Fall 2023 | Impact Report
Impact Report
Community Support for Trillium Health Partners
Your generosity in action! Community support for Trillium Health Partners Foundation events across the GTA.
June of 2023 was a successful month for the future of the Trillium Health Partners. Events were organized throughout the GTA, all with the collective goal of building Canada’s largest hospital.
Thank you to everyone who participated in a Trillium fundraising event this year.
The first event was set in the picturesque Port Credit Memorial Park. The Hazel McCallion Walk for Health saw 2,100 community members complete a 2 or 5km course followed by a free festival of music, delicious BBQ, and tons of activities for kids. Thank you to the community, sponsors, volunteers, staff, committee members, vendors and performers who helped make June 4th a day to remember and raised $750,000!
Community support for Trillium Health Partners continued to be felt from the fairways later in the month. The Women with Drive tournament united inspiring women from our community at the stunning Granite Ridge Golf Club and the Golf Classic Tournament was held at one of Canada’s most renowned courses: the Glen Abbey Golf Club of Oakville. In both tournaments, every swing supported the future of health care in the GTA, raising $110,175 and $233,120 respectively.
Last but certainly not least, The Wellness Festival on June 3rd celebrated the importance of self-wellbeing through arts and culture. At the festival, located in Celebration Square in Mississauga, attendees enjoyed a variety of activities including live music, dance performances, South Asian cuisine, and a marketplace of vendors and celebrity artists.
The Need for Support is Growing
Trillium Health Partners is one of Canada’s largest community-based hospital systems, and over the next 20 years will experience more growth in demand for services than any other hospital in Ontario. As our community needs continue to grow, your support is more critical than ever.
Year Over Year Comparison1:
65,272 inpatient admissions ↑ 2.0%
214,779 emergency visits ↑ 3.0%
69,944 surgeries ↑ 14.8%
695,674 diagnostic services ↑ 3.0%
8,026 births
1 Source: THP 2022-2023 Annual Community Report
The projected growth rate is 7X more than the average Ontario hospital.
By 2041 the community is expected to grow by nearly
1 million people (especially children/youth under 18 and seniors over 65).
Pushing Medical Innovation Further with Artificial Intelligence
Harnessing the latest technology with Signal 1’s Discharge Solution.
Trillium Health Partners is always finding new innovative ways to adapt and improve our processes with the latest in medical technology, made possible by your generous support. The Canadian health start-up Signal 1 lets us enhance patient care with an AI-powered clinical decision support system. This tool provides our medical experts with real-time insights on patient conditions and ever-changing care needs. With additional monitoring from the time of admission to discharge, our doctors can reference the technology for the best recommendations for discharge planning while ensuring patients’ needs are met. This will allow for more time with different patients, ensuring they all reach the next step in their care journey sooner.
One of our medical experts benefitting from Signal 1’s Discharge Solution.
“Trillium Health Partners is one of the busiest hospitals in Canada, and improving the efficiency of our discharge process has never been more important.ˮ
~ Craig Campbell
Program Director, Emergency and Urgent Care,
Flow and Operations, Trillium Health Partners
Use Your Voyce: The App Making Canadian Health Care More Accessible
A patient discussing his health situation with a medically trained interpreter in his native language.
~ Shalu Bains
Trillium Health Partners’ Vice President, Performance and Business Intelligence
Following the first successful pilot in a Canadian hospital, Trillium Health Partners launched a full-scale roll out of Voyce: an app that connects health care providers or patients to a medically trained interpreter. The app serves more than 240 different languages and dialects, including American Sign Language (ASL) and Indigenous languages such as Cree and Ojibwe. Voyce’s technology is invaluable in Mississauga, where more than one third of the population speaks a language other than English or French.
This app-driven solution to language barrier challenges allows health care providers to open Voyce on their tablet, request nearly any language, and get instant connection with a medically trained interpreter. Patients can speak directly about their symptoms, concerns, questions, and more. The app can also start conference calls with family members and/or caregivers. This important resource was made available by the generosity of donors like you!
Searching for a Spanish interpreter with Voyce.
How Your Support Helped the Neuro Team Win Big
How Your Support Helped We’re incredibly grateful for the support shown by our donors this past year. Your generosity allowed us to purchase multiple new Electromyography (EMG) devices that enable Trillium Health Partnersʼ doctors to perform procedures that diagnose a wide variety of neuromuscular diseases. These help detect neuromuscular abnormalities by measuring muscle responses or electrical activity from controlled nerve stimulation.
The neuro team has already earned multiple awards for our life-changing and lifesaving care. With EMG, our capabilities in diagnosing neuromuscular diseases, motor problems, nerve injuries, and degenerative conditions are stronger than ever.
A Better Tomorrow Starts With Your Legacy
We all want to leave the world a better place, which is what makes a legacy gift so meaningful. As a hospital, we know that good health is the foundation for happiness and success, inspiring Trillium Health Partners to advance a new kind of health care for our region and beyond. That includes ongoing investments in new hospital infrastructure, state-of-the-art equipment and bold new research to foster health for the entire community, all accelerated by philanthropy.
There are many simple ways to make a legacy gift that will suit any set of circumstances and reduce estate taxes. That could include:
- A gift through a Will
- A gift of life insurance or registered funds
- A gift of stocks that avoids tax on any capital gains
Leaving a legacy to benefit Trillium Health Partners is a bold investment in a better, healthier tomorrow.
To learn more, please contact:
Lindsay Murray
Manager
THP Foundation
(416) 271-1115
lindsay.murray@thp.ca