Contact Shannon at the office for more information on how to be a Hole Sponsor, Prize Sponsor, Enter a team or play individually. We have easy online form registrations available.
office@bthcfoundation.websitepro.hosting or call 204.331-8808 ext.2
Final jackpot amount was $58,380 with winners taking half the other half towards support for BTHC.
We have TWO winners!
The draw was made in the office on Friday, December 31st at 4:00PM. Winning ticket number 0518970, Caitlin Wiebe was drawn. As I was calling Caitlin she knocked on the office door, she learned via our LIVE Instagram that she was the lucky winner. With true integrity, she immediately shared that her and her co-worker Shannon Klassen went in together to purchase tickets. Caitlin and Shannon are ER Nurses here at Boundary Trails Health Centre. Chairperson Ben Friesen and I were honoured to present the ladies with their winnings. CONGRATULATIONS ladies! Wishing you a Happy New Year!
From the bottom of our hearts here at the BTHC Foundation, THANK YOU for participating in our winter 50/50 and making it an exciting and rewarding year end. Happy New Year and blessings to you all in 2022.
Friday November 19: Apple AirPods Pro (value $329) – WINNER: CANDICE LANGLOIS
Friday December 3: Ashley Swivel Chair w/ pillow & blanket (value $900) –WINNER: FRANCES FREUND
Friday December 17: Louisiana LG Black Label Smoker w/ pellets and cover ($1,300) – WINNER: KEVIN GRAHAM
Written by Nicole Klassen/Terry Klippenstein
Larry Reimer, the Spiritual Care Coordinator at Boundary Trails Health Centre
The second annual Donation Conversation in support of the Boundary Trails Health Centre Foundation is into the final few weeks of the campaign.
This year, the Foundation hopes to raise $150,000 towards costs in three areas — specialized equipment, as well as the Palliative and Spiritual Care Programs.
“It’s an amazing resource for us to be able to draw from,” says Larry Reimer, the Spiritual Care Coordinator at Boundary Trails. “It means that there [are] funds available for palliative care, for spiritual care, for many different instruments that are purchased to help this hospital do the job they need to do with patients.”
Having taken on his current role during the pandemic, Reimer says the heavier patient load has proven to be a baptism by fire.
What does a typical day look like for a Spiritual Care Coordinator?
“I get in, I go to all the wards, deliver papers to wards so people have reading material. I pick up all my patient lists, as every day I get a new client list. I take those to my office to fill out my list. I actually spend some time getting centered and praying for those people, going out to the rooms and visiting patients. Right now that’s the bulk of it.”
Regarding the nature of his work, Reimer says every patient has a different need.
“Every patient’s in a different spot. So you have to walk in, I wait at the room before I go in. I stand and I listen a little bit to hear what God may want to say to these people. Sometimes it’s just coming to the room, listening, just being there, being a comforting presence to people. Because I’m not necessarily there to proselytize people. I’m there to bring comfort.”
Reimer served as director of Youth for Christ in Altona for seven years. He completed his spiritual care certification at Catherine Booth College in Winnipeg. He left a local pastorate to take his current post at at Boundary Trails. Reimer believes his role is valuable to the community.
“We have such a really faith based community. There are so many churches in town, it’s important to have kind of a liaison between the pastors and the hospital, especially for that lots of people will come into the hospital. Currently, my patient list is about 25 to 30 people, maybe a bit more that I’m overseeing, that I’m able to connect with churches. If they have congregants that are in the hospital, it’s important for them to know that they’re there. For me, just being a presence there, I bring that spiritual component that’s so vital for so many patients.”
The Foundation is also raising funds through a 50/50 raffle, with a current jackpot of over $34,000. The draw is being made December 31st, 2021.
The Donation Conversation continues with the Boundary Trails Health Centre Foundation. Randy Smart works in an advisory role with the BTHCF and he joined The Eagle Morning Show to talk about the importance of spiritual care at the hospital.
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Dr. Don Klassen
Many generous donations have been put to work in a number of ways by the Boundary Trails Health Centre Foundation.
Each year the foundation purchases items, funds a number of positions, programs and initiatives over and above what the hospital gets in annual funding from Manitoba Health.
“As you can imagine, there are many requests by Boundary Trails and all the other hospitals in the province, Manitoba Health has a budget as well and they are unable to fund everything that is requested,” said BTHC Foundation Medical Representative Dr. Don Klassen. “The foundation tries to be there to try to help pick out those things that would be those additional things that we can do to make for patients in the hospital to make them more comfortable.”https://www.youtube.com/embed/xVJ8gydKvHI?rel=0&fs=1&wmode=transparent
Klassen said sometimes the additional equipment they purchase offers basic care, while other times they may provide a new bed, a new mattress, or a new chair that’s a lot better for specific patients than that standard equipment that’s provided to the hospital.
When people come for dialysis three times a week and need to sit in a chair for up to five hours at a time, they need to have a chair that’s comfortable. He said they perhaps need a bigger screen to watch a show on during those dialysis sessions. “Similarly for the folks in the palliative care…certainly the chemo area is another area of our hospital that people are coming sometimes very difficult diagnosis and difficult treatments, and to make them as comfortable as we can, we kind of take pleasure in doing that.”
