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Canada Helps will issue a charitable donation tax receipt for the full amount of the donation to the Friends of the Golden & District Hospital. The tax receipt will be emailed to you automatically. You can also print the tax receipt directly from the donation page. Your tax credit will vary depending on your level of donation. To calculate the tax credit visit the Canada Revenue agency website

East Kootenay Foundation for Health

Giving Thanks to the Golden & District Hospital

The Friends of the Golden & District Hospital have created an online crowd-funding page titled; “Giving Thanks to the Golden and District Hospital”. This page is hosted on the Canada Helps.org platform, a web site specifically designed for charities.

The online crowd funding page will open for donations on October 6^th and close on October 11^th 2015. Once the page goes live, details of the location of the page will be made available. Mark your calendar October 6^th to remind you to make a donation.

Canada Helps will issue a charitable donation tax receipt for the full amount of the donation. The tax receipt will be emailed to you automatically. You can also print the tax receipt directly from the donation page. Your tax credit will vary depending on your level of donation. To calculate the tax credit visit the Canada Revenue agency website

The donations are subject to an administration fee to Canada Helps of only 1.8%. Like all online transactions, online charitable gift are subject to transaction process fees from the banks and credit card companies; typically between 3% and 4%. As a result, the EKFH will receive approximately 95 cents from every $1 donated.

The money raised by the Friends of the Golden & District Hospital stays in Golden!!

 

When these funds are received, EKFH will allocate the funds directly to the Golden Hospital Fund #2400 and be used to purchase equipment listed below. Funds raised in excess of the target, $36000, will be set aside for future equipment requirements of the Golden Hospital and Durand Manor. The staff at the hospital are already working on a second list.

Department	Item	Cost
Golden – Diabetes wellness	Ambulatory BP Monitor	$3,000
Golden – Health Unit	CADD pump carry bags (2)	$220
Golden -  Community Health	Disposable BP monitor cuffs	$50
Golden – Rehab	Dynatron sound head for ultrasound	$375
Golden – Rehab	Dynatron ultrasound machine	$2,895
Golden – Transport	Ferno Pack Rac – stretcher mount	$4,389
Golden -  OR	Fiberoptic bronchoscope	$2,100
Golden – Durand Manor	Hovermatt	$2,981
Golden – Med/Surgical	IV fluid warmer STAT medical	$2,705
Golden – Med/Surgical	Low profile fall mats	$432
Golden – Rehab	Rehab trainer	$3,000
Golden – Health Unit	Portable SAT monitor (2)	$98
Golden – Med/Surgical	Roho mattress cushion	$700
Golden – Palliative	Slider sheets	$50
Golden – Operating Room	View-a-scope monitor	$2,215
Golden – Durand Manor	Warming cabinet	$4,568
Golden – Community Health	Welch Allyn BP monitor	$2,824
Golden – Med/Surgical	Welch Allyn vital signs monitor	$3,375

Friends of the Golden and District Hospital

Creation of the Friends of the Golden and District Hospital

Submitted by Keith W Hern

When Frances and I returned from our vacation in June we read that the Golden Hospital was fundraising for a Transportation Ventilator and decided that we would like to help. Preliminary discussions with the hospital staff in July indicated that they had applied for a grant to cover the outstanding balance, the result of which would be known by the 3^rd week of August. The grant application was successful and the acquisition of the Transportation Ventilator is now fully funded.

It became apparent during our discussions that the Golden Hospital and Durand Manor had a sizable list of small equipment needs over and above their annual budget for which funding is not easily nor readily found. The list comprises of 18 pieces of equipment, individually each under $5000, totaling $36,000.

Shortly thereafter on September 4^th Frances passed away. In the days following, the family decided it would be a fitting tribute to the memory of Frances to raise funds so that the hospital could acquire this list of equipment.

There are many families in our situation of wanting to thank the hospital staff for one reason or another and that there should be a group formed to provide ongoing help to the hospital in a tangible way. We have been joined in this cause by the Dusevic family, the Oddy family, the Ross family, the Cundliffe/Peacock family and the Lindsay/Matheson family. Each have their own story to tell and reasons for giving thanks to the Golden and District Hospital.

This group, the Friends of the Golden & District Hospital, has now been endorsed by the East Kootenay Foundation for Health and has been given approval to move forward with a crowd-funding project in support of the EKFH through CanadaHelps.org. 

Donna Grainger, Executive Director, EKFH is thrilled. “Your choice of selecting to fundraise for a number of minor equipment items for the Golden& District Hospital and Durand Manor is truly appreciated. These items truly do make a big difference and have a huge impact on the equipment needs of a small rural hospital. The leadership team at the Golden Hospital is ecstatic with your decision”.

We are currently working to set up the crowd funding page on the CanadaHelps.org platform, “Giving Thanks to the Golden & District Hospital” which we anticipate will be open for donations from October 6^th to October 11^th 2015. This will coincide with the Celebration of Life being held for Frances at the Island Restaurant on October 10^th.