As a Palliative Care Unit volunteer at St. Michael’s Hospital, Rhea Kinghorn tries to make her visits with patients as meaningful as possible, by making them feel at ease and trying to instil a sense of peace. “We talk – ...

Norma Stenhouse was the ‘Grand Lady’ of Toronto’s Humber River Hospital (HRH). Often referred to as noble and elegant, she had an unwavering commitment to her hospital and an unselfish art for giving. But as the longest serving volunteer in the Hospital’s ...

  Women’s College Hospital has a captive audience of more than 750 high profile business and communty leaders schmoozing over lunch at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto. So what does Foundation president and CEO Sue Carruthers do? She turns out ...

Preventing delirium and functional decline in older patients are goals of the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) implemented this fall in the Acute Care of the Elderly Unit (ACE) at Victoria Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC). This unique program, which ...

Whether it’s jumping into frigid Lake Ontario on January 1, playing cards with a world poker champion, or racing down the street pushing hospital beds in full costume, the people who support Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS) are all about ...

We all know the friendly faces of hospital volunteers – they greet us in the lobby, direct us when we’re lost, and always have a helping hand available to push a wheelchair. But did you know that back in the early ...

It’s eight am at Kingston General Hospital (KGH) and 100 first-year resident physicians are taking their seats at staff orientation. While many of the young physicians may be anticipating hearing from senior health-care leaders at KGH, the first person to ...

By day, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre’s (RVH) Dr. Jim Delaney and Dr. Scott McKenzie are mild-mannered, scrub-wearing, scalpel-holding orthopedic surgeons and Dr. Paul Wilson spends long days treating patients in a very busy emergency department. But at night, Delaney puts ...

  Friendship, music and laughter are what bring people together at the Dual Diagnosis Centre at Providence Care, a vibrant and energetic activities room filled with costumes, games, arts and crafts, and comfy chairs. This is the home of a caring ...

Amanda hasn’t had what you call a “charmed life”.  It would be right of you to think she struggled, just based on her past.  She was born to a drug addicted mother, given up for adoption, sexually abused, was epileptic, ...