Residence News
August 19, 2019
Teresa Dellar, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the West Island Palliative Care Residence and Founder of the Montreal Institute for Palliative Care Passes Away after Brave and Courageous Fight with Cancer
It is with deep sadness that the employees and volunteers of the West Island Palliative Care Residence, the Montreal Institute for Palliative Care, and their respective boards confirm the passing of their co-founder Teresa Dellar, M.S.C., MSW, PSW, FT. Read the full press release.
February 27, 2019
Canadian ministers explore compassionate care at the Residence
In recent weeks, we’ve been thrilled to welcome the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Canadian Minister of Health, as well as the Honourable Filomena Tassi, Canadian Minister of Seniors, to the Residence and give each a glimpse into the work that we do here: providing compassionate palliative care for our community. Francis Scarpaleggia, MP for Lac-Saint-Louis and longtime supporter of the Residence, accompanied the Ministers during each of their visits.
Members of the leadership team at the Residence presented our consolidation project, which will bring our two sites together under one roof to house our 23 beds. Dale Weil, Managing Director of the Montreal Institute for Palliative Care also highlighted what’s happening with the Institute and its first ever research project, Compassionate Communities. We shared some of the ways the Institute is working to extend our knowledge to other communities and care settings to support our goal of increasing access to comprehensive, quality palliative care for all.
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April 11, 2018
$12.5M campaign will improve access to cutting-edge palliative care. The new Residence, pictured here in a digital illustration, will be able to house all 23 current beds in one state-of-the-art facility. / Digital Illustration.
On April 11, 2018, the Residence launched its 2017-2018 Capital Campaign, Caring and Sharing – Under One Roof. The campaign aims at raising $12.5 million in order to consolidate our two separate locations into a single, state-of-the-art facility, and to share best practices in palliative care through the creation of a National Education and Knowledge Transfer Program.
You can read more about the project in our press release.
June, 2018
Caring & Sharing - Under One Roof, exceeds its goal and raised XX millions
June 2018 marked a defining moment for the future of the West Island Palliative Care Residence. Hundreds of supporters, volunteers and employees of the Residence came together to celebrate the start of construction to consolidate its two separate locations into a single, expanded facility housing all of its 23 beds under one roof.
With 16 years of leadership and service, the Residence is now poised to redefine palliative care locally and to increase capacity and access to quality palliative care across different care settings and communities in Canada. The Residence will achieve this through its new cost-efficient facility to accommodate its evolving needs and to share best practices in palliative care through the recently launched Montreal Institute for Palliative Care
Thank you to our Campaign leadership
Luc Bertrand, Campaign Co-Chair
Vice Chairman, National Bank of Canada
Erin O’Brien, Campaign Co-Chair
Senior Director & Portfolio Manager, Private Wealth Management, Jarislowsky, Fraser Limited
As Co-Chairs of the West Island Palliative Care Residence’s 2017-2018 major fundraising campaign, worked together to enable Caring & Sharing – Under One Roof.
Together with the Residence’s dedicated team and volunteers, we are putting patient needs above all else and showing the very essence of quality end-of-life care. Together with the families and loved ones of patients, we are carrying the message that patients should be able to live out their final days in peace, dignity and serenity. Together with our generous donors, we are helping the Residence pursue its essential mission and extend the benefits of palliative care to an ever-growing number of patients and families.
Thank you to the Campaign Cabinet and generous donors who made this possible.
Members
Rhonda O’Gallagher
Communications Chair
Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Pfizer Canada Inc.
Stéphanie Côté
President of Voluntas Commemoration Inc.
Dawn Graham Svoronos
Past President, Europe/Canada, Merck & Co.
Karen Groom
President, Groom & Associates
Robert Havill
Partner, TURN8 Partners
Lily Mancini
Accounting, Broccolini Construction Inc.
Len McDougall
President, Len McDougall Financial Services
Richard Ness
Managing Director, Tactico Inc.
Jim Parsons
Real Estate Broker, RE/MAX Royal (Jordan) Inc.
Rick Pattee
Retired Partner, Deloitte
Greg Weil
Manager, The Martlet Foundation
Generous donors
$500,000+
- Anonymous
- Doggone Foundation
- Eric T. Webster Foundation
- The Molson Foundation
- Montreal St-Patrick’s Foundation
- Rossy Family Foundation
BUILDER
$100,000 to $499,999
- Anonymous (2)
- Anne Myles Brown
- The Barwick Family Foundation
- BMO Financial Group
- Charles River Laboratoires
- Elsie Watson
- Fondation Famille Bertrand
- Fondation J.-Louis Lévesque
- Marc and Marisa Trottier
- National Bank of Canada
- Pfizer Canada Inc.
CHAMPION
$500,000+
- Anonymous (10)
- Cité de Dorval
- Clarus Foundation
- Erin O’Brien Foundation
- Fiera Capital Corporation
- Fondation Famille Vachon
- Fondation Sandra and Alain Bouchard
- Gavin Fernandes and Teresa Dellar
- Groom & Associates
- Jacques Chartrand and Andrée Robert
- Jarislowsky Fraser Partners Foundation
- Jeanne Marie Lefebvre
- J.P. and Muriel Longlade
- The MacCandlish Weil Family
- McKesson Canada
- Merck Canada Inc.
- Michael Novak and Kathleen Weil
- Redfern Family
- Réseau Dignité – Résidences Funéraires Collins Clarke MacGillivray White Funeral Home & Centre Funéraire Côte-des-Neiges
- Richard Ness and Silvia Pedicelli
- Russell and Gail Williams
- Ville de Baie-d’Urfé
- Ville de Beaconsfield
- Ville de Dollard-des-Ormeaux
- Ville de Kirkland
- Ville de Pointe-Claire
- Voluntas Commemoration Funeral Services
ADVOCATE
$5,000 to $24,999
- Anonymous (36)
- Cogeco Inc.
- David McAusland and Katherine Dallenbach
- The George Hogg Family Foundation
- Internal Campaign (Staff and Volunteers)
- Kris and Steve Hurlburt
- Redbourne Group
- Rick and Bonnie Pattee
- Stéphanie Côté, Denis Marcoux, Gabrielle and Annie-Rose Marcoux
- TMX Group
COMPANION
$1,000 to $4,999
- List to come