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Lives Transformed

Each and every day, the staff at Hamilton Health Sciences transforms the lives of patients and their families.

Read their courageous stories to learn more - and remember that it is through your donations that Hamilton Health Sciences can continue transforming lives.


January 27, 2011 started much the same as any other day for Denise, a senior tax compliance officer and mother of three.

Lawyer, Robert Dunford, is grateful to have made a full recovery following a potentially deadly brain aneurism.

When Shirley Rowe began having intense and unusual pain in her chest and right arm, she knew for sure it was her heart.

In the summer of 2007, Tom Los was enjoying an afternoon boating with friends on the Grand River near Cayuga when he fell from the front of the boat.

While on vacation in Northern Ontario, Hamilton resident Dave Zelinski had a stroke.

Dudley underwent a life-saving procedure to place a stent in his abdominal aorta. Today, he and his family support Hamilton General Hospital.

Dian fondly recalls the last words she heard before undergoing an eight-hour procedure to clip a life-threatening aneurysm in her brain.

Robert was 66 years old in September 2009 when he was told he had three completely blocked arteries.  Three months later, Robert underwent a quintuple bypass procedure at the General.