CEO’S MESSAGE
Spring 2026
PUBLISHED FOR Calgary Health Foundation
This year marks 30 years of impact for Calgary Health Foundation. It is a milestone that invites reflection and builds momentum. As Calgary continues to grow, demand on our healthcare system continues to rise. Over the past three decades, our community has shown that growth does not have to mean compromise. It can also be an opportunity to raise standards, accelerate innovation, and continuously improve the care we deliver. Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system is one of our country’s greatest achievements. It ensures access and provides the
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underpinning for care across the province. But access alone has never defined healthcare excellence. Progress depends on our ability to accelerate innovation and translate new ideas into real-world care that improves health outcomes. That is where philanthropy plays a defining role. For three decades, Calgary Health Foundation donors have helped establish a higher standard of excellence in healthcare. Public funding keeps the system operating. Philanthropy provides the margin of excellence — where promising ideas can be tested, refined, and implemented sooner, then scaled to benefit more patients. That impact is visible across healthcare in our city. With support from Calgary Health Foundation donors, philanthropy enabled the first endoscopic spine surgery in Western Canada, allowing surgeons to operate through incisions as small as six millimetres. Patients now walk out the same day, improving recovery while freeing up hospital beds. Donors also made possible a $5 million investment to create Calgary’s biggest and most modern comprehensive women’s health centre, bringing specialized services together to improve access, coordination, and patient outcomes. Another donor-supported initiative, the Sentimag pilot project, is transforming breast cancer surgery by replacing painful hook wires and radioactive injections with safe tiny markers that improve surgical precision and reduce patient anxiety. Those are just a few of the many examples showcased in this issue of Breakthroughs . For three decades, Calgary Health Foundation donors have helped innovation move from possibility to practice, setting new standards that strengthen the entire system. As demand continues to grow, the pace of improvement matters. Patients cannot wait. Innovation cannot stall. Healthcare excellence has always emerged through collaboration, public commitment, medical expertise, and philanthropy. I invite you to join us as we build on the last 30 years and shape what healthcare excellence looks like for the next generation.
ART DIRECTOR Veronica Cowan PHOTOGRAPHER Jared Sych CONTRIBUTORS
Kendra Horosko, Kimberley McNeil, Mateusz Napieralski, Ashley Oakley, Karin Olafson, Olivia Piché CEO, CO-OWNER Roger Jewett PRESIDENT, CO-OWNER
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Käthe Lemon DIRECTOR, STRATEGY & CONTENT Meredith Bailey
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Breakthroughs [ Spring 2026 ]
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