For patients at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, every moment of challenge is a question of IF — IF I try one more time, IF I push a little further, IF I believe in what’s next.
That question of IF is what’s launching the Foundation toward an ambitious $25 million campaign, the Make If Possible campaign, poised to raise critical funds to advance rehabilitation healthcare in our province.
The campaign, which is anchored in fundraising efforts to rebuild the hospital’s therapeutic pool, will raise funds to support priority infrastructure, research and innovation, and patient care needs at the Glenrose.
In January 2026, the Government of Alberta announced an investment of $3.25 million toward the $6.5 million redevelopment of the hospital’s therapeutic pool, which was forced to close in November 2024 due to structural failure. While open, the facility provided essential treatment to Albertans of all ages and conditions through aqua therapy, serving over 6,000 patients annually.
The Foundation’s Courage Gala raised an additional $1.6 million, including a transformational $1 million naming gift for the aquatic facility from the Allard Foundation.
“The Make If Possible campaign is the Foundation’s largest public-facing fundraising effort of the last decade,” says Mark Korthuis, President & CEO of the Glenrose Hospital Foundation. “At the heart of this campaign is our community — the patients, healthcare workers, families, and donors who make our work possible and inspire our fundraising efforts. This campaign celebrates them, and what we can achieve when we collectively imagine and reimagine all of the ‘ifs’ that rehabilitation holds, and the possibilities they help bring to life.”
To build on this momentum, the Foundation is looking to its community of supporters and philanthropists to help close the gap on fundraising efforts for the pool, and even further, work toward reaching the $25 million fundraising goal.
For more information on the Make If Possible campaign, see here.
To learn more about the therapeutic pool and how you can support the rebuild, see here.
