Your Impact & About the Foundation
The Lake of the Woods District Hospital Foundation raises money in partnership with the community for one purpose: new capital medical equipment and technology for Lake of the Woods District Hospital in Kenora.
The Foundation
The Foundation was established in 1992 and is a registered Canadian charity. It is governed by a volunteer board of 11 directors and run day to day by 3 staff, supported by more than 2,500+ volunteer hours every year.
Since it began, the Foundation has contributed more than $18 million to the hospital. That money does not pay for operating costs: it buys equipment and technology that the hospital would otherwise wait years for, or go without.
The 50/50 raffle is the Foundation’s largest single fundraiser. Half of ticket sales goes to the Grand Prize winner; every dollar of the Foundation’s share goes into capital equipment.
The hospital
Lake of the Woods District Hospital is an 81-bed acute care hospital in Kenora, Ontario. It is the referral hospital for a large district, including remote communities that reach it by road, water or air.
Emergency care
The district’s emergency department, open around the clock.
Ambulatory care
Day procedures and clinics that avoid an overnight stay or a journey out of the region.
Chronic care
Longer-term inpatient care for people with continuing needs.
Diagnostic imaging
X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI — much of it funded by the Foundation.
Surgery
Operating rooms equipped with instruments bought through community fundraising.
Acute care
Inpatient beds for people who need hospital care now.
What the money has bought
Every item below was paid for by the Foundation and handed to the hospital. Nothing here covers operating costs — this is capital equipment, the kind the hospital would otherwise wait years for.
MRI
Advanced imaging, close to home.
CT and diagnostic imaging
A software upgrade that improved images from equipment already in service.
Imaging suite
Positioning equipment and patient supports bought with the scanner.
Diagnostic imaging department
Equipment is only half of it: it is used by staff working in the district every day.
Vital signs monitors
Continuous monitoring on the wards and in ambulatory care.
Patient monitoring
Heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and oxygen saturation, second by second.
Video endoscope
Diagnostic procedures done in Kenora instead of out of district.
Laparoscopic telescopes
Keyhole surgery with smaller incisions and a shorter recovery.
Bookwalter Retractor Set
Holds exposure steady during abdominal surgery.
Operating room equipment
Instruments and monitoring bought through community fundraising.
Fluoroscopy Suite
Real-time imaging that guides a procedure while it happens.
Beds and mattresses
Comfort and pressure care for inpatients.
The photographs on this page illustrate equipment of the kind the Foundation funds. They are stock photographs, not pictures of Lake of the Woods District Hospital.
How we report
The Foundation is a registered Canadian charity, Charitable Registration (BN) 13710 5243 RR0001. It files an annual return with the Canada Revenue Agency, and the raffle is conducted under a licence issued by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, licence # RAF1552544, with the reporting that the licence requires.
To ask about a specific purchase, a financial statement or how a particular campaign was spent, write to lwdhf@lwdh.on.ca.
Where to find us
21 Sylvan Street West, Kenora, ON P9N 3W7. Ground floor of St. Joseph’s Health Centre, across from the LWDH staff parking lot. Open Monday to Friday, 9:00–16:30.
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