After sharing his rehabilitation story with a room full of Western University students, local filmmaker Jason Gray quoted post-apocalyptic television show, The Last of Us. “Paying attention to things; it’s how we show love.” The words struck a chord with fourth-year undergraduate student, Vaishnavii...

As a college student in the Philippines, Bryan Sanchez dreamed about working as a nurse in Canada. Today, he is fulfilling his dream working as a registered nurse in the Rehabilitation Program at Parkwood Institute. Thanks to the Supervised Practice Experience Partnership (SPEP) Program through the...

Paper crafts have always been important to Anne Granger. That passion became her saving grace when her husband Corrie died unexpectedly of an aortic dissection in 2017. “Scrapbooking and cardmaking is my healing, my therapy,” she shares. “I don’t know where I’d be if I didn’t have that.” In 2018...

A generous gift-in-kind donation of 500,000 nitrile gloves is making an impact on patient care across St. Joseph’s and will help to protect front line staff over the next several months. Since late September 2024, the gloves have made their way into the inventory across the organization. The unique...

With a list of burning questions in hand, Patricia Prance answered an incoming video call. On the other end of the line – a giraffe and his zookeeper. Prance has virtually visited not one but two giraffes thanks to St. Joseph's Health Care London's Palliative Care Unit at Parkwood Institute. Her...

It’s only fitting that some of the biggest breakthroughs in diabetes research continue to happen in London, Ontario – the birthplace of insulin. On October 31, 1920, Sir Frederick Banting woke up in the middle of the night with an idea that led to the discovery of insulin, from his home at the time...