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Walking Beside Families on Life’s Final Journey: Inside St. Joseph’s Palliative Care Program

For more than 25 years, St. Joseph’s Health Care London has walked alongside patients and families during what can be a very challenging time —end of life care. Since opening in 1999, the Palliative Care Unit (PCU) at Parkwood Institute has been a place of dignity and compassion for individuals across London and Middlesex living with life-limiting illness. St. Joseph’s Palliative Care Program provides pain management and relief of symptoms to those experiencing life-threatening, progressive or terminal illness. The PCU care team helps patients find comfort, supporting them body, mind and...

Celebrating 50 Years of Service: Dr. Munro’s Lifelong Commitment to Care

Since March 17, 1975, when he first began assisting fellow family physician Dr. Ross Lewis at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Dr. Munro has embodied the essence of compassionate, person-centered care that defines St. Joseph’s. Back then, St. Joseph’s Family Medical Program was located within the hospital and...

A Celebration of Healing

Sitting across from her surgeon at 35, Genevieve (Gen) Kroeker was facing a scary and personal choice – did she want breast reconstruction after her bilateral mastectomy? In the middle of breast cancer treatment, with little time to think about her choice, Gen’s surgeon, Dr. Sarah Knowles, posed a...

Culture, Community and Commitment

Donna Ladouceur is no stranger to the health care system. She spent 50 years dedicated to a career in nursing – first on the frontlines, caring for patients in clinical units and in the community, then in hospital-based research as a senior leader, before capping off her career as the Vice President...

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Tiny Homes, Big Impact

St. Joseph’s Health Care London (St. Joseph’s) is building on its legacy of caring for veterans. This time by working with Homes for Heroes to support veterans who find themselves without a home. In collaboration with the City of London and the Homes For Heroes Foundation (H4HF), St. Joseph’s has...

Closing the gap in gender-based violence care

St. Joseph’s Health Care London (St. Joseph’s) is breaking new ground in Canada with the creation of a specialized primary care clinic for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and other forms of trauma. The Trauma and Violence Specialized Primary Care Clinic, with a key focus on care for...

The Veteranomes band perform their debut performance at Parkwood Institute

Music can change the energy of a room and in the Veterans Care Program at St. Joseph’s Parkwood Institute, it’s helping veterans return to their roots. Music therapists Jill Kennedy and Emily McCarthy have spent years working alongside the veterans who call Parkwood Institute home. Over time, they...

A life lived alongside diabetes

When Kenneth Lampman talks about living with type 1 diabetes, he speaks with the calm certainty of someone who has managed the disease since childhood. Lampman, a patient at St. Joseph's Health Care London (St. Joseph's), has been living with type 1 diabetes for 73 years, but his experience with...

Dr. Lise Bondy and Clinical Manager Kelly Muhsin

Four Decades of Progress: How HIV care has transformed

When the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was first discovered in 1983, the diagnosis was devastating. There were no effective treatments and the care was palliative. “In the 80s, it was basically a death sentence,” recalls Dr. Lise Bondy, Infectious Disease Care Program physician at St. Joseph’s...

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Recognizing courage and change

It started with a song. The Veterans choir welcomed a room of donors, friends and fellow Veterans for St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation’s annual Hall of Heroes event. This special occasion honours the steadfast generosity of the community and the remarkable spirit of Canada’s Veterans. Since...