Stories

Women’s health in Calgary gets multi-year boost thanks to $10M investment through Calgary Health Foundation

Calgary Health Foundation announces a $10M investment over two years from the Government of Alberta in support of women’s health initiatives.

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Building healthy relationships with clients and staff

Nursing has been a profession that’s been passed down in Carol Anne Friesen’s family. Having strong female role models in her mother, grandma and aunt who were all nurses, she found a natural gravitation that pulled her towards becoming a nurse as well.

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Giving NICU babies the opportunity to thrive

The NICU is a place that most people don’t know about until they need it. For Katie Fraser and her husband Kyle, it was a place they came to know for 113 days while their daughter was taken care of when she was born at only 24 weeks and two days old.

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Empowering Indigenous communities through midwifery care

It was a light bulb moment for Alyssa Wiens when both her careers collided, and she knew then that she wanted to pursue Midwifery.

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When art helps you to rise

The Carewest Dr. Vernon Fanning Centre is decorated with floral paintings which, at first glance, don’t give away the artist’s identity.

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When grief becomes healing

The late Reverend Bob Glasgow connected people in their grief to communities of healing. Now, 12 years after it’s opening the Bob Glasgow Grief Support Centre continues to be a place of healing and hope.

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