Our Focus
Ensuring Whistler is a role model for health care in a mountain resort community by helping Whistler residents and visitors have access to the best health care services in the Sea to Sky and surrounding communities.
Raise Awareness
We educate the community on Whistler health care needs and advocate for medical services, facilities and equipment in the Sea to Sky Corridor
Raise Funds
We strive to be the conduit for healthcare donation funding in Whistler by fundraising through events, campaigns and grants.
Current Projects
Whistler is already a role model for giving, so please continue your support of Health Care in Whistler and the Sea to Sky Corridor. With your support and the dedication of our board we WILL become a Role Model for Mountain Health Care.
Supporting Mental Health
The Whistler Health Care Foundation is committed to supporting local initiatives that provide improved access to mental health services in the Sea to Sky Corridor.
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Contact Us
Recently, we topped up the Whistler Community Services Society Fall Fundraising Campaign to help them reach their $75,000 goal to support mental health and wellness programs for our community.
We encourage any non-profit with a mental health related initiative to contact us for details on possible funding.
Dr Rob Burgess Primary Care Fund
We are pleased to announce the formation of the “Dr Rob Burgess Primary Care Fund”. Dr. Burgess was a pioneer of full service family practice in Whistler. He came to Whistler in 1978 to be the on-mountain doctor, and founded Whistler Medical Clinic, Whistler’s largest family practice, where he was family doctor to countless Whistler residents. We are honoured to be able to recognize his legacy.
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This fund will support primary care initiatives in the Sea to Sky corridor to ensure Rob’s vision of relationship-based, longitudinal care for everyone in Whistler lives on.
Whistler 360 Health Collaborative
Like many places across BC, many people in Whistler do not have a family doctor. In 2019 the Foundation began working with the Sea to Sky Division of Family Practice, local physicians, community members and representatives from local government to form a Primary Care Task Force, with the goal of finding ways to improve the state of primary medical care in the community. After reviewing other models being implemented across the province, the Task Force landed on the vision of a Primary Care Centre. Whistler 360 Health Collaborative Society, which was incorporated under the Societies Act in 2021, has been formed to help bring that vision to fruition.
The support from the community to the Dr. Rob Burgess Primary Care Fund has been outstanding and enabled us to issue a cheque to the Whistler 360 group for exciting improvements to Primary Care services in Whistler. We will continue to support Whistler360 as they move forward with their multi-step plans.
Supporting Medical Equipment and Services
We strive to assist our local community to meet a wide variety of health care needs. We work closely with our local health authority - Vancouver Coastal Health to fund necessary equipment at the Whistler Health Care Centre and to support the many other divisions of health care under their umbrella.
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The complexity of patients needs at the WHCC has grown a lot over the years and we are dedicated to ensuring that our amazing medical team has the equipment they need to continue to provide the highest level of care to our residents and guests.
The need for new equipment is ongoing and we want to remain prepared to meet this need. If you would like to support the purchase of new medical equipment please donate now.
