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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...

Your gifts are opening doors for a new generation of surgical leaders

Surgical fellowships help train the next generation of surgeons while enhancing patient care. These are just some of the ways donor support of surgical training is impacting care today. Inside the operating rooms at St. Joseph’s Hospital, surgeons perform medical miracles everyday. They use their...

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Your generosity wrote the next chapters in medical research

Donor support kick-started research studies across St. Joseph's that are improving care and changing lives - here in London and around the world. Customizing a Bold New Approach for Hand and Wrist Injuries Wearing a hand splint can help patients recover from an injury, surgery or manage pain. In the...

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Your gifts funded new equipment for even better health outcomes

Medical equipment and technology play a critical role in enabling our teams to provide exceptional care. These are just some of the ways you impacted patients and residents across St. Joseph’s. Enhancing Breast Cancer Screening for Early Diagnosis When patients come to St. Joseph’s Norton and...

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Your donation means better sight for thousands of people

Move over, surgical instruments – hammers and saws are bringing big changes to St. Joseph’s Ivey Eye Institute. Construction is now underway to expand the Retina Care Program to serve even more people; work only possible because of your support. Extreme Makeover: Ivey Eye Institute Edition We can’t...

Stroke survivor Roger Oatman standing with a cane

FAST and slow - the varying speeds of a stroke journey

Would you recognize the signs of a stroke in yourself or someone else? 49-year-old Londoner Michael Lees is grateful his wife can. Her knowledge and quick action most likely saved his life. In the middle of the night in January 2022, Michael woke up with a strange feeling, “I kept tossing and...

Shauna Graf holding a copy of a book called the Zero Suicide Implementation Kit, standing in front of the Mental Health Care Building at Parkwood Institute

Free community toolkit in suicide prevention generates hope

St. Joseph’s Health Care London was the first organization in Canada to implement the Zero Suicide program. Today, the initiative is spreading across the province. What started as a lofty goal to reduce suicides and attempted suicides within a health care setting is taking flight in communities...

Dr. Laura Lyons holding an infant on an examination table in her office

Exemplary physician, compassionate cheerleader

Dr. Laura Lyons at St. Joseph’s Family Medical and Dental Centre was one of seven physicians in the province named Regional Family Physician of the Year in 2021 by the Ontario College of Family Physicians. It’s an honour that celebrates the vital contributions family doctors make to their patients...

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Harnessing the power of paper towels

Paper towels are often thrown into the garbage after use, but where do they go, and what is the impact on the environment? This is a question Environmental Services (EVS) at St. Joseph’s Health Care London recently tackled and the team has now found a solution that is eliminating paper towels from...

Paul Garrett and his wife surrounded by his care team outside of Parkwood Institute

Partnering to improve care

It took less than 30 minutes for Brenda Martin’s life to change forever. It was early one morning in 2019 when Brenda’s husband Paul asked her to call 911, saying he could no longer feel his legs. After days of testing, Paul was diagnosed with acute onset transverse myelitis, a rare neuroimmune...