The Importance of Healthcare Close to Home: Michelle’s Story
As a teacher at Anacortes High School and a mother of three girls, Michelle’s life was already full. But when abdominal pain started keeping Michelle
Funding Priorities
Area of Greatest Need
With a gift to the Greatest Need fund, you empower Island Health to respond quickly to your community’s most pressing healthcare needs. Donations to this unrestricted fund may support a new piece of equipment, training for frontline workers, age-appropriate books to promote early literacy in a primary care clinic, over-night lodging for a cancer patient or resources to help in a mental health crisis.
Supporting the Greatest Need fund means Island Health can meet needs that arise unexpectedly or may otherwise go unfulfilled.
A Life-Changing Injury Led to a Lifetime of Service
It was 1986. The neighbor’s dog, Dingo, kept John company as he drove the tractor around the property. John paused to check the tractor’s bucket.