Volume 7, Issue 2

A keen interest in history lies behind the determination of Dr. Ariane Marelli, a cardiologist at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and founding director of the MUHC’s innovative McGill Adult Unit for Congenital Heart Disease Excellence (MAUDE).

$100 million of the Best Care for Life campaign’s $300-million objective has been allocated for important construction and renovation projects across the current sites.

Dr. Moyra Allen's forward-looking vision for her profession found its expression in the McGill Model of Nursing, which she developed in the 1970s and which is now applied in health care settings throughout Canada and beyond.

The Best Care for Life campaign received a number of significant donations over the last few months, including a tremendously generous half-million-dollar gift to support the efforts of Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg, a renowned researcher at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) who is working to eliminate insulin injections for patients suffering from juvenile diabetes.

The BiPAP machine is a non-invasive lightweight breathing apparatus that provides support ventilation via a nasal mask.

In this first installment of the Planned Giving Primer, John Archer, investment advisor with RBC Dominion Securities and chairman of the MUHC Foundation’s Planned Giving Committee, explains some of the basic concepts of gift planning.

All the land required to build the MUHC’s pediatric and adult hospitals, its research facilities and the Shriners Hospital is clean, safe and ready for construction; in fact, the work exceeds the strict standards of the Ministry. Meanwhile, the project is still in search of a project manager.