NHS Foundation
Niagara Health System Foundation
155 Ontario Street, First Floor
St. Catharines, ON L2R 5K3
Tel: 905.378.4647, Ext. 32246
Fax: 905.682.1472
nhsfoundation@niagarahealth.on.ca
The creation of the Niagara Health System Foundation (NHS Foundation) brings another strong and caring community volunteer group to our dynamic health-care team focused on meeting the health needs of the people of our region.
The mandate of the NHS Foundation is to oversee fundraising for capital development, medical equipment and technology to support system-wide regional services. This Foundation works collaboratively with our individual local site foundations and auxiliaries, which continue to fulfill their mandates to fundraise for their respective community site needs.
It's Our Time Campaign
The NHS Foundation, working in partnership with each of the local site foundations, is managing the Niagara-wide It's Our Time Campaign to raise $40-million to help fund new facilities and equipment, and renovations to existing facilities. Funds raised will support:
- the new Niagara Regional Walker Family Cancer Centre
- the new Niagara Regional Cardiac Catheterization Unit
- the Niagara Regional Mental Health Centre,
- new Regional Dialysis Centres to be located at the Greater Niagara General, Welland and St. Catharines Sites
- the new St. Catharines Community acute-care site
- upgraded operating rooms and diagnostic equipment at the Greater Niagara General Site
- equipment to support the Urgent Care Centre, renovations to facilitate development of the Complex Continuing Care Centre, and new electric beds at the Douglas Memorial Site
- renovations and equipment to create an Urgent Care Centre and upgrades and new diagnostic imaging equipment to support the Complex Continuing Care Centre at the Port Colborne Site
- improvements to the Welland Site, including the new 12,500 sq. ft. 24-station Welland Hospital Auxiliary Dialysis Centre, and a new 128-slice CT Scanner.
Foundation President and CEO, Bill Hallett, PhD, ACFRE, has over 30 years experience in the not-for-profit sector. He has worked to develop philanthropic and fundraising programs in a number of institutions and charities such as the YMCA, Hospital for Sick Children Foundation and Ryerson University.
Wendy Dueck, the Foundation's Development Liaison Officer & Director, Campaign Communications, holds an Honours BA in Communications from Brock University and is working towards her MA in Community Studies. Amanda Hamilton, with over 15 years experience in executive administrative roles, serves as Office Administrator. Suzanne Foy rounds out the team as the Foundation's Communications Assistant.
Together, they support a group of fourteen community leaders who have stepped forward to serve as members of the NHS Foundation Board of Directors.