An innovative new program that bridges hospital with home care has been found to reduce hospital length of stay and cut health care costs associated with treatment for patients with chronic diseases. Initially created by the St. Joseph's Health System,...

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Ready or not, cannabis is about to be legalized across Canada. If you’re wondering what the answer to our preparedness is, we all have work to do. The impact of legalization will be felt deeply and it will be a slow cumulative problem, according to...

  Raised in rural Ontario, Emma Saltmarche set aside her country comforts when she moved to Toronto in her early 20s.  It was during her schooling as an occupational therapist at McMaster University in 2009, when Emma decided Hamilton was where...

  It often takes a crisis for frontline staff to see people living with addiction and that’s a narrow representation of that person’s day-to-day life. To better understand it, researchers need the big picture. They need to know if there...

Over the last 127 years, many veterans chose St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton as a way to continue serving others. This post recognizes three of the people who helped build St. Joe's reputation for compassion and innovation.      Dr....