Grant and Funding Programs Offered by Daysland Hospital Foundation (DGHF)

Daysland Hospital Foundation, also referred to as the Daysland General Hospital Foundation, is a registered charitable foundation established in 1985 to support the Daysland Health Centre and related medical clinics in rural Alberta. The foundation’s core role is to raise and allocate funds for medical equipment, facility improvements and health education that are not otherwise financed by the provincial Department of Health. Its funding helps the local hospital maintain and broaden the scope of services for residents of Daysland and surrounding communities.

The foundation focuses its financial support on priority equipment and capital needs identified by clinicians and administrators. Examples highlighted on the site include portable ultrasound machines, HD colonoscopes, stretchers and beds, pediatric crash cart systems such as the Broselow Tape, and a wide range of diagnostic and monitoring devices. Campaigns like “Buy a Brick” are organized to finance major projects, such as the construction and equipping of an expanded medical clinic serving a large rural catchment area.

In addition to equipment purchases, the foundation’s mandate includes supporting educational programs for patients, staff, physicians and the general public, helping keep local care teams current with evolving technologies and procedures. Past funding has also supported physician recruitment and the opening of a physician’s clinic, with total fundraising in excess of $1.2 million for that initiative alone.

Beneficiaries of the foundation’s funding are primarily the Daysland Health Centre, associated clinics such as the Forestburg clinic, and the patients who use these services. Projects often benefit a broad rural region, with the medical clinic serving patients within a radius of roughly 40 miles and beyond. Investments in equipment like laparoscopic surgery tools, cardiac monitors, bladder scanners, wheelchairs and barrier-free exam tables directly enhance care quality and access for this rural population.

The foundation relies on individual donations, memorial giving, planned gifts, special events, corporate contributions and grants from municipalities or other partners. Donors may designate their gifts toward particular purposes, or leave them undesignated for the board to allocate where needs are greatest. The site documents past equipment purchases with itemized costs, providing transparency on how community contributions have been transformed into concrete improvements in local health services.

A volunteer board of directors made up largely of local residents and health professionals oversees the foundation’s activities and funding decisions. While detailed program guidelines are not presented as formal “grant programs,” the documented history of purchases and campaigns demonstrates ongoing, discretionary funding of hospital and clinic priorities, with an emphasis on tangible health outcomes for the community.