Launching No Bounds. The future of kids’ health care.
Every day at the Stollery, children arrive with more complex conditions than ever before. They need advanced imaging. Specialized surgical teams. Breakthrough therapies. And they need it now.
That’s why the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation has launched No Bounds, to remove limits on what’s possible for children’s healthcare. No Bounds was created in response to a simple truth: children’s needs are growing, and so must we.
We are inviting supporters to come together behind a transformative vision: to raise $1 billion to reshape pediatric care today and tomorrow. This vision includes three commitments:
• Building a new, purpose-built, stand-alone Stollery Children’s Hospital.
• Advancing life-changing research and innovation.
• Investing in equipment, programs and people that give kids the best chance at a long and healthy life.
You can already see this ambition taking shape.
You see it in the life-changing care provided to children like Emmy, who is featured in this newsletter, and whose
care required extraordinary expertise from the Stollery team. After multiple orthopedic surgeries and three full-body casts, this inspiring young girl continues to defy the odds and brighten the world.
You can see it in operating rooms where technology is transforming surgical precision.
You see it in training and programs that expand what children and families can hope for.
It builds on what you have already made possible.
Your belief in the Stollery.
Your generosity.
Your choice to stand with children and families when it matters most.
No Bounds is not a slogan. It is a shared commitment — ambitious, achievable and powered by a community that refuses to accept limits when it comes to children’s lives.
Because when care has No Bounds, there is no limit to what comes next.
Emmy has always loved the spotlight. Give her a stage — or a living room — and she’ll sing and dance with fearless joy. It’s hard to imagine that all was once uncertain.
Born with spinal dysgenesis, a rare condition affecting the spine and spinal cord, Emmy has needed expert, coordinated care from the very beginning. At the Stollery Children’s Hospital, multiple teams worked together to monitor her growth and guide each decision.
In 2019, when her condition progressed, surgeons performed a spinal decompression. Days later, a rod failed and Emmy was rushed back for urgent repair. During that surgery, her team discovered her hips also required reconstruction to properly support her spine long term.
More surgeries followed. Months in a full-body cast. Long stretches of recovery — with her Dr. PatchUp bear by her side.
“For us, the Stollery means support,” her mom Jodi says. “We know when Emmy is there, her team is caring for her like they would their own children.”
Advanced imaging technology — funded by donors — helped guide precise, real-time decisions at every step. This is what No Bounds looks like: specialists working together, innovation that keeps pace with growing bodies and a community committed to doing more than “good enough.” Recovery has taken strength and time. Today, Emmy stands strong. She walks. She dances. She twirls.
As the 2026 Stollery Children’s Miracle Network Champion, she represents children whose futures are being rewritten through care without limits.Because when remove boundaries in pediatric health care, children don’t just recover.
Your generosity also supports:
Your Generous Gifts at Work
Over the past year, donors from across Western Canada stepped up once again.
Your generosity helped fund Criticool Temperature Management Systems for the David Schiff and Philip C. Etches NICUs. This specialized device carefully cools a newborn’s core body temperature for up to three days after a hypoxic ischemic injury at birth — a therapy proven to improve long-term brain outcomes. The system’s advanced controls prevent dangerous temperature fluctuations, while its family-friendly wrap design often allows babies to be held during treatment, supporting bonding and stability during a critical time.
• The Prismax System and Blood Warmer in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, providing continuous dialysis for critically ill children experiencing renal failure or fluid overload.
• The Trex HD Video EEG Monitoring System enables at-home brain monitoring, helping physicians diagnose epilepsy and pinpoint the areas of the brain involved, in Ambulatory Medicine and Neurology.
This is what donor-funded innovation looks like — precision tools that help Stollery teams deliver life-changing care, without limits.
Criticool Temperature Management System
For Cameron, Care Has No Bounds
Cameron loves sledge hockey, wheelchair basketball, video games and cheering for his favourite WWE superstars. Thanks to the experts at the Stollery, he can keep doing what he loves.
Cameron’s journey began the moment he entered the world. Born six weeks early, he needed to be resuscitated at birth and spent his first weeks in the NICU growing stronger.
By the time Cameron was just over a year old, he still wasn’t meeting key milestones.
Doctors at the Stollery discovered he had a tethered spinal cord (similar to spina bifida) where the spinal cord was attached to the base of his back. At 15 months old, he had surgery to release it. More challenges followed. At three, Cameron was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, and doctors believe another diagnosis may still come. Over the years he has spent more than 600 days at the Stollery receiving specialized care.
Stories like Cameron’s are why the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation launched No Bounds, a commitment to remove limits on what’s possible for children’s health.
“Without this amazing facility and the wonderful caregivers, our journey wouldn’t be what it is today,” says Cameron’s mom, Dana. “Simply put, we wouldn’t have our children here with us.”
Leaving a Legacy with No Bounds
Joseph Gunning describes himself as someone who gives what he can.
That belief was shaped early, as Joseph grew up in a family of 11 and learned generosity from his father, who immigrated from England. But it was Joseph’s own experience with the Stollery that turned gratitude into commitment.
Years ago, his daughter was struck by a vehicle and suffered a serious brain injury. Living in Peace River meant long drives to Edmonton, balancing farm work with worry and exhaustion. Through it all, one thing stayed with him.
“The care was the best I could ever imagine,” Joseph recalls. “It made me rest easier, knowing she was in good hands.” Years later, when his great-grandson faced complications at birth, the Stollery was there again, reinforcing a connection that now spans generations.
Joseph has supported the Stollery since 2009, increasing his monthly gifts over time. Recently, he asked himself where his savings could do the most good for the future. The answer was clear. He chose to include the Foundation in his will, becoming a member of the Great Bear Society.
Now 80, Joseph still rises early to tend his farm in Peace River. He lives modestly and with purpose, guided by steady values: work hard, give back, and look after those who need it most.
“Kids don’t ask to be sick,” he says. “They deserve all the support we can give them.”
Through his generosity — today and beyond — Joseph is helping make sure they receive it.
