And so, when BC Children’s Hospital Foundation offered me the privilege of chairing its Campaign for BC Children, I gladly accepted. Our lofty mission was to engage the community to support the planning, design and construction of a new, state-of-the-art Children’s Hospital. As well, we raised funds to support a brand new initiative called Child Health BC, with the goal of ensuring excellent and consistent health care for children, wherever they live in the province. Our campaign for $200 million, considered ambitious at the time, was the largest hospital capital campaign ever under- taken in BC – and one of only a few ever undertaken in the country.

We formally launched our campaign in April of 2008. Today, I am delighted to tell you that, together, we’ve reached our goal! More than 80,000 people, from every corner of the province, shared our vision of a healthier future for our children and donated to the campaign. Thank you!

Communicating with the province was made easy with the help of our amazing campaign media partners, Global BC, the Pattison Broadcast Group and The Vancouver Sun. Management and staff demonstrated their deep, personal commitment and through all of the years, their steadfast support never wavered. Thank you!

Of course, none of this would be possible without the support and leadership of the Government of British Columbia. This project, which will profoundly affect tens of thousands of young lives over many decades to come, demonstrates the good that comes when community and government work together. Thank you!

Finally, major kudos to the volunteers and staff who worked so hard to make this campaign a success. My colleagues on the Campaign Leadership Cabinet spent countless hours sharing our vision and urging people to participate. Thank you!

The new Children’s Hospital will open its doors in early 2018. I hope my children will never require its services. But, for all of our children, I am grateful that it will be there. Substantially bigger. Remarkably better.

On behalf of all of BC’s children and their families, for generations to come, thank you!

Don LindsayChair, The Campaign for BC Children

There is a saying, “making the decision to have a child is to decide forever to walk around with your heart outside yourself.” As the father of three beautiful girls, I can say that truer words were never spoken. I am also confident that all of the parents and grandparents reading this feel exactly the same way.

With your support, we’ve successfully completed the Campaign for BC Children!

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$150millionfor a new BC Children’s Hospital

$50millionfor Child Health BC

Over 80,000 people and organizations from BC and the Yukon made gifts of all sizes to the Campaign for BC Children. Among those were donors who contributed $1 million or more – our Leadership Donors. Together these donors are helping to bring about a transformation in the delivery of care to children.

spring 2014DesignofthenewBCChildren’sHospital.GrandopeningoftheDjavadMowafaghian ChildCareCentre.

fall 2014ConstructionstartsontheTeckAcuteCareCentre–theheartofthenewBCChildren’sHospital.

2018GrandopeningofthenewBCChildren’sHospital.

BC Children’s Hospital Foundation is proud to honour Teck and its employees for helping children and families across British Columbia. As a leader in the mining industry and lead donor to the Campaign for BC Children, Teck’s historic $25-million gift to support the new BC Children’s Hospital – and name the Teck Acute Care Centre – will help transform the environment in which children in the province receive care.

Teck is committed to building healthy, vibrant communities where its employees live and work. Teck’s leadership will ensure that the new hospital will give children today, and future generations, the healthiest future possible.

The Teck Acute Care Centre — the heart of the new BC Children’s Hospital. Inside the Teck Acute Care Centre, patient rooms will be comfortable, provide family space and offer life-saving features. Staff spaces will be built to let caregivers do their best work, with the tools and technology they need. And, whenever possible, staff will deliver care at the patient’s bedside, rather than moving the child from location to location. These advances, and many more, will transform the delivery of care to children.

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It will be twice the size of the existing hospital.

An entire floor will be devoted to our world-renowned Cancer Centre.

Care will be enhanced and recovery times accelerated thanks to a child- and family- friendly healing environment and extensive use of technology.

Parents will have the space and services they need to stay comfortably with their kids - and a private bathroom in every patient room!

Children recovering from heart surgery will have their own

special Intensive Care Unit.

Large surgical teams required for complex operations will work in spacious new ORs; the smallest will be bigger than our largest OR today.

The Intensive Care Unit will be designed to combat the threat of infectious diseases while providing patients and their families with greater privacy in times of crisis.

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on the bc children’s hospital site!COMING SOONConceptual rendering. Subject to change.

Overwaitea Food Group’s generous pledge of $20 million in support of Child Health BC will ensure that children and families throughout the province have access to specialized care closer to home.

For over 25 years, Overwaitea Food Group team members, supplier partners and customers have supported BC Children’s Hospital’s most urgent needs. Many Overwaitea Food Group families have relied on the services of BC Children’s Hospital and an even greater number of their customers have found the care they need within the walls of the hospital.

Through Child Health BC, Overwaitea Food Group has found a way to give BC’s children something they all deserve – the gift of good health.

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BC Children’s Hospital Foundation is proud to recognize Overwaitea Food Group for its support as a lead donor to the Campaign for BC Children and lead benefactor to Child Health BC.

Graeme Currie

David Podmore

Don Lindsay, chair

Graham MacLachlanLisa Hudson

Douglas Gordon

Debora Sweeney, campaign director

Kevin Bent

Teri Nicholas, ceo

Campaign Leadership Cabinet

The Pediatric Emergency Department at Surrey Memorial Hospital.

The Pediatric Ambulatory Care Clinic at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.

Pediatric Ambulatory Specialty Program in University Hospital of Northern British Columbia in Prince George.

Audiology clinic at Prince Rupert Regional Hospital.

The Child Health Centre at Richmond Hospital.

Telehealth centres in Cranbrook and Vernon.

Implementing provincial standards of care for conditions such as diabetes, cerebral palsy and other conditions.

Concussion awareness training toolkit to help caregivers recognize, diagnose and treat children with concussions.

Child Health BC, an initiative of BC Children’s Hospital, is improving access to care for children across the province, closer to home. Child Health BC has supported the establishment of facilities and programs around the province:

Michael Bublécampaign ambassador

Child Health BC

thank you to our media partners