📣 ICYMI: Nova Scotian fashion designer John Michael Brewer, founder of The Drunk Gurl Collection, is giving back to local cancer care with over $2,000 raised for wigs at QEII’s new Sunshine Room.☀️ Watch the CTV News story: https://bit.ly/4i9MpTk

Leading-edge healthcare breakthroughs begin with generosity. Today, on National Philanthropy Day, we celebrate you. Our QEII Foundation donors, partners, and champions of advancing health care, here at home in Nova Scotia. Thank you for making a difference. 💜

The QEII Foundation Diversity in Health Care Bursaries, valued at $2,000 each, are an investment in stronger, more diverse healthcare teams. On September 9, healthcare students, donors and other guests gathered to celebrate the 2025 recipients.💜 Read more: https://bit.ly/47ArbdX

In this Q&A, Dr. Stephanie Scott, Division Head of Gynaecologic Oncology at the QEII, shares how surgical robotics is changing the future of care for patients and families across Atlantic Canada. 💜 Read more:

This Remembrance Day, we honour our Canadian veterans. 🍁 Last week, members of Maritime Forces Atlantic joined QEII staff to refresh the Veterans Memorial Garden at the QEII’s Camp Hill Veterans Memorial Building in preparation for Veterans’ Week. 💜

DOUBLE your impact! Support the QEII’s Centre of Excellence in Robotics and help fund a second da Vinci robot for the QEII Health Sciences Centre. Your gift will be DOUBLED, up to $100,000, until December 31, 2025, thanks to the Davison family. Donate now. 💜 https://bit.ly/4qQGS8l

📣 ICYMI: This year's Hockey for Hope tournament raised more than $36,000, reopening vital mental health grants for QEII cancer patients.

These grants help provide access to mental health supports that help cancer patients cope during and after treatment .💜 Read more: https://bit.ly/4hTcyGc

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We’re thrilled to welcome Rob Barbara to our QEII Foundation Board of Directors! As managing partner at Build Ventures, Rob is an accomplished leader in entrepreneurship and investment management, sharing his experience to help transform care through the QEII Health Sciences Centre. 💜

Thanks to generous QEII Foundation donors, patients and their loved ones at the QEII Health Sciences Centre’s palliative care unit now have comfortable cuddle beds that accommodate two people, ideal for spouses and children visiting their loved ones.💜 Read more: https://bit.ly/42u9Yjj

✉️⚠️ Ongoing mail disruption alert! During the ongoing Canada Post disruption, we encourage our supporters to make gifts online at any time at QE2Foundation.ca, or call 1-902-334-1546 during our business hours (Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) to avoid any delay in tax receipting.

When Linda needed spinal surgery for back pain, she and her husband Don had lots of questions about what to expect. Thanks to a donor-funded QEII Foundation Comfort & Care grant, the couple received a pre-operative and patient and caregiver session. 💜 Read more: https://bit.ly/4nFD5bV

It's World Contraception Day! Did you know that the QEII’s ROSE Clinic provides IUDs at no cost to patients who otherwise couldn’t afford them? It can only provide free IUDs with the support of generous QEII Foundation donors. Stock the ROSE Clinic: https://bit.ly/3uQWosO

This past Wednesday, we welcomed Ricci Hawkins and Robert Paddick to the QEII's Camp Hill Veterans Memorial Building to present a generous $2,000 gift supporting the QEII's Veterans Memorial Garden, on behalf of the Royal Canadian Legion - Lower Sackville, Branch #162. 💜🌻Thank you!

💡 Did you know? The QEII Health Sciences Centre is one of the only hospitals in Canada that’s home to six surgical robots; five of which are donor-funded by QEII Foundation donors and our surrounding community. 💜