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Hamilton General Hospital

237 Barton St E Hamilton, ON L8L 2X2

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Juravinski Cancer Centre

699 Concession Street Hamilton, ON L8V 5C2

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8:00 am - 6:00 pm
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Juravinski Hospital

711 Concession Street Hamilton, ON L8V 1C3

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McMaster Children’s Hospital

1200 Main St W Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5

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McMaster University Medical Centre

1200 Main St W Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5

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Regional Rehabilitation Centre

300 Wellington St N Hamilton, Ontario L8L 0A4

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Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre

325 Wellington St N Hamilton, ON L8L 0A4

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8:00 am - 5:30 pm
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8:00 am - 7:30 pm
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8:00 am - 7:30 pm
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St. Peter’s Hospital

88 Maplewood Avenue Hamilton, ON L8M 1W9

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West End Clinic/Urgent Care Centre

690 Main Street West Hamilton, ON L8S 1A4

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9:00 am - 9:00 pm
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West Lincoln Memorial Hospital

169 Main Street East Grimsby, Ontario L3M 1P3

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August 15, 2019 Stories

HHS researchers discover ‘silent’ strokes are common after surgery

Hamilton Health Sciences researchers have discovered that covert – or ‘silent’ – strokes are common in seniors after they have elective, non-cardiac surgery and are linked to cognitive decline. While an overt stroke causes obvious symptoms, such as weakness in one arm or speech problems that last more than a day, a covert stroke is...

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August 13, 2019 Updates

Supercrawl at Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre

Supercrawl is returning to Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre! Join us for a free evening of fun and games including musical performances, crafts, face painting and more. This is an accessible event for the whole family. Date: Friday, September 13th, 2019 Time: 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Location: Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre, 325 Wellington...

A recreation therapist stands in portrait
August 2, 2019 Our People

Introducing… a behavioural health recreation therapist

Jean Riley is a recreation therapist at St. Peter’s Hospital. She has worked at Hamilton Health Sciences for 25 years, most recently in the behavioural health unit caring for patients with dementia. What does a recreation therapist do? All therapeutic recreation programs take place with the goal of finding non-pharmaceutical ways of reducing responsive behaviour....

Esther McEvoy shows patient, Sandra Gmell, the shoulder joint on a skeleton
July 25, 2019 Stories

New program makes shoulder surgery more seamless

Staff in orthopedic surgery at Hamilton General Hospital are helping patients better prepare for surgery with a new educational program. It provides teaching and support for people undergoing shoulder joint replacement surgery. The goal is to equip them with knowledge and tools so they can prepare for discharge and recover at home smoothly. Time to...

Dr. Brian Leber and Dr. Irwin Walker pose for a photo next to an apheresis machine.
July 25, 2019 Stories

A legacy of lifesaving stem cell transplants

Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) has a long and accomplished history in providing stem cell transplants to blood cancer patients. As part of HHS, Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre (JHCC) is one of only three hospitals in Ontario providing all forms of adult stem cell transplants. One form of stem cell transplantation is referred to as...

July 22, 2019 Health Tips

Australia’s flu: What’s it have to do with you?

Dr. Jeff Pernica is an infectious disease specialist at Hamilton Health Sciences. There’s a lot of attention in the news right now about the flu season in Australia. Some are calling it the worst in years. Although this sounds scary, it’s important to understand what we can learn from Australia’s flu, and how we can...

July 17, 2019 Health Tips

Is your garden soil dangerous?

If you’re a green thumb, you’ve probably learned to cope with the creepy crawlers that live in your garden beds: worms, beetles, grubs. But what about the bugs you can’t see? Believe it or not, there are microscopic germs in our soil that can turn a day in the garden in to a trip to...

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July 2, 2019 Health Tips

Water safety for kids

Swimming can provide hours of summer fun for the family. However, drowning is a leading cause of injury-related death for Canadian children and happens quickly and silently. To protect your family, follow these pool and life jacket tips...

A boy in an orange shirt plays with bubbles
August 13, 2019 Updates

Supercrawl at Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre

Supercrawl is returning to Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre! Join us for a free evening of fun and games including musical performances, crafts, face painting and more. This is an accessible event for the whole family. Date: Friday, September 13th, 2019 Time: 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Location: Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre, 325 Wellington...

July 18, 2019 Updates

Hamilton Health Team invited to accelerate integrated, patient-centered care

Today the Hamilton Health Team was invited by the Ministry of Health to move forward immediately in the process and submit a full application to create an Ontario Health Team (OHT). The team’s initial submission was selected among a group of over 150 other applicants from communities across Ontario. While still early in the process,...

July 17, 2019 Updates

Our commitment to inclusion and diversity

By: Rob MacIsaac, president and CEO, Hamilton Health Sciences Serious concerns are being raised in our community right now about the impact of hate, discrimination and bullying aimed at two spirit and LGBTQ+ people. While we are a healing organization, not a political one, we are part of this community. Many of the people who...

August 15, 2019 Stories

HHS researchers discover ‘silent’ strokes are common after surgery

Hamilton Health Sciences researchers have discovered that covert – or ‘silent’ – strokes are common in seniors after they have elective, non-cardiac surgery and are linked to cognitive decline. While an overt stroke causes obvious symptoms, such as weakness in one arm or speech problems that last more than a day, a covert stroke is...

Esther McEvoy shows patient, Sandra Gmell, the shoulder joint on a skeleton
July 25, 2019 Stories

New program makes shoulder surgery more seamless

Staff in orthopedic surgery at Hamilton General Hospital are helping patients better prepare for surgery with a new educational program. It provides teaching and support for people undergoing shoulder joint replacement surgery. The goal is to equip them with knowledge and tools so they can prepare for discharge and recover at home smoothly. Time to...

Dr. Brian Leber and Dr. Irwin Walker pose for a photo next to an apheresis machine.
July 25, 2019 Stories

A legacy of lifesaving stem cell transplants

Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) has a long and accomplished history in providing stem cell transplants to blood cancer patients. As part of HHS, Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre (JHCC) is one of only three hospitals in Ontario providing all forms of adult stem cell transplants. One form of stem cell transplantation is referred to as...

A recreation therapist stands in portrait
August 2, 2019 Our People

Introducing… a behavioural health recreation therapist

Jean Riley is a recreation therapist at St. Peter’s Hospital. She has worked at Hamilton Health Sciences for 25 years, most recently in the behavioural health unit caring for patients with dementia. What does a recreation therapist do? All therapeutic recreation programs take place with the goal of finding non-pharmaceutical ways of reducing responsive behaviour....

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July 22, 2019 Our People

Introducing… a senior system administrator

When Jules Okoko came to Canada, he didn’t know anyone or have much money. Jules was a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo where he fled the Great African War at the turn of the century. After working in different jobs, mostly in labour, he went back to school to be a computer networking...

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July 14, 2019 Our People

Introducing… a surgical social worker

First days on the job can be a mixed bag of emotions. Some people arrive with a level of excitement only reserved for life’s major events. It’s not every day you start a new position, after all. Others may experience fear or nervousness. They don’t want to rock the boat or signal to their colleagues...

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Hamilton Health Sciences | @HamHealthSci - August 19
WATCH: @RobMacIsaac learns from three of our doctors about what our Child Advocacy and Assessment Program (CAAP) do… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Hamilton Health Sciences | @ResearchCda - August 19
In today's media digest: Researchers at @HamHealthSci and @WesternU find 'silent' #strokes common for #seniors afte… https://t.co/hpPlljvSee