This month's top stories at St. Joe's 
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Your donation will change lives
Help St. Joe's reach it’s United Way donation goal for 2016.
Donating to the United Way changes lives. Whether it’s helping a family escape poverty, supporting at-risk youth, or enabling a patient to lead a healthy life after they leave the hospital, your donation to the United Way builds a stronger community in Hamilton.

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The St. Joe’s 2016 United Way campaign will run from Tuesday, October 11 to Friday, November 11, 2016.

Whether you choose to make a one-time donation, or a standing payroll deduction, all you need to do is make one click to register your donation online at www.joinstjoes.ca/UnitedWay

Copyright, do you have it right?

Where do you get your images from? You need that one thing to complete your presentation, so you hop on the internet to find the perfect pic. But wait, does that comply with copyright law?

Library Services presents an info series on the proper use of images within the legal requirements of copyright law.

Read part one on copyright and Google images here.

A look back at Mental Illness Awareness Week:
Dr. Hasey & Renee speak with Bill Kelly

As part of Mental Illness Awareness Week, St. Joseph's Psychiatrist Dr. Gary Hasey joined Renee Williams to speak Live-on-air with Billy Kelly about mental illness, addiction, and stigma.

Renee's journey
Renee has been a patient of Dr. Hasey's for close to 10 years, and together they discuss Renee's journey, mental illness, and the impacts stigma has had along her journey.

Listen to the interview with Bill Kelly AM900CHML here.
Foundation
Announcing the Winners of the 2016 TD Grants in Nursing Skills and Education
On Tuesday, September 27, 2016, St. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation and TD Bank Financial Group were pleased to award the 2016 TD Grants in Nursing Skills and Education. The event celebrated professionalism and excellence in healthcare by awarding grants to 15 exemplary staff at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton.

Find out who this year's winners are here.
Research
Dr. James MacKillop currently serves as the Peter Boris Chair in Addictions Research and Director of the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton.

As an internationally-renowned addiction specialist, his research focuses on not only testing new treatments for addictions, but on using unique research environments that aim to bridge the laboratory environment with the real world.

Using cutting-edge science
Learn more about how Dr. MacKillop is striving to make the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research a state-of-the-art nexus for addiction research.
Employee Wellness
October ‘16 Employee Wellness Story
of the month

“Becoming involved with Employee Wellness at St. Joe’s has been such a gift! As a frontline spiritual care provider, my daily workload can be a veritable roller coaster ride of peaks and valleys. The work is equally exhilarating and stressful, so attending to my own self-care is a big priority."

Click here to learn more about the difference Mindfulness Meditation has made in Lucinda Landau's, RP, MDiv, DMin (Candidate), workday. 
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