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Builds Lasting Community Impact
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St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation believes in the power of generosity to save and change lives. It’s this belief that leads the SPH Foundation to continue to raise, manage and allocate funds in keeping with donors’ wishes to the benefit of St. Paul’s Hospital and the Hospice at Glengarda, and it contributed to its recognition as the 2022 SABEX Community Impact Award recipient.
Since 1982, SPH Foundation has been supporting the priority needs of the acute care teaching facility that is St. Paul’s Hospital. In January of 2020, St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation launched its $20 million Close to Home Campaign for Hospice and End-of-Life Care, and just one year later, in January of 2021, allowed the Hospice at Glengarda to open its doors to offer accessible, compassionate and holistic end-of-life care in a beautiful 15-bed sanctuary located in a quiet residential neighbourhood.
SPH Foundation recognizes that enhancing care in our community requires the work of many. It’s one of the reasons the Foundation allocated funds raised during the Close to Home Campaign to create a Palliative Care Education Fund and Committee. With members from across the province, the committee includes representatives from the Saskatchewan Health Authority, Prairie Hospice Society, Saskatchewan Hospice Palliative Care Association, St. Paul’s Hospital and its Foundation, as well as patient and family advocates. The committee is investing in the delivery of Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative (LEAP) Care courses province-wide, and sponsoring the Saskatchewan Hospice Palliative Care Conference, which welcomed over 250 participants and speakers from around the world this year. Further, the Committee is supporting the development of a webinar to answer commonly asked questions and address challenges patients and families facing a palliative diagnosis may have. It's these types of initiatives in addition to its fundraising activities and strategic funds allocations that SPH Foundation builds a lasting community impact.
With 13 staff members lead by CEO, Lecina Hicke, and a 12-member volunteer Board of Directors, over the years the Foundation has raised over 80 million dollars. Their efforts support the ongoing needs and programs unique to St. Paul’s Hospital and the Hospice at Glengarda. The support of the Foundation also helps to realize the implementation of sophisticated new technologies, enhancement of patient comfort and advancement of education and training opportunities for health care professionals.
Recently, with generous community support, SPH Foundation partnered with the Ministry of Health to purchase the Da Vinci Surgical Robot, Saskatchewan’s first. The surgical community has embraced robot-assisted surgery as a gold standard of care. With this innovative technology, they can offer patients safer and more precise surgeries with less pain, fewer complications and faster recoveries. Having this technology also advances efforts to recruit top medical talent to Saskatoon, and will play a key part in reducing the overall wait times for surgeries. This is community impact of which we can all be proud.
Cameco presents the Community Impact Award to St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation
Displays New Business Venture Trophy
To receive the new business venture trophy, one must have demonstrated steady growth, profitability and successfully positioned itself as an emerging industry leader and contributor to saskatoon’s economic development within one to three years. This is exactly what Juniper & Oak Consignment has done since opening its doors in the summer of 2020. Yes, you read this right! Part owner and operator, Diana Pereira and her three daughters launched their business in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. And as fate would have it, that would not be the only wrench thrown in their business plan. Earlier this year, Diana was diagnosed with MS, which left her incapacitated for months, but fortunately her daughters have been able to continue to run and grow the business to achieve its current success and win the SABEX New Business Venture Award.
Located in and partially owned by Handy Special Evens, Juniper & Oak Consignments offers unique décor, furniture and women fashion beautifully curated to destigmatize the second-hand shopping experience. They can attribute their new business achievements to their attention to offering friendly and knowledgeable customer service. And of course, their focus on creating a welcoming, spacious, beautifully displayed and well-appointed environment to shop in person or online – they were the first consignment shop in Saskatoon to offer an e-commerce platform – allows consignors to find a second home for their unwanted items, and eco-conscious customers to source one-of-a-kind hidden gems at discounted prices. In its first two years, Juniper & Oak has already helped over 1,000 local people and kept nearly 20,000 items out of the landfill. Their success is also illustrated by their ability to not only reach their annual sales goal but to more than double it in one year. In year two they build on year one’s sales by over 235% and they are now targeting a 160% increase in year three over year two. That’s something to celebrate for a business that initially thought that their market was mostly in Saskatoon and now ships second-hand items across North America!
FCC presents the New Business Venture Award to Juniper & Oak Consignment
