50th Birthday Celebration for Kathy Koabel and fundraiser for Esophageal Cancer Research  at the Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre in memory of Cliff Koabel.

The event was held at the Chippawa Fire Hall on Saturday, January 21, 2012 and over 170 people attended.

Patients across the region now have access to the recently opened, Cardiac Arrhythmia Unit and Electrophysiology Lab at Hamilton General Hospital. The $7.5-million facility, which treats and diagnoses patients with life-threatening heart rhythm disorders, was made possible thanks, in part, to Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation and the numerous donors, corporations and community partners, who provided financial support for the project.

Bayshore Home Health is the newest partner to join Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation Care4 program.
 

Wesley Fudge enjoys the freedom of being able to wander throughout St. Peter’s Hospital without being confined to a patient room. He stays busy with visits from family, attending hospital events, and as a member of the St. Peter’s Therapeutic Recreation Services “Guy’s Club”, a social club for men who are patients at St. Peter’s Hospital.
 

In amongst the busyness of the holiday season, friends and supporters of Mac Kids took time to be involved with projects that raised funds and toys to help make the holidays brighter for patients at McMaster Children’s Hospital. The following groups represent a sampling of the tremendous generosity of groups, individuals and corporations from throughout our region. Their efforts combined with many other gracious supporters helped bring holiday cheer to the faces of the young patients at Mac Kids.

This past November, Chloë, a young patient at McMaster Children’s Hospital, discovered that hard work and determination really pay off. It was during a clinic appointment that seven-year-old Chloë and her family received the extraordinary news that, for the first time in her life, she was able to see out of both her eyes.
 

What makes this story amazing is that when Chloë was six-years-old, doctors discovered she had severe Amblyopia, a condition where her brain had not been exchanging signals with one of her eyes since birth. By the time it was detected, Chloë was functionally blind in her left eye. Too young to articulate that anything was wrong, she could barely even detect light and motion in her left eye.