Place Alexis Nihon
Photo, from left to right: Mr. Guy Charron, Mme Julie Champagne, both of Homburg, with Louise Dery-Goldberg, Valerie Frost, and Danielle Gabrielle Roy, of the Foundation. |
Place Alexis Nihon’s innovative “Say Cheese for The Children’s” captured the smiles and imaginations of many and raised more than $30,000 for our young patients. We thank our friends at Homburg for this wonderful holiday initiative. The event will be held again in December 2010, this time with the goal of raising $50,000 for our young patients. We can't wait! |
Pharmaprix Alexis Nihon
Photo: Pharmacist Dominquez Voyer (second from right) and her staff, with Michael Pecho of the Foundation (centre). |
For the last three years, Dominique Voyer, Pharmacist-owner of Pharmaprix Place Alexis Nihon, has generously designated her pharmacy’s Tree of Life campaign to The Children’s, raising over $45,000 for the Hospital. This year’s funds were designated specifically towards the Eating Disorder Clinic of The Children’s Adolescent Medicine department. |
Giant Tiger
Photo: Michael Pecho, the Foundation; Denis Landreville, Giant Tiger; Dr. Robert T. Brouillette, Director Pediatric Sleep Laboratory; Christine McGregor, Supervisor Jeremy Rill Sleep Laboratory. |
A $10,000 donation from Giant Tiger was used to purchase a Respiratory Inductive Plethysmography for The Children's Sleep Lab, which sees over 750 young patients per year. This specialized piece of equipment monitors breathing and measures key indicators in assessing whether children suffer from sleeping disorders such as sleep apnea. |
EA Mobile
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The employees of EA Mobile donated more than 100 EA games, which promise to provide The Children's young patients with hours of fun playing on both Nintendo DS and PlayStation consoles. A huge thank-you to the employees of EA Mobile for their generosity! |
Duracell
Photo: Marie-Josée Gariépy of the Foundation, and Marie-France Haineault of Child Life Services at The Children's. |
On November 16, Duracell donated 4,101 batteries valued at $6,035, which will power the toys and games in the Hospital’s toy rooms throughout 2010. This happy initiative from Duracell, which donates batteries to toy rooms in hospitals across North America through the Power a Smile campaign, grew in scope this year to include 13 Canadian hospitals, including The Children’s. |
TELUS
Photo: Anne-Marie Laberge, TELUS; Dr. Lucie Lessard, The Children’s; Michael Pecho, The Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation. |
The generous employees of TELUS showed their renewed support of The Children’s by making a gift of $33,771, designated to the Hospital's craniomaxillofacial team (comprised of plastic surgeons, orthodontists, dentists, imaging specialists, otolaryngologists, otologists and pediatricians). The services provided by this team include corrective surgeries to children with congenital malformations, such as cleft lip and palate. |
Vortex
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Vortex and their many clients and friends combined recreation with the spirit of generosity on August 22 for their annual golf tournamant, which raised a record $10,000 for the Angela's Big Heart for Little Kids Fund. |
Scotiabank
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Following the Banque Scotia 21k de Montreal last April 19, Scotiabank contributed more than $62,000 to The Montreal Children's Hospital Foundation. Pictured here, Marie-Josée Gariépy, Director of Planned Giving at the Foundation, receives the cheque from Diane Giard, Senior Vice-President of Scotiabank for Quebec and Eastern Ontario. |
National Bank Financial Group
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The Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation and National Bank Financial Group recently announced the establishment of a research unit to investigate the causes of birth defects in children. This unit, made possible thanks to a donation of $1.5 million from National Bank Financial Group, will study the role of genetics in causing congenital defects and how the environment and genes can interact to alter normal embryonic development. |
Pharmascience
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It was with great enthusiasm that Pharmascience made a recent gift of $25,000 to The Best Care for Children Campaign. This gift has been allocated to the purchase of an Intra-Operative MRI, a first in a children’s hospital in Canada.
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Shire BioChem Inc.
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Thanks to a generous $2,500,000 gift from Shire BioChem Inc., The Children's will contribute greatly to improving the diagnosis and treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD is one of the most common childhood disorders, affecting approximately six percent of Quebec children. |