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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...

Champions of all that sets St. Joseph’s apart

They fill very different roles yet all stand out to their colleagues as inspirational, passionate, transformative, ingenious, empowering and a champion of all that sets St. Joseph’s apart. These are just some of the descriptives of this year’s Sisters of St. Joseph Awards for Excellence recipients...

The Tangredi ties – “St. Joseph’s has always felt like home”

Noelle Tangredi’s family ties run deep at St. Joseph’s – nearly 70 years deep. With her mom, sister, two nieces and husband all with connections – “St. Joseph’s has always felt like home,” says Noelle, an E-learning developer now in her 35th year with the organization. It all started with Noelle’s...

The great great great granny connection

Not many people can say they share a workplace with their great great great grandmother. But Kendal Cushman can. Kendal, a personal support worker (PSW) at Mount Hope Centre for Long Term Care for the past 15 years “and counting”, was long preceded at St. Joseph’s by his triple G grandmother...

A family legacy in mental health care

A family legacy in mental health care The Pressey family is certainly St. Joseph’s proud. Four family members – three of them currently on staff – have made the organization the focus of their work and passion in mental health care. “I started working for Parkwood Hospital when it was governed by...

Lawson ranks in top ten of Canada’s research institutes

For the 12th year in a row, Lawson Health Research Institute has ranked top ten in the country for the 2022 edition of Canada’s Top 40 Research Hospitals List by Re$earch Infosource. Lawson, the research institute of London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) and St. Joseph’s Health Care London, has...

Do you pee when you cough?

Or maybe it happens when you sneeze or exercise? If you do, you may have urinary incontinence. This common and often embarrassing problem occurs more often than you would think, affecting one in four women middle aged and older. The severity of urinary incontinence can range from occasionally...

Chris Porter and Danny DePrest sitting on a couch together

Strengthening care for future generations

Family means everything to Danny and Chris. The siblings are among the youngest of 11 children in the DePrest family. They immigrated to Canada from Belgium in 1954 after family and friends boasted of ‘roads paved with gold and money everywhere’. The reality of what they found didn’t hold up to the...

A Tribute to Canada's Veterans

Last year St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation was unable to host its annual Tribute Dinner event due to the lingering impacts of COVID-19. Tribute is a marquee event that typically attracts a sold-out audience throughout its decades-long history. It also helps raise critical funds to advance patient...

three staff members wearing masks, holding the boxes containing the new bio masks

St. Joseph’s becomes first Ontario hospital to use planet-friendly masks

St. Joseph’s Health Care London (St. Joseph’s) is the first hospital in Ontario to switch to a medical mask that protects more than staff, physicians, patients and visitors. It’s also safe for the planet. The new green alternative mask is medical grade and certified while also biodegradable and...