LHSC News
Meet the Stroke Team
June 21, 2022 June is Stroke Awareness Month! One of the unique aspects of stroke care is the wide variety of staff and services involved in a patient’s stroke journey. Care provided by the multidisciplinary team helps to improve patient outcomes
Addressing Islamophobia: Honouring Our London Family
On June 6, 2022, Londoners came together to recognize the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack that took the lives of four members of the Afzaal family. At London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), we held a special event to honour Our London
June is Stroke Awareness Month
From left to right: Arielle Forbes, RN; Carley MacGregor, RN; Sydney Pastorek, RN; Sahadete Bela, PSW; Surinder Kaur, RN. June 2, 2022 TIME IS BRAIN! Stroke is a medical emergency and quick action is crucial. Providing timely access to stroke
Celebrating National Physiotherapy Month
May 24, 2022 Each May, National Physiotherapy Month is celebrated in appreciation for the contribution that highly skilled individuals within physiotherapy practice make across the country. This month, we are pleased to recognize and thank our more
Living with Cystic Fibrosis: Melissa's patient experience
May 24, 2022 Melissa Snowden was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) at eight weeks old. When she was born she was small – weighing around five lbs. Melissa explains that she wasn’t well after she was born. She couldn’t breastfeed because she was so
Celebrating Personal Support Worker Day
May 19, 2022 Today marks the annual Personal Support Worker (PSW) Day, which was formally declared by the Ontario government in 2010 to recognize the essential service PSWs provide in sustaining our health-care system and providing high-quality
Recognizing our Audiology team during Speech and Hearing Month
May 18, 2022 At LHSC, a number of our teams are involved in supporting various aspects of communication health, including our Audiology team. With May being Speech and Hearing Month, which aims to raise broad awareness about communication health, we
Recognizing our Speech-Language Pathology team during Speech and Hearing Month
May 18, 2022 May is Speech and Hearing Month, which aims to raise awareness about communication health. At LHSC, a number of our teams are involved in supporting various aspects of communication health, including our Speech-Language Pathology (SLP)
Living with Cystic Fibrosis: A CF patient experience story
May 16, 2022 John O’Donnell was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) at six months old in 1960. He has been a patient at London Health Sciences Centre’s (LHSC) CF Clinic for about 25 years. John has experienced a variety of CF treatments over the