Influencers in our community
Southern Health:
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Southern Health has a continuous journey to put people first by helping you to find the services you need, learning about your health care experience or by helping your community. Southern health helps rural communities to deliver a range of quality health care services. Southern Health serves 200,000 with a total of 6000 employees in this area. They also have a great cancer care program which not only helps you physically with cancer but helps you emotionally because it can be devastating to find out you have cancer.
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South Central Cancer Resource:
Instead of helping with treatments of cancer they help with financial support because going for cancer treatments in Winnipeg all the time can be very costly. They have multiple programs to help those that have cancer like the wig room, Transportation program and wellness programs. The coordinator of south-central resource is Debra Theisen. There are also many board members and they are still looking for more so if you want to learn more look up south central cancer resource and we have a video on our YouTube showing what they all do.
Instead of helping with treatments of cancer they help with financial support because going for cancer treatments in Winnipeg all the time can be very costly. They have multiple programs to help those that have cancer like the wig room, Transportation program and wellness programs. The coordinator of south-central resource is Debra Theisen. There are also many board members and they are still looking for more so if you want to learn more look up south central cancer resource and we have a video on our YouTube showing what they all do.
KAtie reimer
Created the Katie cares foundation to make a difference for other kids fighting cancer. She was diagnosed with cancer at age 13 in 2010 and passed away in 2012. She even still swam with the Winkler barracudas in 2011 despite under chemo treatment. Her braveness and strength and determination truly show how great she was. A child had been brought in and was in the next room. This child had been badly beaten. This opened Kate’s eyes because she had never seen or experienced this type of life. She quickly realized that no one was visiting this young child. Kate asked her mom to go down to the gift shop and purchase a teddy bear and give it to this child. Kate said, “every child deserves to have a teddy bear to hug when they are in hospital”. With the permission of the nursing staff this young child was given a teddy bear, and this was the start of Katie Cares. And ever since Katie cares has been thriving in Winkler at Katie’s cottage and so many are grateful for what she has done.