The 2020 Patient Comfort & Kindness Grant Recipients, and a special gift from the Ever Hopeful Fund
Every summer, we invite our Hospital staff – on behalf of the patients they serve in their department or unit – to submit applications for a grant of up to $5,000 from St. Joseph’s Healthcare Foundation’s Patient Comfort & Kindness Fund. This fund is dedicated to helping departments to cover the costs of the “little things” that may not be eligible for funding from the province but are a critical tool in helping improve our patient’s hospital experience and supporting the healing process.
This year, we received a record number of applications requesting more than $130,000 in funding. The Patient Comfort and Kindness Fund is made possible through generous donations made by our community of supporters, and while typically we’re able to grant between $25,000 and $30,000 each year, this year we’re pleased to announce that we had some extra help! Thanks to a generous $100,000 gift from an anonymous donor known as the Ever Hopeful Fund, our Foundation had sufficient funding to help make nearly all of the requests we received possible for the patients we serve.