When Islanders come together, incredible things happen.
Because of you, the Friends for Life campaign raised an extraordinary $3.45 million to support vital equipment and clinical priorities at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Your generosity is already supporting three critical areas of care Islanders depend on every day:
- Intensive Care: Enhancing rapid diagnostics and life‑saving decision‑making for patients in critical condition.
- Emergency Care: Supporting safer, more efficient treatment when every second counts.
- Mental Health & Addictions: Improving patient monitoring and assessment to ensure responsive, compassionate care.
And that’s only part of the impact. Your support is helping fund essential equipment and clinical priorities across the hospital, ensuring healthcare teams have what they need when it matters most—right here at home.
The need continues:
While this campaign has achieved remarkable success, the demand for new equipment and clinical priorities remains high. This year alone, $8.2 million in needs have been identified at QEH.
Because of you, we are closer than ever.
Want to keep making a difference? Your support helps ensure QEH is always ready for what’s next. Learn more.
“Everything we do in emergency medicine depends on teamwork, and the equipment donors provide is a vital part of that team.”
Dr. Spencer Brown,
QEH Emergency Physician
The QEH needs $8.2 million in medical equipment and critical priorities this year, including:
- Defibrillators
- Ultrasound Machines
- Electrocardiograph
- Mobility & Recover Equipment
- Vital Signs Monitor
- Bladder Scanner
- Procedure Chairs
and more!
A Community Effort Like No Other: Kitchen Party For Care
This year, Islanders also came together in a joyful new way through Kitchen Party for Care. From kitchens and living rooms across PEI, you shared music, dancing, and heart. For every video submitted, Markan Group of Companies donated $100, contributing $10,000 to the campaign.
Take a look at the incredible community spirit you helped create:
Meet Glenda.
This past February, her life changed in an instant. Struck by COVID-19 and pneumonia, she was rushed from Summerside to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and spent six weeks in the Intensive Care Unit, intubated and relying on life-support machines.
Thanks to the dedicated care from QEH staff and the life-saving equipment funded by donors, she did. After six months in hospital, including rehabilitation in Unit 7, she returned home to her loved ones.
Having worked as a nurse for 50 years, Glenda understands what compassionate, skilled care looks like and is deeply grateful for the team that supported her and the donors who funded the equipment that helped save her life. Now a committed monthly donor herself, she encourages others to support the QEH.
The hospital saves lives every day, but having the right tools and resources is essential. Continued generosity ensures that more patients, just like her, can return home to the people they love most.
“The machines that kept me alive weren’t just hospital tools. They were gifts from the community. People like you helped save my life.“
Glenda Schurman, Retired Registered Nurse
QEH Grateful Patient