Southlake - Priority Funding Needs

Priority Funding Needs

With government funding covering only a portion of the costs for hospitals’ needs, we look to the community to help ensure the best care possible. While every Southlake medical service is important and needs your help, the following programs have been identified as urgent priorities.

We hope that we can count on your help.

Building the Regional Cancer Program
Right now, as you read these words, 10 York Region residents are reeling from the news they received today – a diagnosis of cancer.

And every day, 10 more York Region residents receive that news.

Take a moment to imagine the impact. And imagine the added burden of trying to determine how they will manage their lives – home, work, children, family – as they face months of daily and weekly medical appointments, some far from home. These are our friends, our neighbours, our colleagues, and our family members, and we are sure you join us in wishing that you could make their journey easier.

You can, and we hope that you will.

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Cardiac Care: Creating a Centre of Excellence
Since launching the Regional Cardiac Care Program in 2003, Southlake has worked tirelessly to build a team of exceptional healthcare professionals who have established and maintained the highest level of advanced cardiac services. In less than 7 years, Southlake has emerged as a full-scale, state-of-the-art facility that is the 3rd busiest regional cardiac program in Ontario with a well-earned reputation for pioneering procedures.

Southlake’s Regional Cardiac Care Program is one of the top centres for treating arrhythmias or irregular heart rates and became the first program worldwide in 2007 to introduce a new, groundbreaking technology to treat patients suffering with life threatening arrhythmias. Since April 2008, the Cardiac Care Program has had the capability to perform minimally-invasive laser lead extractions on patients requiring their leads to be removed from the heart due to infection or other risk issues, one of only a few hospitals in Ontario to do so. More recently, in July of 2008, Southlake became the first Hospital in Canada to implant a wireless defibrillator.

But there is more to be done.

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Surgery: Equipping the Southlake Healthcare Team
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) represents one of the most important advances in surgical procedures and is believed to be the wave of the surgical future. In fact, 75% of Southlake’s surgical procedures – for everything from gall bladders to cancer – are done this way.

MIS gives us the ability to convert procedures that once required a hospital stay into ones that allow people to recover in their own home. Not only do our patients benefit, but procedures like MIS allow us to increase hospital efficiencies, wait times and bed capacity.

But MIS requires highly sophisticated surgeons’ tools.

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Whipper Watson Endowment Fund
It was the generosity of corporations and the community, spearheaded by the passion of professional wrestler Whipper Billy Watson, that helped build the original Whipper Watson Therapeutic Pool in 1976. Today, the Whipper Watson Therapeutic Pool is the only hospital-based facility of its kind in York Region. Each year, thousands of people receive pain relief and therapeutic benefits in its warm waters. But we need your help to ensure that this invaluable asset continues its vital work.

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