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By merging world class care with research and artificial intelligence, St. Joseph’s Health Care London is catching falls before they happen. They wreak havoc on independence and well-being, making them one Canada’s most pressing health challenges: falls. A leading cause of injury-related...

St. Joseph’s advocated for funding for 12 new beds to provide crucial services for mental health care patients The new beds, sited at St. Joseph’s Parkwood Institute Finch Family Mental Health Care Building allows the organization's mental health care program to continue to offer crisis intervention...

Ann and her husband Peter got to know the care providers at the St. Joseph’s very well when their daughter Alice was admitted for inpatient mental health care. The care team kept the family well informed about her progress with constant updates. “They were fabulous,” Ann says. “They always took my calls and would say to me every time, ‘do not give up hope’.”

“I went down face first, denting my helmet. It felt like I fell into a cheese grater. My right arm was extended and I bounced off the deck and hit hard on my right side.” – Louis Martin It was a moment Louis Martin will never forget. While cycling in Elgin County on a downhill descent, he fell on an...

From international hero and serving as the inspiration behind a Hollywood movie to being the featured guest speaker at St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation’s largest fundraising event, Ambassador ‘Sully’ Sullenberger will take the stage at RBC Place London on Friday, October 20 for Tribute Dinner...

The 15th annual Breakfast of Champions was highlighted by Grenier's thought-provoking presentation about mental health in the workplace. After witnessing unspeakable atrocities in Rwanda during his service in the 1994 genocide and civil war, Grenier returned home a different person. He talked about...

For years, 58-year-old Mark Alfieri had missed all the signs of type 2 diabetes. The ones he did notice – numbness and pain in his hands and feet – he dismissed as part of a long-standing back injury. He also admits to abusing his body with less than stellar eating habits and an addiction to sugar...

An estimated 85,556 Canadians live with spinal cord injury (SCI), a number that the Praxis Institute for SCI predicts to rise to 121,000 by 2030. More than half of those SCI’s are caused by traumatic injuries. “Many of our patients have had their lives drastically changed, in an instant,” says Dr...