Your Generosity Is Changing Lives Across Mississauga and the GTA
Your generosity helps shape the future of health care at Trillium Health Partners. Through donor support, we strengthen patient care across Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga Hospital, and Queensway Health Centre. Your impact is seen every day through improvements to medical equipment, expanded programs, enhanced care environments, and new innovations that support patients and families.
She was injured and scared – Credit Valley Hospital Was Ready to Help
Kartika received emergency care at Credit Valley Hospital and now gives monthly in gratitude.
Kartika was looking forward to spending the day with her friend. But as they got into the car, little did she know that events would soon take an unfortunate turn. They were involved in a car accident – and Kartika “blanked out.”
The next thing she knew, she was in the back of an ambulance and experiencing an intense pain in her chest. As she struggled to make sense of what was happening, she remembers thinking: “With me being alone and without a family member around, it was scary and also traumatic…”
But the health care team at Trillium Health Partners was ready to offer support and care when Kartika was really depending on it. They helped soothe her anxiety and provided reassurance, emphasizing that although she was injured and in pain, she would recover from the accident.
Staff made sure Kartika was comfortable during transfers, moving her with careful attention to her injuries. They answered her questions patiently and thoroughly. Kartika says, “I was scared, but the people at Credit Valley Hospital made it look easy.”
Within weeks, Kartika was back on her feet and back at work. She is grateful for the health care team at Trillium Health Partners, for the compassionate care she received – and for dedicated supporters like you who do so much to help make that care possible. She now makes monthly donations as a small token of her appreciation.
Have you considered joining Kartika as a monthly supporter?
There are many benefits to monthly giving! Monthly giving is an affordable, convenient, and impactful way to give. Smaller automated gifts fit easily into your budget while providing reliable support for the causes you care about.
Monthly giving is:
- Easier on the wallet – Spreading your support throughout the year makes budgeting easier. Smaller, manageable gifts add up to a meaningful annual contribution without the strain of a large one-time donation.
- Utterly convenient – Your donations are processed automatically, so you can set it and forget it. Plus, you can update, pause, or change your gift any time.
- Maximized for impact – Less overhead means better value. Lower administrative costs mean more of your gift goes where it’s needed most.
- Streamlined at year’s end – Receive one consolidated tax receipt for all your annual contributions, making tax time easier.
If you are already a monthly supporter and would like to share the story that inspired you to join us, please contact Laura Gambino at [email protected]
The first MRI machine at Queensway Health Centre!
The new MRI suite at Queensway Health Centre uses AI tools for faster, clearer scans.
Patients now have faster access to MRI scans, closer to home, with MRI services recently becoming operational at Trillium Health Partners Queensway Health Centre. This MRI machine represents a significant upgrade in diagnostic care. By utilizing built-in AI tools (such as Deep Resolve Boost and Qure.ai), the machine greatly enhances image clarity, shortens scan times, and identifies urgent cases much faster than older legacy equipment.
These technological advancements change and improve patient care in several key ways:
- Shorter scan times: Shorter MRI scan times mean less time spent in a noisy machine. Thanks to AI and advanced imaging software, exams that traditionally took 30 to 45 minutes can now be finished in 10 to 15 minutes. This results in a much easier and more comfortable overall experience.
- Increased comfort: Because the machine takes less time to scan, patients are required to stay still in the confined space for shorter periods, making the experience more comfortable and less stressful.
- Superior image quality: The new AI-powered coils and software provide clearer, more detailed anatomical images. This leads to more precise, earlier diagnoses for illnesses, cancers, and injuries. MRI Machine
- Faster answers: Care teams and specialists are able to access and review scans in real-time, allowing them to make critical, informed treatment decisions without unnecessary delays.
Caring supporters like you help make these crucial investments in cutting-edge technology possible. Thank you for your generosity and dedication to exceptional health care at Trillium Health Partners!
Inside the Trillium HealthWorks Experience Centre: Testing Hospital Design Before It’s Built
The Trillium HealthWorks Experience Centre was created as a mock hospital site to help plan the new Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital and the Shah Family Hospital for Women and Children with care, intention, and real-world insight.
Before construction is finalized, doctors, nurses, cleaning staff, clinical teams, architects, and planners are using these mock spaces to test room layouts, equipment placement, workflows, and patient journey simulations, ensuring each decision supports safety, dignity, comfort, and exceptional care.
This mindful planning has led to meaningful impact. For example, lighting was redesigned to make cleaning easier, medication rooms were refined to reduce distractions and improve safety, an operating room door was changed to a smaller, locally sourced and more cost-effective option, and medical/surgical room layouts were reworked to give care teams more space to move safely around patients.
By learning from frontline expertise, comparable hospital sites and best clinical practices, Trillium Health Partners is ensuring that funds from supporters like you are used effectively and efficiently while creating spaces that drive faster response times, greater privacy, safer medication preparation, family-centred care and more compassionate patient experiences.
Every detail, from natural light and accessible washrooms to private neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU) rooms, in-room dialysis, birthing tubs, and mental health spaces that support comfort and dignity, reflects a commitment to building a hospital designed around the full patient journey.
Trillium Health Partners is not simply building new rooms, it is building a hospital shaped by expertise, evidence, gratitude, and a deep respect for every patient and family who will one day walk through its doors.
These health care spaces, and the equipment that will be needed to fill them, are only made possible with the help of caring supporters like you! You are bringing this vision to life through your generous support, ensuring that patients will benefit from innovative, healing-focused, whole-person care for years to come.
She knew something was wrong...
Darcie Clerici and her family gave $300,000 after her surgical care at Trillium Health Partners.
Darcie Clerici recalls having pain in her right side, dark coloured urine no matter how much water she drank, and a severe constant itch that was keeping her up at night.
Concerned, her doctor ordered blood work – and almost everything on the panel came back as abnormal. That’s when her doctor urged her to go to the Emergency Room. Further tests followed – an ultrasound, more bloodwork, and finally an MRI that revealed the cause: A tumour blocking her bile duct.
Darcie remembers thinking “Is this curable? How long do I have? I have a five-year-old daughter…”
That’s when Darcie was referred to Trillium Health Partners. Her symptoms required swift intervention, with a care plan that involved changing a blocked stent that had been placed in her bile duct at another hospital. Her tumour, along with part of her liver, gallbladder, and most of her bile duct would also have to be removed.
Darcie was able to receive coordinated, compassionate, expert care at Trillium Health Partners, without ever leaving her community – and for her, being close to home means everything. As her treatment continues with regular rounds of radiation and oral chemotherapy, Darcie and her family’s gratitude for the care she continues to receive has also spurred them into action.
Along with Connie Clerici, Darcie’s mother-in-law, the family has donated more than $300,000 to purchase key equipment for the surgical team at Trillium Health Partners. This additional equipment will enable more of these surgeries to be performed.
When asked about their decision to support Trillium Health Partners with this very generous donation, Darcie says: “I feel like they saved my life, and the care I received was exceptional. We just want other patients and families to get that same level of care that I did.”
Thanks to the incredible generosity of Connie Clerici and the Clerici family, more patients will benefit from the specialized equipment needed to perform complex surgeries close to home. Supporters like you help Trillium Health Partners purchase equipment, like ultrasound and MRI technology, that patients and care teams depend on every day.
Your generosity is helping AI transform patient care
AI tools are helping clinicians turn patient feedback into real improvements in care.
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, Trillium Health Partners is able to invest in tools that help make care better for patients and families. This includes items like innovative AI tools that help our teams listen more closely to patient feedback, identify common themes, and turn those insights into meaningful actions that improve the patient’s experience.
In mammography, AI-enabled patient experience surveys helped reveal that some patients felt unsure, unsupported, or anxious during their appointment. By quickly synthesizing patient comments and highlighting areas for improvement, these tools gave clinical leaders clearer information about what matters most to patients throughout their journey.
Because of funding provided by thoughtful supporters like you, initiatives like AI are helping transform patient feedback into action—creating moments of care that help people feel seen, heard, and supported.
The real difference is not only the scan itself, but how patients feel throughout the entire experience. From the moment they arrive at registration, to their interaction with the technologist, to the moment they leave – patients may not remember every detail of the procedure, but they remember whether they were treated with kindness, whether things were explained clearly, and whether someone took the time to check in with them.
With AI helping to identify opportunities for improvement, teams can create scripts and care practices rooted in empathy, validation, perspective-taking, and reflective listening. These may seem like small changes, but together they can shape a patient’s journey in powerful ways.
Your generous support enables these important investments and helps ensure exceptional care continues to evolve at Trillium Health Partners. Thank you!
Your Generosity at Work
You are driving transformation across Trillium Health Partners in ways that will be felt for decades. Your generosity is making amazing things possible, like:
- The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital – at the heart of the largest infrastructure redevelopment project in Canadian history, it will be the largest, most advanced hospital in Canada.
- Shah Family Hospital for Women and Children – Ontario’s first hospital dedicated exclusively to women’s and children’s health.
- The Gilgan Family Queensway Health Centre – a major expansion into a centre of excellence for rehabilitation and complex continuing care.
- Advanced diagnostic technology through the Cator Family Diagnostic Imaging Program – improving accuracy, reducing wait times, and raising the standard of care.
- The Institute for Better Health – where donor funded research is generating real solutions for a healthier community.
You Help Bring World Class Care Within Reach
Your generous support is powering vital equipment and technology upgrades across Trillium Health Partners. This includes urgently needed updates like:
- Patient beds across Trillium Health Partners Mississauga Hospital and Credit Valley Hospital, providing greater comfort, safety, and dignity for patients.
- A spine surgery table at Trillium Health Partners Mississauga Hospital enabling our surgical team to perform complex procedures with greater precision.
- IV pumps at Trillium Health Partners Credit Valley Hospital ensure accurate, reliable medication delivery at the bedside.
- Point-of-care ultrasound for diagnostic imaging at Trillium Health Partners Mississauga Hospital putting real-time diagnostic capability directly in the hands of our clinicians.
- Incubators for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) give our tiniest and most vulnerable patients the warmth and specialized care they need from their very first moments.
Innovative hospital design improves patient healing
When it comes to hospitals, design choices are about more than just aesthetics – they also serve as key clinical tools, intended to play an integral role in patient care innovation and faster recovery.
Your support is helping bring these key design features to life at The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital:
- Floor-to-ceiling windows to maximize natural daylight in patient rooms.
- Visual privacy solutions that are durable, easy to clean, and accessible for patients with limited dexterity or those using wheelchairs.
- Window treatments are designed to control sunlight and glare while supporting infection prevention.
- Room orientation optimized for sun exposure, with black-out blinds or roller shades where intense sunlight occurs.
Through purpose-built design that promotes dignity, healing, and recovery, the new hospitals are being constructed to support healthier outcomes using a coordinated, proactive, and personalized approach to patient care.
Inpatient Room
Your Legacy Isn’t a Moment - It’s Momentum!
It starts with one decision and lives on in every life touched. Legacy giving isn’t just about leaving something behind – it’s about setting meaningful change in motion.
From life-saving research to innovative treatments, every advancement in health care begins with a decision to help.
When you make a legacy gift, you are supporting new hospital infrastructure, state-of-the-art equipment, and bold new research. You are investing in health care that you, your children, and your grandchildren can depend on.
By planning your gift today, you will help Trillium Health Partners continue to deliver world-class care. You don’t need to have everything figured out to start making an impact. There are many simple ways to make a legacy gift that suits your circumstances and reduce estate taxes.
That could include:
- A gift through a Will
- A gift of life insurance
- A gift registered investment funts
Already included a gift in your Will?
If you’ve already chosen to include Trillium Health Partners Foundation in your Will, thank you. Letting us know helps ensure we understand your wishes and can honour your generosity as you intended. Sharing this information is optional and does not change your Will.
Leaving a legacy to benefit Trillium Health Partners is a bold investment in a better, healthier tomorrow.
Learn More About Legacy Giving
or contact:
Samantha Barr
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