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 Annual grants made by SickKids
Foundation to The Hospital for
Sick Children are the largest
investments in paediatric health
care in Canada and the largest
annual contributions to a hospital
in this country.
SickKids Foundation made an
investment of $64.4 million in
children’s health care through
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 How your dollars help
Over the past five years, SickKids Foundation has helped purchase clinical and research
equipment from incubators to PET Machine for detecting cancer to rocking chairs,
all thanks to the generous and constant support of our believers and donors alike.
Here a just a few purchases made with funds: |
- Berlin Heart System
- Anesthesia equipment and simulator
- $900,000 towards a PET machine
- Echocardiograms
- Ophthalmology research equipment
- Pain pumps for Haematology/oncology
- Neurosurgery microsurgical instruments
- Cardiac ECMO Perfusion
- Over-bed warmers
- Incubators
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- Endoscope for assessment
of cleft patients
- Parent sleep chair for use in an
in-patient room with no parent bed
- Optical forceps
- Cardiac defibrillators
- Rocking chair for the burns unit
- Research equipment necessary
to study Stem Cell colla
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| Where the money went in 2008-2009 |
- $34.6 million to the SickKids Research Institute
- $8.6 million for capital equipment and projects at the hospital
- $2.1 million to clinical and research equipment
- $3.9 million to training and education for SickKids fellows, professorships,
students, bursaries, conference attendance, lectureships, staff recognition,
and awards
- $1.9 million to Safe Kids Canada, the national injury prevention program
for SickKids; About Kids Health, a family resource centre; and other health
promotion initiatives
- $434,351 to patient amenities in order to help SickKids
patients and their families with expenses not covered by insurance,
including parking, an overnight stay, or essential drugs
- $1.6 million to special programs throughout the hospital
including: art therapy, adolescent medicine, bereavement,
sending patients to cardiac camp, the eating disorders
program, the international patient program, the
Reading Room, SCAN, seizure dog response
program, Starlight Room, substance abuse,
chaplaincy, and Beanstalk program
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| Net proceeds of the lottery are used to further the mission of the
SickKids Foundation and help support The Hospital for Sick Children. |
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| The Hospital for
Sick Children, by the numbers |
- SickKids has more than 5,200 health-care staff and 630 physicians.
- SickKids sees more than 300,000 patient visits a year.
- About 13,000 children are admitted for a period of time
or come for day surgery; 55,000 are seen in the Emergency Department,
and almost 324,000 go to clinics, medical day care, or diagnostic visits.
- More than 500 international patients from 48 different countries received treatment in 2008.
- More than 11,000 cases come through the operating rooms
each year at SickKids – that translates to more than
24,000 surgical hours.
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