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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...

Veterans explore the world from home

In his younger years, 95-year-old veteran John Kirkland traipsed the Bruce Trail, hiked the Rockies, paddled through Algonquin Park and sailed Canada’s east and west coasts. Unable to travel much these days, he believed Newfoundland would remain an unfulfilled wish on his list of cross-Canada...

FLOATing on air

As an Occupational and Physiotherapy Assistant at St. Joseph’s Parkwood Institute for 25 years, Dennis Argoso has seen countless patients with spinal cord injuries make incredible strides in their recovery. Today, patients aren’t just making strides – they’re floating forward. Thanks to generous...

The little things in life

Ron and Theresa Mikula have called London home for decades—and for just as long, they’ve been quietly giving back to the hospitals that care for this community. Their connection to St. Joseph’s Health Care London is personal, deep-rooted and ongoing. Theresa served as a member of St. Joseph’s Health...

Seeing the future of research

Bacteria don’t really sleep. And, on some nights, neither does Diksha Boora, an imaging researcher pursuing her PhD at Lawson Research Institute at St. Joseph’s Health Care London and the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University. Depending on exactly when an experiment started...

Exemplary leadership earns Ting-Yim Lee medical physics Gold Medal

Medical physicist Ting-Yim Lee still isn’t sure exactly what interviewers saw in him when they recruited him in 1988 to work in radiology research at St. Joseph’s Health Care London. But he’s honoured they saw and cultivated that kernel of possibility. Lee is now recognized as an innovative imaging...

Student innovators showcase work at London Health Research Day 2025

The region’s largest celebration of emerging researchers’ work, London Health Research Day featured oral and poster presentations from undergraduates, grad students, postgraduates and trainees. They shared their work with peers and globally renowned scientists in an array of specialized health and...

The Power of Nurses to Transform Health

National Nursing Week, May 6 to 12, is a time to recognize the essential role nurses play in health care. This year’s theme, “The Power of Nurses to Transform Health,” chosen by the Canadian Nurses Association, highlights the profound impact nurses have on patient and resident care, as well as the...

Rising and shining at the 2025 Breakfast of Champions

Amanda Lindhout never imagined that her journalism career would lead to her being kidnapped in Somalia in 2008. Or that one day she’d become a best-selling author and international icon for resilience in the face of trauma. Taking the stage at St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation's 2025 Breakfast of...

Speech, hearing matter to St. Joseph’s patients and professionals

St. Joseph’s celebrates the life-changing work of speech-language pathologists and audiologists It’s the “little moments” of progress that spark Lori Keenan’s days as a speech-language pathologist. Now working at St. Joseph’s Parkwood Institute with people who have acquired brain injuries and spinal...