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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...

Tender loving care

As the founder and Medical Director of St. Joseph’s Transitional and Lifelong Care (TLC) program, physiatrist Dr. Caitlin Cassidy works closely with people who have conditions that begin in childhood like cerebral palsy, spina bifida and developmental disabilities. During her residency, Dr. Cassidy...

Centre stage

Fern McNab has lived most of her life gracing centre stage. She started performing at age 11. She made her television debut at 15 and by 16 had cut her first record. From Loretta Lynn to Whitney Houston – she covered some of the greats, performing across the North America and in the Caribbean for...

A family connection

St. Joseph’s has been a constant fixture in Lynne Cram’s life. Her earliest recollection of the hospital was a visit with her father to meet her new baby brother – just hours after he was born. Years later she would have her own three children at the hospital. In time, she started becoming more...

Their best shot

Breast cancer is a journey that affects 1 in 8 people in Canada every year. But new imaging equipment at St. Joseph’s is now able to detect hard-to-find tumours in breast tissue – giving patients their best shot at a good outcome. And these technologies are only possible through the generosity of...

Dr. Silverman and Parvathy PhD in the Laboratory

Project 'poop'

Lawson Research Institute scientist Seema Nair Parvathy, PhD, remembers watching in 2014 while a nurse filled a kitchen blender with a donated stool sample and saline and whirred it until “it looked like chocolate milk.” The mixture was later introduced by enema into patients who had Clostridioides...

Fereshteh Ghahremani stands at the podium

Pursuing excellence for patients

In 2022, Fereshteh Ghahremani left behind the familiar sights of Tehran to chase a dream across the globe. What she didn’t know then was that she wasn’t just embarking on a graduate degree in Canada—she was stepping into a research journey that would shape her future, and could change the lives of...

April’s Story: Recovery is a journey

My name is April, and I have bipolar disorder. I am also a recovering alcoholic. I would like to share a short version of my experience, including my strength and sense of hope that might help inspire others. This summer marks 29 years of sobriety for me and I am very proud of that. My friends and...

St. Joseph’s home team

It’s a phone call Ann and Bill Fleming never expected to receive. And the surprising news left them touched and humbled. On a rather cool afternoon in early April, St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation’s President & CEO, Michelle Campbell, called the Flemings with a special request: to recognize their...

Two care providers in their rock and roll t-shirts smile

Rocking out

For more than a decade, the sounds of live rock music have echoed through the summer air at St. Joseph’s Parkwood Institute—not from a nearby festival, but from the hospital’s own patio. From 2009 to 2019, patients, residents, families, staff and volunteers gathered to enjoy Rock the Parkwood—a full...