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For decades, BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre has been at the forefront of caring for women and newborns. Still, genetic disorders remain one of the leading causes of infant mortality and are a large proportion of patients in the BC Women’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

State-of-the-art tools now exist to provide enhanced and personalized care for those with genetic conditions. With BC Women’s Hospital seeing the province’s highest-risk pregnancies and caring for its most fragile newborns, help is needed to upgrade and welcome in the next generation of precision medicine. You can take BC Women’s Hospital to the next level of excellence with genomics care and provide better outcomes throughout the lives of our most vulnerable infants in BC.

The Provincial Medical Genetics Program (PMGP), a provincial centre of excellence located at BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre, provides families with exceptional genomics-informed care.

Genomics care provides precise, patient-specific treatment plans for expectant mothers that can save a newborn’s life upon delivery; critically-ill infants in the NICU; babies born with a genetic cancer susceptibility syndrome; patients with genetic eye-disorders and more.

YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED TO ACTIVATE LIFE-SAVING ADVANCES IN PRECISION MEDICINE AND GENOMICS-INFORMED CARE.

PhenoTips | $1.1 Million

PhenoTips is a new state-of-the-art medical genetics software which will lead to faster and more accurate diagnoses, improved outcomes, and reduced healthcare costs.

RapidOmics | $300,000

RapidOmics is a fast and effective way to conduct genetic testing. This innovative testing would be the first in BC clinical laboratories and could improve and even save lives.

During this year’s Glow Gala presented by RBC, we are raising money to support this important work that impacts hundreds of lives in British Columbia each year.

CONNECT WITH US TODAY TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT THIS INCREDIBLE INITIATIVE.