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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...

Left to right: Sara Hewitt, Amanda Philip, Jillian Bylsma. Seated: Dr. Janet Pope.

Making tomorrow better than today

Dr. Janet Pope has been involved in research since her early days in medical school and has been advancing new knowledge and discovery at St. Joseph’s for a quarter of a century. And in the ever-challenging world of Canadian research funding, she’s incredibly thankful to those people who generously...

The power of positivity

“You're in hospital and you're alive, don't look at what you're missing. Look at what you've got,” Bud Polhill reminded himself and others during his stay at St. Joseph’s Health Care London’s Parkwood Institute. The 85-year-old's relentless optimism is remarkable in the face of the events that led...

Care provider poses with Mount Hope resident holding gift bag

Operation gift giving

A little kindness goes a long way. That was certainly true this past December for the people who make their home at St. Joseph’s Mount Hope Centre for Long Term Care. Thanks to the kindness of strangers making gifts through St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation, the care teams at Mount Hope had the...

Dr. Nadeau stands with her mother in their scrubs

Family values

Dr. Kara Nadeau represents the next generation of surgeons. As St. Joseph’s current Breast Surgical Oncology and Oncoplastic Surgery fellow, she’s learning new skills in the operating room, participating in leading-edge research and providing patient-centered care to people from across the region...

Cyclotron hits 10,000-bombardment milestone

Cyclotron staff at St. Joseph’s Health Care London have recorded a 10,000-mark milestone in the same understated way they work every day to improve patient care and cutting-edge research. No balloons, no streamers, no fanfare: Just an efficient note atop a printout as the bombardment number spun...

A little shop, a big impact

With the help of dedicated volunteers, St. Joseph’s gift shop and variety stores make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients and residents, one dollar at a time. St. Joseph’s gift shops and variety stores are convenient stops for essentials, snacks, drinks, or thoughtful gifts for a friend...

Creating connections

For Warren Lament, volunteering with St. Joseph’s Palliative Care and Veterans Care Programs was all about creating connections. Whether he was helping to adjust a patient’s television, playing a card game or chatting about sports or movies, he wanted to make each person’s care journey better...

Recognizing a pain pioneer

We almost take for granted the premise that individual pain experiences can limit patients’ recovery from injury, but just thirty years ago, perceptions of pain weren’t central to patient care. Many clinicians informally asked their patients about pain but there was no formal process for collecting...

Anchored in Trust

When Patti Hoddinott tried rock climbing with her husband, Terry, on a whim six years ago, it was love at first climb. But it’s a sport with an extra layer of difficulty for the couple. Terry is blind. Hoddinott, a dietitian at St. Joseph’s Health Care London, is Terry’s caller. Using a two-way...