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  • Patient Care

    The life-changing impact of your support: a grateful welcome to 2025
  • Digestive Health

    How Dr. Carl Brown’s innovations are redefining colorectal surgery
  • (L-R) Frances Dowdeswell, whose late husband, Ian, was a patient at St. Paul’s Hospital’s Geriatrics Clinic; and Dr. Martha Spencer, division head of Geriatric Medicine at Providence Health Care.

    Patient Care

    New memory clinic helps older people experiencing early cognitive changes
  • Hamid Eshghi, president of the Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation carries on the philanthropic generosity of his beloved late uncle, Djavad Mowafaghian, with a transformative gift to the new St. Paul’s Hospital Clinical Support and Research Centre

    Building for the Future

    Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation’s $2.5 million donation to fund research and innovation at the new St. Paul’s Hospital
  • Photo of Trina Atchison, grateful patient living with cystic fibrosis, sitting outside of St. Paul's Hospital.

    Patient Care

    Advancing life-saving research – and cures
  • George and Santi smile in front of lights.

    Digestive Health

    Gratitude in action: outstanding care inspires donor George Pick to help others in need
  • Dammy stands, smiling, in front of trees with greenery.

    Research and Innovation

    Thriving with sickle cell disease: the power of supportive care and skilled expertise
  • Judi Wild-Hutter and her husband Lorne Hutter

    Seniors + Healthy Aging

    First-of-its-kind non-profit long-term care village launching in Comox
  • Patient journey mapping is key to our commitment to Indigenous Wellness and Reconciliation

    Indigenous Wellness + Reconciliation

    Truth telling through patient journey mapping – looking back to improve the path forward for Indigenous patients
  • Health care workers at the St. Paul's Hospital Road to Recovery Unit

    Mental Health + Substance Use

    What is Road to Recovery at St. Paul’s Hospital?
  • Image of Kardium atrial fibrillation procedure

    Heart

    Another “first and only” at St. Paul’s Hospital

Promise Magazine

The voice of St. Paul’s Foundation

On the Cover

Building for the Future
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.

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.

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Other Articles

  • Building for the Future
    A national leader in Alzheimer’s disease care
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    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
    Heartbeat of hope: A transplant triumph
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    (L-R): Dr. Mustafa Toma, cardiologist, St. Paul’s Hospital, Christine, grateful patient and heart transplant survivor, and Dr. Anson Cheung, cardiothoracic surgeon, St. Paul’s.
  • Mental Health and Substance Use
    Revolutionizing substance use care at Road to Recovery
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    Dr. Geneviève Kerkerian, addiction medicine specialist, Road to Recovery, St. Paul’s Hospital, Karen Scott, peer support worker, Road to Recovery, St. Paul’s, and Dr. Brittany Dennis, clinical epidemiologist, general internist, addiction medicine specialist at Road to Recovery, St. Paul’s.
  • Building for the Future
    Learning to breathe again
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    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
    No case too complex
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    Dr. Scott Apperley, respirologist, St. Paul’s Hospital, Karam Roberts, grateful patient living with vasculitis, and Dr. Jamil Bashir, cardiac surgeon, St. Paul’s and the head of Vancouver Coastal Cardiac Surgery and the UBC Division of Cardiac Surgery.
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As my son was being born, I had a rare, catastrophic complication. The team at St. Paul’s Hospital came together seamlessly: it was nothing short of miraculous. They didn’t just save me and Hunter. St. Paul’s saved our whole family.

Hazel, Joey, and sons Kaden & Hunter

628,626

Patients cared for.

50,000+

Surgeries performed at St. Paul’s and Mount St. Joseph Hospitals.

245

Clinical research trials funded.