BTHC Foundation Announces Naming of Child and Youth Rehabilitation Centre
The Boundary Trails Health Centre Foundation is excited to announce the naming rights for a key service area in the expanded Boundary Trails Health Centre facility. Access Credit Union has designated $500,000 towards the Child and Youth Rehabilitation Centre. Conveniently located in the new Community Services Building, the new centre will amalgamate treatment services at BTHC so families will no longer have to travel to various locations throughout the community to receive care.
Access Credit Union (ACU) President and CEO Larry Davey, and ACU Board Chair Curt Letkeman, along with Community & Engagement Strategist Keesy Rodewald were at BTHC to present a $500,000 cheque for the Building for the Future Campaign. Davey remarked that “this is a perfect fit with what our membership is seeking on how we support our various communities. Boundary Trails impacts so many of the communities we’re in. We’re just happy to support them in this expansion.”
This gift pushes the Capital Campaign over the $8 million mark. As the campaign closes in on its $10 million goal, BTHC Foundation Board Chair Ben Friesen notes that “the community support for our campaign is still strong,” and the Capital Campaign Committee will be shifting its focus now from the business community to the public at large.
To learn more about the BTHC Expansion and a full list of services that will be available, visit https://bthcexpansion.ca.
Louis Tanguay, BTHC Capital Campaign Committee, Ben Friesen, BTHC Foundation Chair, Larry Davey, Access Credit Union President & CEO, Curt Letkeman, Access Credit Union Board Chair, Shannon Samatte-Folkett, BTHC Foundation Executive Director, Jim Neufeld, BTHC Capital Campaign Committee, Keesy Rodewald, Access Credit Union Community & Engagement Strategist
The Community Services Building – future home of the Child and Youth Rehabilitation Centre
Expansion Campaign Receives Strong Municipal Support
April closed with two pledges to the The Future is Now Capital Campaign from two municipalities that are part of Boundary Trails Health Centre’s core service area. The Municipality of Pembina confirmed a pledge of $267,100 and the Municipality Rhineland confirmed a $200,000 gift. Both municipalities have representation on the BTHC Foundation Board and their expansion campaign commitments “show a willingness to help shape the quality of healthcare in our region,” says Board Chair Ben Friesen. “We are so appreciative of the support shown by our surrounding municipalities and it brings us that much closer to our campaign’s $10 million fundraising goal.”
The Future is Now Capital Campaign has also received support from the Cities of Morden and Winkler and the Rural Municipality of Stanley – which are all represented on the BTHC Foundation Board.
Pictured left to right: BTHC Foundation Fundraising Coordinator Jennifer Ching-Faux, Municipality of Pembina Reeve Glenn Shiskoski and BTHC Foundation Executive Director Shannon Samatte-Folkett
Municipality of Rhineland Council, back row l to r: Hank Froese, Brad Wiebe, Jake Heppner, John Dueck. Front row l to r: Deputy Reeve, Brad Braun, Reeve Don Wiebe, and Archie Heinrichs.
The Boundary Trails Health Centre “The Future is Now” expansion campaign has received tremendous support to date from three municipal governments outside the healthcare facility’s surrounding service region.
In March, both the Town of Carman and RM of Dufferin pledged their support for the campaign. Carman committed has committed $345,654 and the RM of Dufferin has committed $282,273.
In April, the BTHC Foundation Board announced a committment to the campaign from the RM of Montcalm for $80,000.
“We did a lot of research prior to launching this capital campaign and what we found was a startling number of people receiving care at BTHC are coming from outside what we would consider our ‘surrounding area’,” says Foundation Executive Director Shannon Samatte-Folkett. She adds, “that’s what makes these contributions so exciting. These Councils, they understand we are building a truly regional healthcare facility. Their support gives our campaign a tremendous boost, not just financially but in spirit as well.”
For more information on what services will be available and what the newly expanded Boundary Trails Health Centre will look like, visit bthcexpansion.ca.
If you’d like to support the Capital Campaign, click here for more information.
Mayor Brent Owen, Town of Carman (left) and
Reeve Cor Lodder, RM of Dufferin (right).
The RM of Montcalm Council
Back row, L to R: Councillor Paul Sabourin, Councillor Emile Remillard, Councillor Louis Duval, Councillor Jean Barnabe
Front row, L to R: Councillor Harold Janzen, Reeve Paul Gilmore, Chief Administrative Officer Jolene Bird
While spring may not have arrived yet, our Spring Newsletter has! Click for an online version or contact the office for a print copy. Find out what’s happening at the Foundation office, get the latest information on our Capital Campaign and read about our achievements in 2022.
Written by Robyn Wiebe Friday, Feb 10 2023, 5:53 AM
A regional coming together to support the Boundary Trails Health Centre (BTHC) expansion project took place Thursday afternoon. RM of Stanley Reeve Ike Friesen, Morden Mayor Brandon Burley, and Winkler Mayor Henry Siemens gathered to announce their community commitments to the BTHC Foundation portion of the $100- million expansion project. The BTHC Foundation has committed to raising $10 million for the project after the Provincial Government committed to funding $64.4 last year.
Winkler Mayor Henry Siemens said the three communities were proud to be at the start of the municipal campaign, committing to $110 per capita, payable over the next 4 years.
“This is a significant contribution in a time and era when our budgets are already stressed. That is the significance we place on this project. The importance we feel this project has for our region’s continued viability, for our region’s continued growth, and for the desirability of continuing to be here. When Mayor, Reeve, and myself started talking, we quickly arrived at a place this was something we wanted to do together.”
RM of Stanley Reeve Ike Friesen agreed with Siemens and added, “RM of Stanley is very pleased to be part of this contribution together with Morden and Winkler. We recognize the need in the area and the special services that are being brought in. It will alleviate a lot of trips to Winnipeg for a lot of people in the region, and we recognize that will be important to people.”
Morden Mayor Brandon Burley shared his thoughts on working together with municipal partners.
“From our perspective, this is a generational opportunity to do something good. It’s not going to come back to us in the next 30 years to be able to do this over again. For the vision long term for our region, I think is shared with both Reeve Friesen and Mayor Siemens, that vision is for growth and cooperation. This is a project that’s going to be a forward-setting project for that ambition. We’re going to do it right, and we’ll do it right the first time. This ability to partner with Southern Health and the BTHC Foundation and provide enhanced medical amenities is one I don’t think anybody in our region is ever going to lament or regret having done.”
BTHC Foundation Board Chair Ben Friesen said this put them over the halfway mark at over $6 million towards their $10 million goal. He explained a bit about what services will be increased in the expansion project.
“Well, a huge part of this, the foundation is committed to expanding the Cancer Care. It’ll have three times the amount of space that it has upstairs right now. The level 2 Nursery is huge, huge for us. We had a daughter we spent a couple of months driving to the city every day, and it’s just huge. It’s things like that, you can truly see that are going to be worthwhile.The extra operating room, we’ve got surgery backlogs, and everybody’s always waiting for surgery. So, anything we can do to help speed up the surgery waitlist is going to be great. This $3.6 million will all be part of that.”
Friesen went on to say, requests for support from other municipalities around the area has gone out, and he is grateful for this initial show of support from these three. Businesses and the public are also making considerations to support the project, Friesen expects to be making more announcements in the future regarding more support from the area.
Friesen thanked his committee and volunteers for working on this project and to the communities for the support recognizing the significance of the donation and the efforts to work together.
“This is a regional facility and it’s just fantastic to see these three communities to come together on such a huge regional project. We are a very strong region and if we hold hands together on anything we want to do in Southern Manitoba, this region is strong and we can get things done.”
