When Mike Leach was diagnosed with a serious diabetic ulcer, his surgeon delivered a stark warning, “without surgery, you could lose your foot.” Suddenly, Mike was facing not one, but two urgent, lifesaving vascular surgeries at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC).
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This October, warm your heart and fill your freezer during the Dumpling Drive at Hanoi House (Unit 4-1040 Lansdowne St. W., Peterborough).
All month long, Hanoi House is selling their handmade pork and vegetable dumplings for $25 a bag. Whether you’re stocking up for cozy fall dinners or quick weekday meals, your dumpling cravings will help support regional healthcare. 50% of every sale will go directly to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation.
Through your support of the Campaign for PRHC, we’re transforming patient care by investing in state-of-the-art technology the government doesn’t fund, bringing new lifesaving services to our region, fuelling innovation, and attracting the best and brightest healthcare professionals to PRHC.
During the postal disruption, our commitment to reimagining health and care in our region remains strong. While the uncertainty continues, there are other convenient ways to give.
Please consider making your donation…
Thank you for empowering world-class care, close to home.
When you’re facing the complex, life-threatening effects of vascular disease, being told you need urgent surgical care to avoid amputation is overwhelming enough. Right now, at Peterborough Regional Health Centre, vascular patients often need multiple procedures on different days to save life and limb. Each carries its own risk, recovery, and stress.
A hybrid operating room would change that.
This advanced surgical space would allow PRHC’s experts to perform multiple procedures at once, in a single room, during a single session.
For patients, that means fewer risks and complications, a shorter hospital stay, only one recovery, and most importantly, more time at home with family and friends, doing what they love with less pain.
This is the future of vascular care. A hybrid OR will make better, more advanced, lifesaving treatment available close to home for the more than 600,000 people in our region who rely on PRHC.
But this $6 million cutting-edge technology won’t be funded by the government. It will be possible only through donor support. Help bring safer, faster vascular care to PRHC, because every second counts.
For more information or to donate, please call 705-876-5000 or click here.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Mom Victoria Wasson, dad Stephen Moloney, brother Wyatt and sister Harper – who recently donated $5,309.80 to the PRHC Foundation from an earlier fundraiser – are inviting the community to lace up their skates to support the smallest and bravest cancer warriors among us.
Wyatt was just eight months old when he was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma. Throughout every treatment and hospital stay, he received expert, compassionate care at PRHC. His family is passionate about giving back by supporting pediatric cancer care at the Health Centre. This month it’s through Blades of Bravery, a special family-friendly open skate.
Come and enjoy hot chocolate, sweet treats, and the warmth of a community united for a meaningful cause. Please sport your yellow or gold to show your support for childhood cancer awareness.
Cancer Takedown is returning to the stage for a fourth straight year – now with two shows! This spirit- and fundraiser will take place in both Peterborough and Lindsay.
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By starting a fundraising page, I was able to give everyone an easy way to offer their support when they didn’t know what else to do and it allowed me to accept the help my network wanted to provide, knowing it would support other patients like me.
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A hybrid operating suite allows specialists to perform imaging, minimally invasive procedures, and open surgery—on one patient, in one room, on the same day.
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The vascular system is one of the most important systems in the body. It’s a highly trained network that connects all the organs and all of our tissues so that we can function. The network includes the arteries, the veins and the lymph nodes, from head to toe. It allows for the flow of all of the nutrients that we need to think, to speak, to move, and to feel well.
In Canada, vascular disease is the leading cause of preventable death and disability. It happens when there are issues with how blood flows through the body—whether that’s in the arteries, the veins or even with the blood itself.
Vascular patients tend to have multiple life-threatening conditions that require complex, time-sensitive care. If that care has to happen in a traditional operating suite, they will have one surgery, recover, have another surgery, recover, and so on. But that traditional process extends the length of treatment a lot longer than necessary and many patients aren’t strong enough or don’t have time to endure multiple procedures and their recoveries.
A solution exists. A hybrid operating room allows specialized clinical teams to perform diagnostic imaging, minimally invasive procedures, and complex surgeries on one patient, in one room, during one surgical session.
This groundbreaking approach offers safer and more seamless care, leading to better patient outcomes, and ensuring patients experience…
Currently, PRHC’s operating suites don’t support hybrid care. To create a hybrid OR at PRHC for the first time, $6 million in donor support is needed. The PRHC Foundation is committed to making this a reality and reimagining surgical care for thousands of patients from across our region.
For more information or to donate, please call 705-876-5000 or click here.
As the number of cancer cases in our region continues to grow, so does the urgency for faster, more precise diagnoses and treatment plans.
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