Milton District Hospital's fundraising arm brought in more than $1,350,000 at its Gift of Health Gala in late October, the foundation says. The same night it announced what it calls a historic $500,000 endowment: a fund that is invested so its earnings can support the hospital year after year.
The gala money came from a fund-a-need appeal, where guests give toward a specific item, plus live and silent auctions, donations and matching gifts. It will go to the hospital's priority needs in emergency, surgical, inpatient, and maternal and newborn care.
That matters because the government does not pay for hospital equipment, the foundation says, so donors fill the gap. They have done it before: Halton Healthcare said in May that donors to the foundation fully paid for the da Vinci surgical robot now used in Milton's operating rooms, a machine surgeons control from a console to perform less invasive operations.
This year's gala, called The Golden Era and styled after the Roaring Twenties, drew more than 350 guests, among them community leaders, local businesses, health-care workers and donors. Mattamy Homes was the presenting sponsor, and Katie McMillan, the foundation's executive director, thanked the builder for its continued partnership.
The foundation raises money in other ways, too. This year's Tim Hortons Smile Cookie campaign raised more than $86,000 for equipment and patient care at the hospital, and the foundation's Community Partners, the businesses and groups that hold their own events for it, raised $420,000 for equipment and technology in 2025.
The foundation's Black & White PJ Party has raised more than $235,000 for the hospital since it began.
