Andrea, Author at Almonte Hospital Foundation

Do you have medical supplies to donate? Here’s how.

Mar 30, 2020

Thank you to the members of our communities for your generous donations of personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies. We are grateful for your support. Here are some of the specific things we need:

Hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes
N95 and surgical masks
Latex-free gloves (unopened boxes)
Protective eyewear (shields, safety googles)
Level 2 isolation gowns

If you are able to donate factory-made PPE, please contact Cindy Skebo at cskebo@agh-fvm.com to make arrangements.

Other Ways To Show Your Support

If you don’t have supplies to donate but want to show support for our front-line workers, please consider making a donation.

Support Our Frontline Workers

Mar 26, 2020

The Almonte General Hospital and the Foundation Boards of Directors would like you to know how very much we appreciate all of your efforts in dealing with COVID-19 thus far. While this unfolds across the globe, in Canada, and closer to home, we feel you deserve an early round of applause for your hard work and dedication to ensuring that the Almonte General Hospital, Fairview Manor and Lanark County Paramedic Services are well prepared.

It is your dedication to doing what you do best for residents, patients, each other, and every one of us, that makes the Almonte General Hospital, Fairview Manor and Lanark County Paramedic Services so special to all of us. We know that through COVID-19 you will be there for our community, and that provides us comfort.

We are fortunate to have each and every one of you on our team…thank you being there!!

For those of you that read this who are not members of our team, please join us in expressing our appreciation for what they have done so far, and will be called upon to do in the coming days, weeks and months. Keep them in your thoughts.

If you’d like to show your support for our staff, one way you can do so, that will also continue to help put the best tools in their hands with which to care for us, is by continuing to support the Foundation. Learn how to donate online now.

Randy Larkin, Board Chair & Rob Scott, Foundation Board Chair

COVID-19 MEMO

Mar 16, 2020

In order to help ensure the health and well-being of our staff, volunteers and supporters, the AGH FVM Foundation will be taking the following measures:

AGH FVM Foundation Offices will be closed until further notice with the exception of Wednesday afternoons between 2-4 p.m. Staff will establish a procedure to process donations at that time in order to continue preparing receipts, paying invoices etc.

During this time, Foundation staff will be working remotely and available by phone and email during regular office hours (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.).

Cheryl Moore – 613-256-2500 ext. 2610 cmoore@agh-fvm.com (Donations, receipts, volunteers, finances and event registration)
Louise Beckinsale – 613-256-2500 ext. 2296 lbeckinsale@agh-fvm.com (Special events, partnerships and sponsorships, third-party events)
Al Roberts – 613-256-2500 ext. 2297 aroberts@agh-fvm.com (Lotteries, major and planned gifts, board and governance)

Volunteer committee meetings will either be postponed until further notice or held via conference call. Committee chairs will be consulted in the next few days as to which course of action applies and committee members will receive email instructions.

The Tax and Estate Planning Seminar that was to take place Wednesday, March 25 at the Old Town Hall from 1-3 p.m. is being postponed. The new date has yet to be determined. Please call if you’d like to receive information once the new date has been chosen.

No decisions have been made about April events including the sold-out Spring Dance with Eddy and Stingrays on Saturday, April 25. Please check back with us in early April.

The Hospital has up-to-date information on its website concerning COVID 19 and what residents can do to protect themselves and their family. Please visit: www.agh-fvm.com

The Foundation is sharing information from other reliable sources such as the Hospital, Lanark, Leeds & Grenville Public Health and Ottawa Public Health via our Facebook page @AGHFVM, Instagram @aghfvmfoundation and Twitter @AGHFVMF.

Thank you for your ongoing support of our Hospital and Manor.

Rob Scott,
Chair, AGH FVM Foundation

Surgical patients at Almonte General Hospital breathe a sigh of relief

Feb 28, 2020

From Left to Right: Mary Wilson Trider, CEO and President of AGH FVM; Anne Fleming, Scharf Family Charitable Trust; Rob Scott, Chair of AGH FVM Foundation; Dr. Melissa Forbes; Lorna Bradley, Scharf Family Charitable Trust

Surgical patients at the Almonte General Hospital (AGH) are now breathing better than ever during surgeries thanks to a donation of more than $190,000 that allowed the Hospital to purchase two new Anesthesia machines, one for each of their two operating rooms.

“The Anesthesiologists are really excited about these new machines,” said Jennifer Lindsay, Manager of Surgical Services at AGH. “The old machines were at end of life, we could no longer get replacement parts quickly so sometimes that resulted in us having to delay surgeries. The two new machines are more easily adjusted which allow the Anesthetists to tailor the treatments to the patient.”

The donation was made by the Scharf Family Charitable Trust which is administered by Anne Fleming and Lorna Bradley. According to Ms. Fleming, “Lorna and I have both used the services at AGH. It’s so great to have a community hospital so close to home with caring health-care professionals. That’s the reason we’ve decided to donate to AGH each and every year.”

AGH performed approximately 700 surgeries in the main operating room (OR) during 2019 including oral surgeries, operations related to gynecology and urology and plastic surgeries. In addition 118 C-sections were performed in the Obstetrics operating room.

“We can’t thank Lorna and Anne enough for their incredible generosity towards the Hospital,” said President and CEO Mary Wilson Trider. “Their commitment to quality health care close to home will have a lasting and considerable impact on the high quality of care provided to adults and newborns in our ORs. On behalf of our patients, physicians and staff, I want to thank them for their donation.”

“This gift is yet another amazing example of how the community, individuals like you and me, local businesses and organizations, can actually influence the quality of care provided at their local hospital,” said Foundation Chair Rob Scott. “Whether its $190,000 or $10 a month, everyone who counts on this hospital can directly impact the quality of care they receive, or that their family receives, by supporting the work of the AGH FVM Foundation.”

The AGH FVM Foundation works with the community to raise funds that allow the Hospital and Manor to replace old or purchase new equipment on an annual basis. Although the Ministry of Health provides funds to operate the two facilities including staff salaries, medications and maintenance, the Hospital and Manor rely 100% on funds contributed by the community to purchase needed clinical equipment.

Anne Fleming and Lorna Bradley, Scharf Family Charitable Trust with Dr. Melissa Forbes

Touch Your Loved Ones By Supporting Healthcare Close To Home

Dec 23, 2019

I just celebrated my 80th birthday thanks to the wonderful medical teams at the Almonte General Hospital (AGH). You see, I had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure and if it hadn’t been for them, I don’t think I’d be here to write this letter to you now — But here I am, looking forward to sharing all the love and magic that comes with the holiday season!

As an immensely grateful patient of the Almonte General Hospital I’m asking you to join me in making a special year-end donation for the purchase of life-saving medical equipment that our community urgently needs.

Your gift today, either a one-time amount of $45, $75 or $100 or a monthly donation of $10, $25 or $40 ensures that AGH continues to provide the best medical care and services right here, close to home.

When you find yourself needing medical treatment as I did last year, you hope it’ll be the best! Not having to travel far from home is also a huge benefit!

For me, the AGH and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute worked together to give me the best possible chance to survive. My heart was so weak the doctors kept me in the AGH to keep a close eye on my condition until the Heart Institute could perform the procedures I needed.

Two weeks later, I was discharged and sent home to Almonte. The doctors said I would never be able to walk without a walker or even walk up two stairs.

It was then that the rehab team at the Ottawa Valley Family Health Team (OVFHT) really took over and helped me through their Cardiac Rehab Program. I was there twice a week for twelve weeks and now I can walk on my own and I work out at the gym three days a week! I feel great! I’m as close to being a poster boy for that hospital as anyone could be!

I’m sure we wouldn’t have made it through all of this without the help of the doctors and staff at the AGH and OVFHT. Everyone just bent over backwards to make sure I was ok.

Having such great healthcare close to home means shorter wait times in Emergency, much less travel time and friendly, familiar faces on the other end of the stethoscope!

I do hope you’ll chip in whatever amount you can so this gem we have right here can take care of us when we need it with quality health care that’s close to home!

Bonnie and I wish you a very safe and Happy Holiday!

Richard Love

P.S. For more than a century, The Almonte General Hospital has been providing medical care to the residents of Mississippi Mills, Carleton Place, West Carleton, the West end of Ottawa and surrounding townships. The medical care at Almonte General Hospital, Fairview Manor, the Lanark County Paramedic Service, and our on-site partners provide additional health and community services in one location – close to home. It’s a true Health hub!

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