hansen, pictured above (middle) with husband Jeff Hansen and friend Ria Findlay.
"Nancy and I look forward to the Christie/Cummings Hospital Ski Day every year," says Phil Havens, owner of Thornbury Home Hardware. "It is a fun, well organized event for a good cause."
Jen Christie (far left), Chair of the Organizing Team for the Christie/Cummings Annual Hospital Ski Day with Brian Saunderson, Stephen Johnson, Mary Anne Cummings, Erin Flynn and Stephen Christie of Christie/Cummings Barristers & Solicitors present a cheque for $28,500 to Jan Trude (far right), Chair of the G&M Hospital Foundation.
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G&M Golf Classic
September 9th, 2009
Don't Miss This Sell-Out Event!
Registration has already begun; don't delay. Foursomes are filling up fast; only 15 foresomes are left!
Join us at The Mad River Golf Club Wednesday Sept. 9th for a fun filled day. Sign in at 10 am. Lunch at 11:00am and Shotgun Start at 12pm. Your day of golf is followed up with a dinner and silent auction; a perfect end to a great event.
Registrations can be completed over the phone by calling (705) 444-8644. Full payment of $250.00 per person must be made at time of registration. You will receive a $125.00 charitable donation receipt.
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Thank you to the following donors who dream with us ...
G&M Hospital Foundantion Chair Jan Trude (far right) receives a cheque for $7,500 from the Royal Cdn. Legion - Ontario Provincial Command Branches & Ladies Auxiliaries Charitable Foundation to help purchase a Transesophagael Ultrasound Probe for the G&M Hospital. Other local hospitals do not perform these tests. This device helps to better see and detect heart problems without any interference from other organs and provides clearer pictures than a regular echocardiogram. With Trude are, from left, Rob Graham, President, Branch #63, Maggie Henderson, President, Branch #63 Ladies Auxiliary and Marjorie Beauregard, Secretary Branch #63 Ladies Auxiliary.
 Jan Trude, Foundation Chair, receiving a cheque for $25,000 from Rob Magwood of the Pete Crompton Foundation as part of their fundraising at the Pete Would Go Ski Day at the Osler Bluff Ski Club on March 6th.
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Volunteering Can Help Raise Funds
Many companies support the volunteer work of employees, both present and retired, by making monitary donations to organizations for which you volunteer. Some companies will even match your donation.
If your employer (past or present) supports initiatives like this, let us know and we can assist with the paperwork to apply for a donation to the G&M Hospital Foundation.
Please contact the Foundation at (705) 444-8645 for more information.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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