Everyone Wins with the Hospital Home Lottery

The Spring 2019 Hospital Home Lottery was a resounding success! The lottery sold out early, and proceeds supported Palliative Care Unit renovations as part of our $20 million Close to Home Campaign to build Saskatoon’s first free-standing hospice and improve end-of-life care.

Thanks to everyone who bought a ticket, we’re closer to our goal of bringing important renovations to the Palliative Care Unit at St. Paul’s Hospital. 

The 12-bed Palliative Care Unit provides complex symptom management and is currently the only unit dedicated to the delivery of end-of-life care in our city. 

You can see the full list of Spring 2019 Hospital Home Lottery winners on the Hospital Home Lottery website.

The Hospital Home Lottery is held each Spring and Fall in support of three Saskatoon Hospitals — St. Paul’s Hospital, Saskatoon City Hospital, and Royal University Hospital. 

Last year the spring and fall lotteries raised more than $1.2 million. The spring lottery supported the purchase of a state-of-the-art automated pneumatic tube transport system that moves laboratory specimens, medications and blood products quickly and securely throughout St. Paul’s Hospital. 

The fall lottery supported equipment such as a Labscan Luminex to identify gene sequences for organ and bone marrow transplant patients, a Draeger PulmoVista that provides a real-time look at the ventilation of patient lungs, and a Supine Cycle to provide physical therapy for Intensive Care Unit patients.

Watch for the 2019 Fall lottery, which will be launching in August in support of building Saskatoon’s first free-standing hospice. The hospice will be built around the needs of people who want to live in a comfortable home-like setting until the end. Learn more about the Close to Home Campaign for Hospice and End-of-life Care at www.closetohome.fund.