Our Story

The Campbell River Hospital Foundation was established in 1989 as the fund raising and community liaison arm of the Campbell River Hospital. In 1999, the foundation expanded its mandate to include the Yucalta Lodge multilevel care facility.

Our Hospital is one that offers tremendous personal care that is delivered by devoted and compassionate Doctors and staff. To date, more than $4.5 million worth of equipment has been purchased that has enhanced both patient and resident care and has contributed to staff education.

Each year, more than 2000 individuals, businesses and community organizations make contributions and in doing so leave a legacy of health care excellence for future generations. Your support enables us to help our facilities to treat patients faster and more effectively.
These facilities serve over 54,000 residents in Campbell River and the North Island. Funding priorities are determined in partnership with the Vancouver Island Health Authority who manages the hospitals. Each year, the Campbell River Hospital Foundation raises over $400,000 to support the hospitals' most critical equipment needs.

Registered Charity

The Foundation is a registered charity and governed by a volunteer Board of Directors that is made up of community leaders who have a passion and a commitment to supporting access to quality health care in our community.

We believe that supporting quality health care comes in many forms.

And that is why donors to the Foundation and the Campbell River Shrine Club helped support families at the Family Camp for kids with Diabetes at Camp Homewood on Quadra Island.

Below is an excerpt of a letter that symbolizes the impact of Family Camp.

"We thought camp was amazing.  Living where we do, Parker had never met another child with diabetes.  For over a year he has been all alone in his little battle.  He is proud of his pump, but again, he is the only kid he knows that has a tube attached to his bum or belly...

....The look on his face, when after being at camp for 10 minutes, he saw another kid poke his finger and draw blood, was astounding.  He fit in.  For that minute, he was just like someone else.  He liked that other kids had lows, and that other kids had to count their carbs, and that other kids had site changes too.....

We can't wait to come back next year."

Sincerely,  

The Cesaretti Family