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Building Stronger - and Healthier - Communities TogetherGreat-West Life, London Life and Canada Life make contribution toward new surgical centreLeading Canadian insurer Great-West Life, together with its subsidiaries, London Life and Canada Life, has contributed $100,000 to St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton to help create the largest single-site surgical centre in South Central Ontario.
The contribution, made through The Key to Giving™, the national corporate citizenship program of Great-West Life, London Life and Canada Life – will help St. Joseph’s continue to serve the region as a leader in cancer surgery.
When complete, the surgical centre will be one of Canada's most technologically advanced, with 18 operating rooms, a pre-operative assessment area, recovery bays, and a day surgery centre. It will aid the Hospital by providing integrated and timely cancer care through advanced diagnostic imaging and cancer surgery. Read more...
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A St. Joe’s Baby Girl Gives BackTeresa Cascioli makes $1 million gift to St. Joe’s At 5:32 p.m. on Wednesday, November 1, 1961, Teresa Cascioli was born at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton…and on Wednesday, November 16, 2008 the “St. Joe’s Baby Girl” announced a $1 million gift to the place where her life began. Her donation will support the redevelopment of St. Joseph’s Surgical Centre including 18 new operating rooms equipped with the latest in tele-robotic and minimally invasive surgical technologies, a pre-operative assessment area, post-operative recovery bays, nursing stations and a day surgery centre. Knowing that St. Joe’s delivers 51% of the babies in Hamilton, and wielding her renowned marketing savvy, Teresa Cascioli also launched the St. Joe’s Baby Face Photo Wall. All St. Joe’s babies who make a gift to the Hospital can be recognized by having their photo, name and birth date placed on the “St. Joe’s Baby Face” Photo Wall. Teresa hopes to inspire another $1 million in donations from St. Joe’s babies who join her in saying thank you to the hospital where their lives began. Click here to make your online donation and join the St. Joe's Baby Face Photo Wall! Click here to view/download the St. Joe's Baby Face Photo Wall Brochure. |
Alec Murray Generously Donates Furniture and Art to St. Joseph's
Years ago, when Alec Murray was hospitalized at St. Joseph’s Hospital after an accident, he mentioned in passing to then Hospital CEO Sister Joan O’Sullivan that he missed reading his Globe and Mail newspaper. So, Sister Joan started dropping by in the morning, with the day’s Globe in hand. |
Dr. Rémi Quirion Receives 2008 Anne & Neil McArthur Award
St. Josephs’s Healthcare Hamilton and its Foundation are pleased to announce that Dr. Rémi Quirion has been named the recipient of the 2008 Anne & Neil McArthur Award. Each year, this award (established in 2000 through a generous gift from Anne & Neil McArthur) honours an internationally renowned researcher whose area of study is also a focus of research at St. Joseph’s.
Dr. Quirion is internationally renowned for his investigative work in neuroscience research at McGill University where he is a Professor of Psychiatry and Scientific Director for the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. He also serves as the Scientific Director of the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction, one of 13 virtual institutes of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Read more.
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