Members of the Barnswallow Quilters Guild were pleased to stop by Boundary Trails Health Centre today with a $2,000 donation for the Obstetrics department at BTHC. The Guild has always donated a share of the proceeds from their annual quilt show to the hospital before the event was suspended due to COVID. Today’s donation is the first in three years and BTHC Foundation Director Shannon Samatte-Folkett and Client Service Manager Lisa Keenan were excited to welcome the ladies and their gift this afternoon. Thank you to the Barnswallow Quilters Guild and to the community at large for supporting the health of women and babies at BTHC!
Left to right, Client Service Manager Lisa Keenan, Barnswallow Quilters Guild members Nan Fieber, Debbie Ritchie, Mary Anne Schmidt, BTHC Foundation Executive Director Shannon Samatte-Folkett
Morden Community Thrift Shop Supports BTHC Foundation Equipment Purchase
The Morden Community Thrift Store put a staggering $219,725 back into Morden and the surrounding community at their recent spring grant celebration. The Boundary Trails Health Centre Foundation was fortunate to recieve a $60,000 grant, to be used towards the purchase of medical equipment at Boundary Trails Health Centre. Foundation Executive Director Shannon Samatte-Folkett received the cheque and the funds will be used to purchase a digital imaging plate to supplement a portable x-ray machine at BTHC. This imaging plate will save precious minutes in the Emergency Department and operating rooms by speeding up the availability of x-rays.
Thank you to the Thrift Store for their continued and generous support of the Foundation and thank you to the community for their support of the Thrift Store. None of this would be possible without your donations!
Photo courtesy of Pembina Valley Online. For more details on the Morden Community Thrift Shop’s spring grant presentation and other organizations that benefitted, click here.
BTHC Foundation Announces Naming of Child and Youth Rehabilitation Centre
The Boundary Trails Health Centre Foundation is excited to announce the naming rights for a key service area in the expanded Boundary Trails Health Centre facility. Access Credit Union has designated $500,000 towards the Child and Youth Rehabilitation Centre. Conveniently located in the new Community Services Building, the new centre will amalgamate treatment services at BTHC so families will no longer have to travel to various locations throughout the community to receive care.
Access Credit Union (ACU) President and CEO Larry Davey, and ACU Board Chair Curt Letkeman, along with Community & Engagement Strategist Keesy Rodewald were at BTHC to present a $500,000 cheque for the Building for the Future Campaign. Davey remarked that “this is a perfect fit with what our membership is seeking on how we support our various communities. Boundary Trails impacts so many of the communities we’re in. We’re just happy to support them in this expansion.”
This gift pushes the Capital Campaign over the $8 million mark. As the campaign closes in on its $10 million goal, BTHC Foundation Board Chair Ben Friesen notes that “the community support for our campaign is still strong,” and the Capital Campaign Committee will be shifting its focus now from the business community to the public at large.
To learn more about the BTHC Expansion and a full list of services that will be available, visit https://bthcexpansion.ca.
Louis Tanguay, BTHC Capital Campaign Committee, Ben Friesen, BTHC Foundation Chair, Larry Davey, Access Credit Union President & CEO, Curt Letkeman, Access Credit Union Board Chair, Shannon Samatte-Folkett, BTHC Foundation Executive Director, Jim Neufeld, BTHC Capital Campaign Committee, Keesy Rodewald, Access Credit Union Community & Engagement Strategist
The Community Services Building – future home of the Child and Youth Rehabilitation Centre
Expansion Campaign Receives Strong Municipal Support
April closed with two pledges to the The Future is Now Capital Campaign from two municipalities that are part of Boundary Trails Health Centre’s core service area. The Municipality of Pembina confirmed a pledge of $267,100 and the Municipality Rhineland confirmed a $200,000 gift. Both municipalities have representation on the BTHC Foundation Board and their expansion campaign commitments “show a willingness to help shape the quality of healthcare in our region,” says Board Chair Ben Friesen. “We are so appreciative of the support shown by our surrounding municipalities and it brings us that much closer to our campaign’s $10 million fundraising goal.”
The Future is Now Capital Campaign has also received support from the Cities of Morden and Winkler and the Rural Municipality of Stanley – which are all represented on the BTHC Foundation Board.
Pictured left to right: BTHC Foundation Fundraising Coordinator Jennifer Ching-Faux, Municipality of Pembina Reeve Glenn Shiskoski and BTHC Foundation Executive Director Shannon Samatte-Folkett
Municipality of Rhineland Council, back row l to r: Hank Froese, Brad Wiebe, Jake Heppner, John Dueck. Front row l to r: Deputy Reeve, Brad Braun, Reeve Don Wiebe, and Archie Heinrichs.
The Boundary Trails Health Centre “The Future is Now” expansion campaign has received tremendous support to date from three municipal governments outside the healthcare facility’s surrounding service region.
In March, both the Town of Carman and RM of Dufferin pledged their support for the campaign. Carman committed has committed $345,654 and the RM of Dufferin has committed $282,273.
In April, the BTHC Foundation Board announced a committment to the campaign from the RM of Montcalm for $80,000.
“We did a lot of research prior to launching this capital campaign and what we found was a startling number of people receiving care at BTHC are coming from outside what we would consider our ‘surrounding area’,” says Foundation Executive Director Shannon Samatte-Folkett. She adds, “that’s what makes these contributions so exciting. These Councils, they understand we are building a truly regional healthcare facility. Their support gives our campaign a tremendous boost, not just financially but in spirit as well.”
For more information on what services will be available and what the newly expanded Boundary Trails Health Centre will look like, visit bthcexpansion.ca.
If you’d like to support the Capital Campaign, click here for more information.
Mayor Brent Owen, Town of Carman (left) and
Reeve Cor Lodder, RM of Dufferin (right).
The RM of Montcalm Council
Back row, L to R: Councillor Paul Sabourin, Councillor Emile Remillard, Councillor Louis Duval, Councillor Jean Barnabe
Front row, L to R: Councillor Harold Janzen, Reeve Paul Gilmore, Chief Administrative Officer Jolene Bird
