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Mental Health Week 2020: Colour to Cope with COVID-19 Anxiety
Every May, people in Canadian communities, schools, workplaces and legislatures rally around Canadian Mental Health Association Mental Health Week. This year, we've teamed up with the Canadian Mental Health Association, Hamilton branch and the City of...
Celebrating Doctors' Day 2020
COVID-19 has presented physicians across our hospital with unprecedented challenges. This pandemic has also offered a complex and demanding opportunity to provide special care for COVID patients, to learn, to teach, to innovate and to study. We asked four...
St. Joe's Emergency Department training, learning, saving
St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) Emergency Physicians and members of the Hamilton Paramedic Service (HPS) conducted a successful simulation April 16. The simulation involved transferring a presumed COVID-19 “patient” in critical...
St. Joe’s Celebrates National Medical Laboratory Week
Medical laboratory professionals are a crucial part of any health care team. They work behind the scenes, processing clinical tests related to cancer, hepatitis, pre-natal care, HIV and other STIs, and so much more. The Hamilton Regional Laboratory...
St. Joseph's Healthcare virtual visits provide closer contact for dementia patients and their families
Written by Mike Pearson, Reporter, Hamilton Mountain News | Thursday, April 23, 2020 Ana Yurgan-Rotella hasn’t seen her father, Peter Jurgan, since March 14, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Peter has mild to moderate dementia and lives at...