The benefit from the Barry Trotz Stanley Cup Day celebrations held this past August in Dauphin is the gift that keeps on giving. Through the Dauphin Hospital Foundation, the Trotz Family presented the Dauphin Personal Care Home (PCH) with a cheque for $6,640 on December 4, 2018.
The 2018 year was a milestone for the Dauphin Hospital Foundation (DHF). The DHF recognized its 30th year of operation since its inception in the late 1980’s —1988 to be exact.
The DHF sincerely thanks all donors for their contributions over the past year. There were some larger contributions in 2018 that received extra recognition in the media.
Pine River resident Tony Semeniuk provided a boost to the Dauphin Hospital Foundation with a recent donation of $20,000. Semeniuk indicated he was very happy to help by donating to a worthy cause and organization. Later in the day, Semeniuk made another local donation, $10,000, to the Dauphin Multi-Purpose Seniors Centre. Pictured, from left, are Mr. Semeniuk, Foundation Chairman Doug Deans, and Dauphin Regional Health Centre Director Curt Gullett.
Thanks to generous public contributions so far, the Palliative Care Redevelopment Project at Dauphin Regional Health Centre (DRHC) has been making some headway. The project, which is being undertaken in two phases, will see renovations and upgrades completed within the four Palliative Care Unit rooms and family room. This includes overall wall repairs, purchasing of new furniture and securing new TVs, which is all part of the initial phase.
The Dauphin Regional Health Centre (DRHC) has been paging patient Manny Quinn lately. However, this particular patient is actually a state-of-the-art simulator/manikin that is now in use at the health centre thanks to a generous contribution from the Dauphin Hospital Foundation and Dauphin Health Care Auxiliary.
The Dauphin Hospital Foundation wishes to congratulate the Parkland Family Medicine Residency Unit on 25 years of training rural medical residents. The Residency Unit —based out of Dauphin and in affiliation with Ste. Rose —began training physicians back in July 1991.
The following history which looks at the first 100 years of the Dauphin General Hospital was compiled by Dauphin residents Robert M. Forbes and J.J. Arthurs.
Throughout the history of the Dauphin General Hospital four problems persisted: shortage of money, staff, equipment and beds. In 1900 Dr. Bottomlay housed a few patients in a house he owned on Third Street North West Soon it was full. A hospital was a critical need.
Property for a hospital was donated by William Whitmore. It was the area between Third Street South West and Jackson Avenue, except for lots already surveyed. Northern boundary was Fourth Avenue South West He also donated property where the Dauphin Medical Clinic now stands. Money for the building came from the Rural Municipalities of Dauphin, Grandview and Gilbert Plains, from the Village of Dauphin, from private donations, and some from the provincial government. Before receiving its charter in 1901 construction began on a 24-bed wooden structure hospital. The cost was$9,000. Soon a nurses quarters residence was added. Patients paid $1 per day. Lamps lit the building. The heat source was wood. Water came from a well. A typhoid fever outbreak filled the beds and hallways. A house was rented for an isolation ward. Patients had to be turned away.