As we welcome another year at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, I am overwhelmed by the generosity and support you and others like you have provided. Through your kindness, we can support our patients and their loved ones with the quality of care they deserve.
As we learned to live with Covid-19, we were able to open our doors to the wider community and welcomed back patients, visitors and their loved ones. Your unwavering commitment has enabled us to grow Chris O’Brien’s vision of providing high-quality, patient-centred care through discovery and groundbreaking technology. Your support enabled our most recent purchase of our second minimally invasive da Vinci Xi surgical robot. This robot allows our patients to go home to their loved ones sooner.
With the continued support from community members like you, we have been able to stay at the forefront of comprehensive cancer care.
We ended last year with the opening of the Arto Hardy Family Biomedical Innovation Hub, which will play a key role in personalising cancer treatments. We will soon be launching our Integrated Prothetics and Reconstruction Lab. This lab will help create 3-D printed prosthetics. These excellent laboratories are working together to create bone replacements for our head and neck patients.
Your generosity has also allowed us to foster programs such as music therapy and provide resources like fashionable wigs that enable our patients to feel a sense of normalcy, empowerment, and hope, helping us fulfil our promise of offering holistic care to all those who walk through our doors.
Eileen Hannagan
Chief Executive Officer
