‘Flying through the sky’: A family’s journey through death, new life
After her daughter, Zeynah, died, Maryam De Groef came across a drawing the nine-year-old girl had made, showing a rainbow and a smiling heart.
Dream Lottery kicks off with $1.4M London home up for grabs
The spring edition of the Dream Lottery kicked off Thursday, raising money for London’s hospital foundations.
Sunshine List: London hospital boss made $800K, near top of Ontario peers
London hospital boss Jackie Schleifer Taylor is the fourth-highest paid hospital executive in the province, the latest public sector salary disclosures show, and the only one outside of Toronto pulling in salary and benefits of more than $800,000 last year.
London hospitals working to provide more compassionate care to drug users
Hundreds of health care workers at London’s two big hospitals have been trained to deal more effectively with drug users amid a national overdose crisis, and the program will be rolled out to more than four times that number yet.
High-tech headsets opening London surgeons’ eyes: ‘Stunning’
London doctors are testing whether a high-tech headset can help surgeons at work, eliminating the need for big-screen clutter during minimally invasive spinal operations and other surgeries.
London hospital ER changes cut ambulance drop-off delays by 70%: Officials
The region’s largest hospital is changing how it handles incoming patients, including moving them to chairs in emergency rooms, an initiative that already has cut ambulance offload delays at its two ERs by nearly 70 per cent.
From London to Inuvik: LHSC ultrasound tech steps up to fill far north gap
A London ultrasound tech who travelled 4,000 kilometres to help patients in the far north is hoping her colleagues will step up and do the same, as the region’s largest hospital looks to repeat the partnership in the future.
At downtown housing for vulnerable homeless: 3 months in, ‘life-changing’ results
The first three months of new housing for the most vulnerable homeless Londoners have delivered “life-changing” results, the head of London Cares says. Visits to hospital emergency departments are down 74 per cent, the number of overdoses has dropped “dramatically” and five tenants say they’ve stopped working in the survival sex trade, executive director Anne […]
Homeless women receiving prenatal care at new London clinic
A new partnership between the region’s largest hospital and a front line health care agency is bringing prenatal care to the city’s homeless population, vital medical care previously out-of-reach for many of London’s most marginalized.
London Health Sciences Centre cheers city’s first newborn of 2024
Every New Year’s Day from now on, one London family won’t just be celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of another. It’ll be a birthday bash, too.