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Things Are Looking Up: The Mac Med Mural Project Promotes Healing Through Ceiling Tile Art Early last year, a group of McMaster medical students brought the Mac Med Mural Project to St. Joe’s. These students with creative skills that rival their medical know-how, created over 40 unique works of art…

St. Joe’s Nurse Wins $114,949 with Split the Pot Lottery Our most recent Split the Pot winner, Garima, is a registered nurse at the St. Joe’s West 5th Campus. Having only been working at the Hospital since November of last year, and missing the February Split the Pot campaign, this…

Run for Women raises $165,000 in support of Women’s Mental Health and Addictions Care at St. Joe’s This past Sunday, over 1,300 participants, donors, sponsors, store owners and associates came together for the Hamilton edition of the Shoppers Drug Mart® Run for Women! Together, you raised more than $165,000 to support…

Never Stop Running: A Run for Chris Returns A Run for Chris returns to Joe Sams Leisure Park on August 18th! Now in its third year, A Run for Chris is hosted in memory of Chris Owens, who touched the lives and hearts of so many in this community. To…

Rooted in research: New $5.1-million gift commemorates fifth anniversary of the Juravinski Research Institute On May 29, 2019, Charles and Margaret Juravinski forever altered the health-research landscape in Hamilton by establishing the Juravinski Research Institute (JRI) – a partnership between Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton…

Care Provider Profile:  Dr. Rahul Bansal Talks Bladder Cancer Care Dr. Rahul Bansal is a urologic surgeon at St. Joe’s and an associate professor of urology at McMaster University. Born and raised in northern India, Dr. Bansal’s path to urology started close to home since his grandfather was diagnosed with…

What to Expect at A Mental Health Morning:  Dr. Samra Zafar shares her thoughts on Mental Health through the Lens of Intersectionality After escaping a decade of abuse living as a child bride in Canada, best-selling author, DEI expert and psychiatrist, Dr. Samra Zafar, has become a beacon of hope…

Refreshed Birthing Rooms and a Renewed Special Care Nursery Give Our Smallest Patients the Best Start   When our baby care units needed a little bit of TLC, the St. Joe’s community came together. Through donations to our spring direct mail campaign and gifts made by local families, foundations, and…

St. Joe’s Shortens Wait Times for rTMS – A Treatment for Treatment-Resistant Depression  St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton is cutting wait times in half for an innovative new treatment for major depressive disorder thanks to funds raised at its Foundation’s gala. On November 2, 2023, donations from hundreds of gala guests…

“I Hope You Feel Something” – Youth Wellness Centre publishes first poetry anthology  “Hope Waits”  “Wild Mind”  “Non-Visible Ouchies”  “Things I Wish I Could Say”   These are just a few of the pieces you’ll find inside the Youth Wellness Centre’s (YWC) first poetry anthology, aptly titled, I Hope You…