Grosvenor Street Parking Garage renovations – A message for our community
St. Joseph’s is underway with an elevator replacement project at St. Joseph’s Hospital in the Grosvenor Street parking garage. As elevator renovations progress, we anticipate noise disruption to occur...
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Fecal transplants show promise in improving melanoma treatment
LONDON, ON – In a world-first clinical trial published in the journal Nature Medicine, a multi-centre study from Lawson Health Research Institute, the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal...
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Mount Hope celebrates BPSO pre-designation
Mount Hope Centre for Long Term care begins a three-year journey for designation as a Best Practice Spotlight Organization with the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. St. Joseph's Mount Hope Centre for Long Term care is committed to excellence through continuous quality improvement and...
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Your donation brightens lives in so many ways
The healing power of nature With mounting evidence of the benefits of plants to an individual’s physical and mental health, a beautiful living wall was installed at Mount Hope Centre for Long Term Care, thanks to donor support. The sustainable living wall features three panels full of plant life and...
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Acts of service
Inside Sylvia O’Connell’s (née Winstanley) closet at Parkwood Institute hangs her battle dress uniform from the Second World War. The jacket’s green wool and precise stitching have remained in pristine condition since she served in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps, stationed in England. It’s the...
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Standing up for mental health
At 15 years old, Alec Cook knew he couldn’t continue living with the status quo. He was struggling with gender dysphoria, unable to access the health services he needed. “There wasn’t much available to help me at the time and I sometimes felt like I wasn’t being heard by health providers,” he says...
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The right hand of a surgeon
Sitting around the kitchen table with her family, Dr. Ivanka Nebor heard about her parents’ lives as physicians in Ukraine. Their stories of science, of compassion, and of courage inspired her to go to medical school. They also led her to found INgenius, a non-governmental organization, and first of...
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Future vision
Dr. Narinder Paul calls it a game changer. A powerful new PET/CT scanner with the potential to personalize disease diagnosis and treatment for patients. “We’re the first in the country to have this PET/CT machine,” says Dr. Paul, Chair/Chief of Medical Imaging. “It offers the most sophisticated and...
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Running with purpose
Kim Spriet was diagnosed with Stargardt disease, an inherited form of macular degeneration, as a young adult. But it wasn’t until her late thirties that the progressive vision loss started to impact her daily life. “I started questioning, will I be able to travel? Will I see my kids get married...
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