The Voice of St. Paul’s Foundation

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Promise magazine provides updates and in-depth features on the innovative and world-leading care, research, and teaching happening at St. Paul’s Hospital and other Providence Health Care hospitals, long-term care homes, and care sites across British Columbia.

Joyce Shepherd, recreation therapist, Providence Living, and Dr. Jennifer Gibson, director of Quality, Practice, and Program Development, Providence Living, standing in the courtyard of The Views.

Building for the Future

There’s no place like home

Providence Living is helping seniors and older adults live their best lives in home-like residences that offer social connections, choice, independence, and dignity.

by Sondi Bruner

St. Paul’s Hospital staff: Tess Go, pre and post examination, Laura Burns, technical coordinator - special chemistry, Dr. Mari DeMarco, clinical chemist and the mind behind Alzheimer's biomakers, Gurjit Bubra, team lead - clinical chemistry and hematology, and Jennifer Clarke, technical coordinator - pre and post examination. Not pictured: Judi London, R&D coordinator - clinical chemistry and hematology

Building for the Future

A national leader in Alzheimer’s disease care

How a first-in-Canada testing program is transforming care and support for individuals and their families across the country.

by Leah Dyck and Sondi Bruner

Kim Wood, grateful patient living with cystic fibrosis who was part of the Trikafta drug trial and Dr. Bradley Quon, respirologist and clinician-scientist, St. Paul’s Hospital.

Building for the Future

Learning to breathe again

Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) at 16 months, Kim Wood never truly knew what it felt like to take a full breath. Thanks to a pioneering drug trial, she was able to reclaim life, love, and motherhood.

by Sondi Bruner