Mother’s Day Appeal
Dear Friend,
Imagine yourself in a hospital bed - groggy, uncomfortable and sore. It’s been a week since your heart surgery...
As you are helped into the car to go home, your mind reels with the sudden, traumatic events that led to your hospitalization. And now you wonder...
“How did it come to this?” you ask yourself, “Was there something I could have done differently? Were changes needed in my life? What should I have known?”
Thanks to our new Heart Program for Women, heart disease and all the suffering and fear it brings can be avoided. Now you can tap into a wide array of resources and services. Now you can hope for a healthy future. Life-impacting programming like this is what your support helps us provide.
The Heart Program for Women at BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre is the first of its kind in Western Canada. Women can get comprehensive risk assessments, and lifestyle management coaching. Now women with heart disease or at risk of heart disease can find the help they need before it’s too late.
As a BC Women’s donor, you support programs like our Heart Program for Women which actually helps women prevent heart disease, the biggest killer of women in Canada. Bigger than breast, lung and uterine cancer combined!
And yet, 80 percent of heart disease can be prevented with lifestyle changes. Your diet, exercise, stress levels and even depression all play a critical role. By focusing on prevention, our new Heart Program brings cutting-edge healthcare to women in need.
Since we opened it in January, we’ve been inundated with women seeking help.
With Mother’s Day fast-approaching, our hearts go out to the moms in our lives. That’s why our new Heart Program for Women is on my mind as I write to you today.
But the clinic is just one of many groundbreaking programs offered at BC Women’s that you support with your donation. There’s our premiere centre for high-risk maternity care, counted upon by thousands of moms and families across the province. Your support also helps women in our breast health, osteoporosis, and menopause programs, and more...
BC Women’s is not only a world leader in maternity care, but also in our women’s health research. Without you, it wouldn’t be the same, perhaps not even possible...
This year, we need to raise over $1 million to fund vital, life-saving equipment and life-changing programs. We want to help all women in this province put their health first.
Help us provide research and services that save lives and improve the well-being of women everywhere. Together I know we can make a difference.
That’s why I am asking you to make a special donation for Mother’s Day this year. Please consider dedicating your special Mother’s Day gift to your mom, or any mom you know who is dear to your heart.
Make your donation in her name and show her how much you care. At the same time you’ll be helping to make programs like the new Heart Program for Women clinic possible.
Your gift today will go beyond supporting our innovative programs. It will also ensure that all mothers and babies at BC Women’s have access to the very best technology.
You’ll be helping to ensure that when they arrive at the hospital, they find a world-class facility surrounded by a specialized and highly-skilled team of healthcare professionals.
On behalf of the thousands of women, babies and families who come for our help each and every year, I thank you for your generosity.
Sincerely,
Dr. Jan Christilaw
President, BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre
