The Hotel Dieu Shaver Health & Rehabilitation Foundation (Hotel Dieu Shaver Foundation) is an independent foundation governed by a board of directors consisting of representatives from the Niagara community. The purpose of the Foundation is to raise and manage funds that purchase equipment used by the clinical staff of the Hotel Dieu Shaver Health & Rehabilitation Centre. While we as Canadians enjoy free hospital care the government does not provide funding for medical equipment used in those hospitals. Therefore it falls to the community to ensure the Foundation has the resources to purchase medical equipment on behalf of the many clinicians who treat the patients at the Hotel Dieu Shaver Health & Rehabilitation Centre. This year the Hotel Dieu Shaver Health & Rehabilitation Foundation has committed more than $600,000 towards the purchase of new and/or replacement medical equipment for the Hotel Dieu Shaver.