HEALTHCARE
Linamar recognizes a healthy community for employees and their families to live in is crucial to powering a better tomorrow for all. Therefore, healthcare is a key focus of our Powering Futures initiative.
Over the past number of years, Linamar has been involved with local healthcare centres to update facilities and invest in new equipment to improve patient services.
- In 2012 Linamar Corporation and the Hasenfratz Family donated $1.0 M (CAD) to the Guelph General Hospital Foundation. The foundation’s MRI and More campaign addressed three priorities, including purchasing an MRI Scanner, enhancing emergency room department care, and providing equipment for vascular surgery services. The foundation recognized the charitable contribution by naming the ER the Linamar Emergency Department.
- In 2018, MacDon, a Linamar Company, made a significant donation to the STARS air ambulance aircraft group which provides critical emergency urgent care transportation services to the public in Western Canada. STARS is located in Canada’s rural agricultural heartland within the prairies. MacDon is happy to support this vital service to the communities where the company’s dealers & customers live, work and farm.
- In 2019 Linamar, along with the Hasenfratz family, provided another donation to The Foundation of the Guelph General Hospital of $5 M (CAD), a record-breaking contribution in what the hospital’s CEO said, “Was a lasting legacy for the community.” The initial funding was set to be used towards new infant warmers in its labour and delivery rooms, as well as a new centralized cardiac monitoring system and enhancements to electronic health records. Other members of Linamar’s executive group personally contributed to both Guelph General and the St. Joseph’s Health Centre in the form of charitable donations.
- In 2021, Linamar partnered with Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health to coordinate a public vaccination clinic and publish a guide to launching a vaccination site for use by other organizations. This led to tremendous success and Linamar administered >57,000 vaccine doses in the community.
Our organizational culture, agility and manufacturing expertise has enabled us to rapidly respond to public needs during this COVID pandemic through expedited and complicated production launches. We are so proud of our team; their responsiveness, technical excellence, manufacturing flexibility and adaptability have made it possible to support our global communities.
