Donations welcome The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care pays for all Access Centre services. With provincial funding, we re able to meet most of our patients health-care needs. But every day our staff encounter people with unmet health needs. That s why we ve created a charitable fund. A committee of the Access Centre s directors and members considers requests and allocates money from our charitable fund to those who need it most.
Allocations vary widely in nature and cost.
We ve used our charitable fund to install a stairlift to increase a disabled teenager s independence, to buy a special pair of shoes for a palliative-care patient who needed them to prevent the skin on his feet from tearing and to purchase an automatic door opener for a disabled patient. Making a donation is easy. You can write a cheque to the Access Centre. You can also have an In Memoriam card sent to a family on your behalf. The waiting list for admission to nursing homes continues to shrink in the Kingston region, thanks to a new system for managing admissions.