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Health and Wellness

Shuswap Community Foundation Health and Wellness Icon

Health and Wellness

Since 1986 the Shuswap Hospital Foundation has been transforming generosity into better health care. As a registered charitable society, the Foundation has worked alongside our community to ensure that residents and visitors alike have access to the best possible care, close to home.

Today, the Foundation supports Shuswap Lake General Hospital and area health care facilities serving more than 36,000 residents throughout the region—from Sicamous to Sorrento. As our population continues to grow, and with thousands of additional visitors travelling through the region each year via the Trans-Canada Highway, the demand for high-quality health care services and advanced medical equipment continues to increase.

Your Gift Makes a Lasting Difference

Every donation to the Shuswap Hospital Foundation helps provide:

  • Priority medical equipment that enhances patient care and outcomes.
  • Essential equipment upgrades that keep pace with advances in health care.
  • Facility improvements that support safer, more efficient care environments.
  • Greater local access to specialized health-related equipment and services.

Over the years, donor support has funded countless pieces of life-saving and life-enhancing equipment, helping physicians, nurses, and health care professionals deliver exceptional care to patients throughout the Shuswap region. From major capital projects to critical bedside equipment, every investment strengthens our community’s health care system.

Building a Legacy of Care

Each year, the Foundation’s Board of Directors carefully evaluates emerging equipment needs and opportunities to improve local health care. While the needs continue to grow, it is the generosity of our donors that turns these opportunities into realities.

An Endowment Fund provides a unique opportunity to create a lasting legacy. Through endowed giving, your contribution continues to generate support year after year, ensuring that future generations will benefit from outstanding health care close to home.

When you give to the Shuswap Hospital Foundation Endowment, you are investing in:

  • A healthier future for our community.
  • Enhanced patient care for family, friends, and neighbours.
  • Sustainable funding for critical health care needs.
  • A legacy of compassion, generosity, and community leadership.

Together, We Can Shape the Future of Health Care

The future will bring new challenges, advancing technologies, and increasing demands on our health care system. With your support, we can ensure that our hospital and health care facilities remain equipped to provide the highest standard of care for generations to come.

Your gift is more than a donation—it is an investment in hope, healing, and health care excellence.

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Since 1986 the Shuswap Hospital Foundation has been transforming generosity into better health care. As a registered charitable society, the Foundation has worked alongside our community to ensure that residents and visitors alike have access to the best possible care, close to home.

Today, the Foundation supports Shuswap Lake General Hospital and area health care facilities serving more than 36,000 residents throughout the region—from Sicamous to Sorrento. As our population continues to grow, and with thousands of additional visitors travelling through the region each year via the Trans-Canada Highway, the demand for high-quality health care services and advanced medical equipment continues to increase.

Your Gift Makes a Lasting Difference

Every donation to the Shuswap Hospital Foundation helps provide:

  • Priority medical equipment that enhances patient care and outcomes.
  • Essential equipment upgrades that keep pace with advances in health care.
  • Facility improvements that support safer, more efficient care environments.
  • Greater local access to specialized health-related equipment and services.

Over the years, donor support has funded countless pieces of life-saving and life-enhancing equipment, helping physicians, nurses, and health care professionals deliver exceptional care to patients throughout the Shuswap region. From major capital projects to critical bedside equipment, every investment strengthens our community’s health care system.

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Building a Legacy of Care

Each year, the Foundation’s Board of Directors carefully evaluates emerging equipment needs and opportunities to improve local health care. While the needs continue to grow, it is the generosity of our donors that turns these opportunities into realities.

An Endowment Fund provides a unique opportunity to create a lasting legacy. Through endowed giving, your contribution continues to generate support year after year, ensuring that future generations will benefit from outstanding health care close to home.

When you give to the Shuswap Hospital Foundation Endowment, you are investing in:

  • A healthier future for our community.
  • Enhanced patient care for family, friends, and neighbours.
  • Sustainable funding for critical health care needs.
  • A legacy of compassion, generosity, and community leadership.
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Together, We Can Shape the Future of Health Care

The future will bring new challenges, advancing technologies, and increasing demands on our health care system. With your support, we can ensure that our hospital and health care facilities remain equipped to provide the highest standard of care for generations to come.

Your gift is more than a donation—it is an investment in hope, healing, and health care excellence.

Donate to this fund

Donations to this fund can be made by e-transfer (preferred), by cheque, donated securities, in person at any SASCU branch, through a gift of securities, or online through CanadaHelps.

The simplest way to donate to this fund is by sending e-transfer to:

Recipient: info@shuswapfoundation.ca
Add a memo to your e-transfer naming the specific fund you are donating to.

Include your address and full name for a tax receipt. A security question is not required (funds will be auto-deposited).

Send a cheque to:

Shuswap Community Foundation
102 – 160 Harbourfront Drive NE
Salmon Arm, BC, V1E 3M3
Canada

Cheques should be payable to “Shuswap Community Foundation“ and include the fund name in the memo field.

You can make a donation to this fund through Salmon Arm Savings and Credit Union (SASCU). Simply visit any branch and ask to donate to Shuswap Community Foundation, along with the specific fund name.


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Receipts for taxation purposes can be provided by emailing a copy of your deposit receipt to info@shuswapfoundation.ca.

A gift of publicly traded securities can be an attractive option. The Income Tax Act provides that capital gains on securities donated to a charity are exempt from tax, but the donor will receive a tax receipt for the full appreciated value. You will receive a tax receipt for the value of the stock at the time of transfer, and may carry forward for up to five years any unused portions of the gift.

Please talk to your professional adviser or broker to make stock transfers easily. You may download the Share Transfers Form for when you meet with your broker.

Learn more about the Benefits of Donating Securities or contact us by email at info@shuswapfoundation.ca or phone 250-832-5428 for more information.

Donations to this fund can be made securely and conveniently through the CanadaHelps online platform.

Be sure to select the correct fund from the “Fund” field (near the top of the form).


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