The Mount Carmel Clinic Foundation, established in 1998, is a community fundraising organization that supports research, innovative programming and capital development in order to enhance and broaden the programs and services of Mount Carmel Clinic, Canada's first community based health clinic.

 

Mount Carmel Clinic has been a landmark in Winnipeg’s North End community since 1926, when it was established to meet the needs of Jewish immigrants.  The cultural make-up of the Point Douglas and North End communities has changed in the eight decades since then, but the clinic still helps vulnerable people get access to community healthcare.  In recent years, the Clinic’s services have expanded to provide comprehensive care to a population challenged by poverty and its related social and health problems.  A result of this expansion is that the Clinic’s physical space no longer meets client demand. 

 

Mount Carmel Clinic Foundation has undertaken a $5.5 M capital campaign to upgrade and expand Clinic facilities.  Three years ago, the neighbouring CIBC gifted its former bank building to the Clinic.  This gift provided the impetus Mount Carmel Clinic needed to develop a comprehensive expansion plan that included a complete retrofitting of the bank building, retrofitting the existing Clinic space, and providing much needed upgrades to the existing Anne Ross Day Nursery (ARDN) while making it fully accessible to mobility challenged children and parents.

 

We are confident that with the generous help of donors and supporters we will reach our fundraising goal.  Phase I of the project, the $1.3M retrofitting the former CIBC bank is now complete.  The new facility houses administrative offices and community outreach services.

 

Planning and fundraising are underway for the $1M renovation of and upgrades to the Anne Ross Day Nursery, where 45 inner city children receive hot nourishing meals, and quality care in a nurturing environment.  The ARDN provides an early intervention program to meet the health an education needs of preschool children living in the community, including children with special needs.    

 

Programs at the ARDN are premised in large part around the belief that providing children, particularly disadvantaged children, with healthy starts, while at the same time offering their parents the supports they need to find or continue education and employment, can truly change the demographics of a struggling neighbourhood.

 

The Jewish doctors who established the Clinic in 1926 did so out of a strong sense of responsibility and commitment to their community.  They had a vision that continues today.  In 2006-2007, there were more than 139,000 points of contact at the Clinic, including over 13,000 physician visits, 81,000 patient encounters with clinic nurses, 36,557 prescriptions filled, over 3,500 dental visits and over 1,200 cross cultural counseling sessions.

 

Mount Carmel Clinic’s mission is working together for a healthy community.   We are reaching out for support to help Mount Carmel Clinic with that mission as it undertakes this significant capital project. We rely on the generosity of those in our community at large who believe, as we do, that the programs and services of Mount Carmel Clinic can help change peoples’ lives.  

Donations can be made online or by cheque payable to Mount Carmel Clinic Foundation at  886 Main Street, Winnipeg MB R2W 5L4.  We accept VISA and MasterCard.  Please call 204.589.9424 for more information.

 

Foundation Board Members
Heidi Streu, Chair of the Board
Arnie Klymchuk, Vice Chair
Stephen Rosenfield, Treasurer & Financial Advisor
Francis Amara
Doug Fluker
Betty Anne Hershfield
Frank Lavitt
Andrea Piotrowski
Dee Dee Rizzo