Stories

Thanks to the partnership between the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Mike Petryk School of Dentistry at the University of Alberta, hundreds of kids receive essential oral care they need each year, for free.

Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children, affecting nearly 850,000 Canadian children under the age of 14. Thanks to research supported by the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation through WCHRI, researchers are exploring ways to more accurately diagnose asthma in children.

Thanks to funding received from WCHRI and the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, Dr. West’s team is well on their way to launching a new diagnostic assay to measure ABO antibodies.

Thanks to your generosity, we can purchase state-of-the-art equipment such as a fetal echo ultrasound machine for the Stollery Children’s Hospital’s Fetal & Neonatal Cardiology Program at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

Through your generosity, we’re supporting excellence in all three Stollery neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) sites by inviting expert Stollery NICU nurses to pursue further education at the University of Alberta to become neonatal nurse practitioners.

Your donations have funded and grown the Stollery Neonatal Home Support Team (NHST) for the past five years, leading to significantly improved outcomes for pre-term infants and allowing them to stay where they thrive the best – at home with their families.

With donor support, we’re raising $3 million over five years toward the Stollery Centre for Excellence in Virtual Health to expand virtual health care at the Stollery and forever change how urgent, expert Stollery care is delivered in our province and beyond.

On this month’s Trending, Chelsea Bird stops by Dr. Todd Alexander's research lab at the Women and Children's Health Research Institute to learn more about the vital connection between research, the specialized care offered at the Stollery Children's Hospital and how the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation is bridging the two.