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Investing in healthy children and youth

Improving health care for young people is our best guarantee for the future. More than that, helping a sick child get better is an act of compassion and reward in itself.

Bell Canada's investment in health care for children and youth ranks among our highest priorities. During 2005 we sharpened our focus by committing more than $20 million to support innovative projects across Canada.

For instance, we are providing $10 million over 10 years toward a joint project of Montréal's McGill University Health Centre and the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal. They will use the funds to establish the Youth Telehealth Centre, bringing big-city medical expertise to even the smallest Québec communities. Also in Montréal, through an eight-year, $1 million partnership with Sainte-Justine Hospital, we are helping to develop an Internet-based remote homecare program. This will enhance follow-ups and quality of life for patients and their families throughout the province.

In Toronto, Bell's five-year, $10 million commitment to the Hospital for Sick Children is funding high priority needs in the emergency department, which treats more than 50,000 children and youth annually. The commitment includes $5 million in fundraising proceeds collected through the Annual Bell Celebrity Golf Tournament and the Annual Bell Celebrity Gala.

We also committed to:

• Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital, for breakthrough equipment to enhance paediatric brain surgery
• North Bay and District Hospital, for an Image Guided Sinus Surgery System that will enable remote surgery in outlying communities
• Alberta Children's Hospital for a telehealth videophone system to serve the Paediatric Palliative Care Team and Special Care Nursery
• Winnipeg Children's Hospital for minimally-invasive surgical equipment
• The Canadian Association of Paediatric Health Centres, to launch a national research initiative that will enhance care for kids with chronic illnesses or complex care needs
• Windsor Regional Hospital's Infant Hearing Screening Program and Audiology Services, including a new sound booth for testing pre-school kids.

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