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Kendra Klages

Kendra Klages

Growing up, 18-year-old Kendra Klages from small-town Tara, Ontario, has always been told she’s just like her Uncle Duane. Smart, witty and kind-hearted, Kendra takes this as a big compliment

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Mary Anne Stapleton

First-Ever Legacy Gift to Women's Care Funds Ultrasound Equipment

Legacy gifts make a profound impact at our hospital. Fundraising priorities such as women’s care are now benefitting from these meaningful gifts, with the program recently receiving its first estate

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Orthopaedic Care Teaching Room

Donor-funded Orthopaedic Care Teaching Room Opens at University Hospital

Building on a long legacy of excellence, the orthopaedics team at LHSC has a vision to become a top international leader in training residents and surgical fellows, specialist nurses and occupational

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John MacFarlane, President & CEO, London Health Sciences Foundation, Archie Verspeeten, Ron Verspeeten, Mark Verspeeten

Reaching Goal Provides Boost to Innovative Cancer Research

Thanks to an outpouring of generosity from the community and $1.5 million from the Gerald C. Baines Foundation, the Gerald C. Baines Centre for Translational Research’s $3 million fundraising goal was

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Reta Ismail

CTV's Reta Ismail shares her story with London Health Sciences Foundation: I remember the moment my son Nero was born like it was yesterday. For the first time in my life, I felt my heart beating on

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Dream Lottery presentation cheques

Hospital supporters win Dream prizes

The top two winners of Dream Lottery in support of the regional hospitals in London were revealed this morning at the Millstone “Gallery” Dream Home in London. Selling out a month before the final

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Carol Regts

Carol Regts

Behind her smiling, bright-eyed, cheerful face is a disease that has deeply affected Carol Regts and her family – ovarian cancer. However with faith, a positive mindset and determination to live her

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A woman sits on the beach with arms open

Dream Lottery Sold Out!

The 2018 Spring Dream Home Lottery is now sold out! After the successful 2017 fall lottery, the Dream Lottery has now sold out twice in a row and for the 8th time in it's history. Although the dream

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Lenore Rawlings

In the past seven years, Lenore Rawlings has been through one life-threatening health scare after the other. In 2011, she and her husband George pulled over near their home in McGregor, Ontario, when