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Colton and his mother

Brain injury education series inspires hope

Every year, about 160,000 people experience a brain injury in Canada with traumatic, even deadly, consequences. Across the country, 1.5 million Canadians are currently living with an acquired brain injury (ABI), according to Brain Injury Canada. Not only does an ABI affect the individual, but it...
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A lasting commitment to blood donation

Every year, St. Joseph’s Health Care London supports Canadian Blood Services as a participant in the Partners for Life program – a nationwide program that engages corporate companies and community organizations in donating blood. As a participant, St. Joseph’s sets an annual blood donation target...
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Members of the trailer park community on Lake Erie smile together on a bright sunny day

A splashing good time

St. Joseph’s Ivey Eye Institute is a place near and dear to Dave and Kathie Maxwell’s hearts. “It’s a place of miracles,” Dave says. The Maxwells have been seeing the eye care specialists at the Ivey Eye Institute since 1989. That long history and immense gratitude led them to come up with a fun...
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Savita Dhanvantari, PhD, in a white lab coat standing near a large window with a potted plant and a view of a building outside.

A family legacy

Right now, more than 5.8 million people in Canada are living with a type of diabetes – and the prevalence just keeps rising. But St. Joseph’s research teams are studying diabetes at the cellular level to build a better of understanding of the disease and advance care. This work is only possible...
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Shop local this fall with St. Joseph’s new vendor program

Local artisans and entrepreneurs are invited to sell their locally made goods within on-site stores located at St. Joseph’s Health Care London (St. Joseph’s) beginning this Fall. Our Volunteer Services Department is launching a new ‘Local Vendor Program’ designed to support community entrepreneurs...
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Hard 'at work'

St. Joseph’s psychiatrist Dr. Don Richardson couldn’t reconcile what he was seeing in the Parkwood Institute Operational Stress Injury (OSI) Clinic with what he had always understood to be true. “As psychiatrists, we always assumed that the longer you have PTSD, the less likely you are to respond to...
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Lori Keenan, SLP

Speech, hearing matter to St. Joseph’s patients and professionals

St. Joseph’s celebrates the life-changing work of speech-language pathologists and audiologists It’s the “little moments” of progress that spark Lori Keenan’s days as a speech-language pathologist. Now working at St. Joseph’s Parkwood Institute with people who have acquired brain injuries and spinal...
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Roy Butler standing

Imagination to innovation

At St. Joseph’s Health Care London (St. Joseph’s), we’re proud of our illustrious legacy of discovery and our culture of innovation. Every day, we work to transform imagination to innovation to impact. Now, we are building a future of even more “firsts,” more breakthroughs – and even greater patient...
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