Mar 24, 2023 | News
Patients awake to gifts hand-delivered by nursing staff The Friends of Chinook Regional Hospital (CRH) together with Alberta Health Services Volunteer Resources, award four Healthcare Professionals of Tomorrow scholarships to exceptional volunteers each year. Two...
Sep 23, 2021 | News
Volunteers planning medical careers benefit: Here are the 2021 winners! From left: Jenay Kaytor, Uvindu Abeysekara, Eniola Fayemiwo, and Jomana Al-Shareef The Friends of Chinook Regional Hospital, together with Alberta Health...
Jan 4, 2021 | News
Patients awake to gifts hand-delivered by nursing staff Story by Jennifer Vanderlaan | Photo by Filomena Laporte-Packer Thanks to a handful of volunteers, the annual Operation Christmas Stocking once again spread abundant cheer to patients at Chinook Regional Hospital...
Nov 20, 2020 | News
Scholorship-winning Lethbridge student gives his best for Chinook Story by Sherri Gallant LETHBRIDGE — When Richard Camacho signed up to volunteer at a Calgary hospital in 2013, he had no way of knowing it would be the launch of a life-changing journey. Camacho’s...
Sep 17, 2020 | News
Four receive annual Health Care Professionals of Tomorrow scholarships The Friends of Chinook Regional Hospital (CRH) together with Alberta Health Services Volunteer Resources, award four Health Care Professionals of Tomorrow scholarships to exceptional...
Jul 27, 2020 | News
The Friends of Chinook Regional Hospital, together with Alberta Health Services Volunteer Resources, award scholarships to some exceptional volunteers each year. An organization that has long supported patients, their visitors and staff at Chinook Regional Hospital...
Jul 27, 2020 | News
More than $2.3 million raised since 1989 to fund hospital’s needs Story and photo by Sherri Gallant According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a friend is “someone attached to another person by affection or esteem.” When the Friends of Chinook Regional...
Photo: Left to Right – Richard Camacho, Bhadra Pandya, Matea Obara and Katrina Taylor
Aug 31, 2018 | News
Story and photo by Jenn Vanderlaan The Friends of Chinook Regional Hospital, together with Alberta Health Services Volunteer Resources, award scholarships to four exceptional volunteers each year. Two scholarships of $2000 and two scholarships of $1500 are awarded to...
Ryan Thomson, Site Manager, Chinook Regional Hospital, left, and Tony Jung, Executive Director, Friends of Chinook Regional Hospital, take a break from admin duties to race two of the hospital’s new wheelchairs (supplied by Friends) down a hallway at CRH.
Photo by Sherri Gallant
Feb 10, 2013 | News
Story by Sherri Gallant (originally printed in South Zone News February 2013) There’s a Proverb that says a bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If that’s the case, the Friends of Chinook Regional Hospital society must be a sweet-smelling...