Proceeds from this year's radiothon will support the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital's point-of-care ultrasound program, including a new machine for the neonatal intensive care unit to help assess premature babies. (Image Credit: Submitted)

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Jim Pattison Children's Hospital

Radiothon raises $1.5M for bedside ultrasound at Saskatchewan children’s hospital

Nov 5, 2026 | 5:18 PM

The Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Radiothon raised more than $1.5 million to help care teams assess sick and injured children at the bedside and share ultrasound images with specialists across Saskatchewan.

The two-day fundraiser wrapped up Thursday around 5 p.m. after 37 radio stations across the province aired stories from children, families and health-care workers. Proceeds will support the hospital’s point-of-care ultrasound program, including a new machine for the neonatal intensive care unit to help assess premature babies.

Point-of-care ultrasound lets clinicians take images at a patient’s bedside. The hospital already uses it in neonatal and pediatric intensive care and in the pediatric emergency department.

Dr. Laurentiu Givelichian, a physician who works in neonatal and pediatric critical care and chairs the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation board, said it can be especially difficult to pinpoint what’s wrong when the patient is a baby.

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“The younger the child and the smaller the baby, the more challenging it is because the biggest difference, they cannot tell you what’s wrong with them, right?” he said.

The money will also pay for a central system to store ultrasound images. The foundation said it will allow critical care teams in different communities to review the same images and help specialists stay involved in a child’s care during transport.

“It’s very important to understand that the hospital is not a Saskatoon hospital, it’s a provincial hospital,” Givelichian said.

Donations can still be made online.

The fundraiser will also support a simulation system so critical care teams can practise using ultrasound on training mannequins of different sizes, from newborns to older children.

The radiothon was presented by CIBC Wood Gundy and included a matching gift up to $200,000 from the David and Karen Holst Family Foundation. Dallas and Sandy Howe are doubling the total match this year.

Donations can still be made online.

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Radiothon raises $1.5M for bedside ultrasound at Saskatchewan children’s hospital

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