If you want to support patients, frontline healthcare workers, and staff at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) during the COVID-19 crisis, the PRHC Foundation is encouraging donations.
PRHC Foundation president and CEO Lesley Heighway says the COVID-19 crisis is going to bring unprecedented challenges to PRHC.
“Your hospital needs you now more than ever,” she says. We must ensure our frontline healthcare professionals and staff have the tools, technology, and supports they need to care for their sickest patients — and for themselves — during this difficult time.”
The hospital’s key needs range from lifesaving equipment and technology to supports for patients and frontline healthcare workers and staff, according to Heighway.
She says “critical funds” are required now to ensure PRHC can respond quickly to the hospital’s fast-evolving needs as the impact of this virus is felt.
“PRHC’s expert healthcare professionals, staff, and leaders are on the frontline of this crisis and they’re mobilizing,” Heighway explains. “They’re ramping up to ensure the right resources are in place, getting ready to take care of us and the people we love with the same expertise, compassion, and dedication they demonstrate every day.”
“In the same way that PRHC’s teams are mobilizing to support you, we’re mobilizing now so we can be ready to support them as soon as help is needed. We must act quickly and do whatever we can to lessen the impact on our community, our hospital, its patients, and our frontline healthcare professionals.”
Heighway encourages anyone wishing to show their gratitude to PRHC’s healthcare professionals and staff to share a special message of hope or thanks through the PRHC Foundation’s “Share Your Message” option at its website at www.prhcfoundation.ca. No donation is required to share your message.
If you are able to donate, you can share your message and make your donation through PRHC Foundation’s Grateful Hearts program.
Working in partnership with PRHC, the Foundation has committed to sharing these messages daily with the hospital’s doctors, nurses, and staff via the hospital’s internal communications channels — providing a boost to morale when it’s needed most.
“The continued spread of COVID-19 both here at home and around the world has many of us feeling understandably anxious and worried,” Heighway notes.
“It’s also inspiring many of us to wonder how we can help. By making a donation and sharing a message of hope and thanks, you’ll be standing behind our frontline healthcare workers as they respond to the challenge ahead, helping to ease their burden.”
For more information or to donate to PRHC Foundation over the phone, call 705-876-5000. To donate online, send a Grateful Hearts message, or to send a message without a donation, visit www.prhcfoundation.ca. Donations will also be accepted by mail, care of PRHC Foundation, 1 Hospital Drive, Peterborough, ON K9J 7C6.
