Every year, our annual Friends for Life Campaign focuses on raising funds to fund medical equipment and clinical priorities to assist our healthcare teams in providing the best care possible. Support from the community enables us to purchase life-saving, up-to-date medical equipment and technology to care for all Islanders in times of need. Essentially, the majority of the hospital’s medical equipment needs are funded by donations. Gifts of all sizes make a huge impact on patients of the QEH, their families, friends and communities. We hope you can join us in supporting this year’s campaign and contributing to the future of healthcare in PEI.
This year, the QEH is facing it’s greatest year of need to date at $8.2 million. Your gift will help fund urgent needs in critical areas such as Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, and Mental Health & Addictions Care. These are the services Islanders rely on during their most urgent and vulnerable moments when access to life-saving can make all the difference.
“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!
Party for a Purpose: Kitchen Party For Care
As part of our annual Friends for Life Campaign, we’re thrilled to launch a fun new initiative: #KitchenPartyForCare, and we’d love your help getting it off the ground. This virtual celebration is just one of many ways we’re working toward our $8.2 million fundraising goal to support urgently needed medical equipment and clinical priorities at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
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