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24H Blue MTN is welcoming teams of up to 12 skiers or snowboarders to Ontario’s premier ski resort for a relay-style fundraiser. Participants will look forward to an action-packed event filled with exhilarating outdoor thrills, warm music, great food, good spirits, plus participant perks and prizes. “We are so excited for our team to be…
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Collingwood Hospital Foundation has launched their annual Tree of Life with a fresh new campaign to raise funds for a new CT scanner for the Collingwood G&M Hospital. With new branding and powerful imagery with CGMH frontline staff, the Foundation hopes to inspire the community to support the campaign in raising $1million. Every year, the…
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The CGMHF Wellness Innovation fund has $10K available to fund innovative projects that focus on health and wellness in South Georgian Bay. The Wellness Innovation Fund has been established to provide seed monies, on an annual basis, to initiate or support projects and/or programs that will significantly contribute to enhancing the wellness of Collingwood General…
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Ski Movie Night returns for the 10th annual fundraiser in support of the Collingwood G&M Hospital Foundation with the goal of raising $15k, which would bring the accumulated funds raised to $100k. Held at the Historic Gayety Theatre, Ski Movie Night is bringing the Warren Miller film “Daymaker” to downtown Collingwood. The 8pm gala showing…
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When a skiing accident landed Art Church in the CGMH Emergency Department last February, he was glad that he could be referred to Orthopaedic Services where expert surgeon, Dr. Henry Koo took over his care. To show his appreciation to Dr. Koo and the entire surgical team, Art decided to make a gift of $1…
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“You can’t know Narda and Not love her” – like much of the community, our team at the Foundation was captivated by Narda Hunt and her fight with cancer. Married to a professional filmmaker, Narda’s vibrant life was shared with the world, highlighting her love of South Georgian Bay and her way of finding extraordinary…
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Three-year old Jax Davenport has been rushed to the emergency department over 115 times. Born with a heart condition called Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT), Jax has an irregularly fast/erratic heartbeat (arrhythmia) that affects the heart’s upper chambers. When Jax starts to feel unwell, her parents have to rush her to the Emergency Department so that they…
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SGBCHC healthcare providers to prescribe ‘time in nature’ to support good health and wellbeing The South Georgian Bay Community Health Centre (SGBCHC) is pleased to announce that it has partnered with community organizations to launch the Green Prescription pilot project. Funded by the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital Foundation’s Wellness Innovation Fund, and spearheaded by…
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Collingwood Hospital Foundation President and CEO Jory Pritchard-Kerr has been chosen as the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Harold J. (Si) Seymour Award, the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy’s highest honour to development professionals whose careers reflect excellence and outstanding leadership in healthcare philanthropy. “This is an amazing honour which I am humbled to have received,”…
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Paul & Karen Jackson were born and raised in Collingwood. In the 1970s they moved to Toronto so Karen could attend nursing school and moved back to town in 1981, when Karen was offered a job as a nurse on the Surgical Floor at the Collingwood G&M Hospital (CGMH). As proud parents of 3 daughters…