Karen Taylor was well-known throughout The Ottawa Hospital as a highly skilled and passionate nurse who was dedicated to life-long learning. In 1997, after Karen succumbed to breast cancer, her family launched an annual golf tournament at Manderley on the Green to support the Karen Taylor Nursing Research Endowment Fund.

On August 5, 2007, the tournament celebrated its 10th anniversary and two nurses from the Emergency Department at the Civic Campus were awarded a Baccalaureate Bursary ($5,000) and a Master’s Bursary ($10,000) to continue their nursing studies.

Pictured here, Riek van den Berg, Corporate Coordinator, Nursing Education (left), and Karen’s sister, Janice McIntyre, RN, Recovery Room, announce the 10-year fundraising total of $280,000. Karen’s Fund is one of Canada’s largest nursing endowment funds.

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