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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...

Parkwood Consortium Site Implementation Team: Anna Kras-Dupuis, Charlie Giurleo, Kristen Johnson, Neal McKinnon, Kristin Wanless, Nadia Andretta-Whelan, Nicole Elliott, Paulo Da Rosa, Dalton Wolfe, Saagar Walia, Stephanie Cornell and Lindsey Guilbault.

Celebrating Professional Excellence

St. Joseph’s Excellence in Professional Practice Awards honour nursing and allied health professionals who embody the organization’s Mission, Vision and Values through exceptional leadership and patient care. Nominated by their peers and leaders, this year’s recipients were celebrated at a ceremony...

St. Joseph’s leads innovative hernia repair using da Vinci Xi surgical robot

His fingertips flit across the controls with a careful, deliberate touch while his right foot lightly taps two pedals on the floor. Like an organist at his console, each movement is so practiced as to seem effortless. Surgeon Dr. Ahmad Elnahas agrees there are parallels between musicianship and...

Celebrating science and spirit

The 2025 Tribute Dinner was a vibrant celebration of curiosity, community spirit and the power of pushing boundaries. Nearly 1,000 guests gathered at RBC Place London on October 9 to hear from Timothy Caulfield, a health law expert, Canadian bestselling author and science communicator. The evening...

The right option at the right time

Fresh off a beach day in Grand Bend in summer of 2015, Lea Seguin suddenly felt pain in one of her breasts. Chalking it up to sand irritation from her day by the water, and with the pain going away with her menstrual cycle, Lea didn’t give it too much thought – until it returned the next month. When...

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...

A Lawson researcher reviewing brain scan images looking for possible ways of preventing, detecting and treating brain damage and disease.

Minding the mysteries of Alzheimer's Disease

To researchers, Alzheimer’s Disease is mystifying. It has no known cause – and no cure. But early detection can open the door to new hope. If someone knows that Alzheimer’s may be in their future, they could take part in clinical trials of new therapies to slow progression. And there are some...

Something smells good at Parkwood Institute

The hallways of the Finch Family Mental Health Care Building at Parkwood Institute have been smelling delicious —thanks to Let’s Get Cookin’, a hands-on program that is helping mental health inpatients learn practical cooking skills while also supporting their recovery journey. The five-week program...

Trudell employees posing for a photo on a grassy area in front of Trudell building

TMI Gives

Patient first is one of Trudell Medical International’s core values. And for the nearly 300 employees working at their London, Ontario head office, these values are more than just words on a page, they are ingrained in the culture of this local company. Publicly, there's no greater demonstration of...

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...