A HUGE Thank You for setting up our local healthcare team to respond so quickly to this COVID-19 Pandemic. Once the virus hit Canada, our local hospital leaders moved fast to secure life-saving supplies for our frontline staff. This happened because of you. 

Within a few days, our hospital had life-saving supplies from the local community. There were some very relieved nurses watching these boxes arrive, and one doctor put it best: “This is about everyone in the building having the equipment they need, not just the doctors. We all need to feel like we can take a bullet for each other.”

Thanks to the strong support from all of you over many years, our frontline workers are empowered to care for all of us. While this unfolds across the globe, in Canada, and closer to home, we feel you all deserve an early-round of applause for your hard work and dedication to ensuring that our Lloydminster Hospital and other healthcare facilities are well prepared for anything.

If you’re looking for ways to help out more, we’ve started a COVID-19 Emergency Fund. There is no pressure to give in these uncertain times, but if you’d like to continue your support, we are taking donations to cover the following items:

Items purchased so far:

• personal protective equipment
• iPads for isolated residents and patients to connect with loved ones
• Care packages for staff, residents, and patients (blankets, sleep masks & toiletry products)
• Optiflow machines
• Dozens of amazing cards and letters
• Food, coffee and meal gift cards
• Parades on the street outside the hospital!

Items still on the local healthcare team’s wish list:

• Room Monitors (baby monitors)
• More iPads
• Optiflow Machines
• Mobile carts and shelves for added units
• More meal and coffee gift cards
• More amazing cards and letters
• Staying home and practicing social distancing

Please do not go to the Health Foundation office for delivery of donations or any local healthcare facilities. All pick-ups can be arranged. Cards and Letters can be mailed to the Health Foundation at 4910 50 St #116, Lloydminster, SK S9V 0Y5 where it will be quarantined for 5 days before receiving and distributing to facilities. 

Thank you for your continued incredible support!