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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For the first time in Canada, a #HeartTransplant was completed using the TransMedics Organ Care System, often referred to as a "heart in a box," which kept a donor heart beating outside the body before it was transplanted into LHSC patient Raj Mittal. Read more: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/london-...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As a pharmacy manager at LHSC, Oliver Welner sees firsthand how donated blood helps patients every day. From surgeries & cancer treatments to managing chronic illnesses, blood transfusions are an essential part of care for many of our patients. Learn how you can help: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/lhsc-en...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks to the dedication and collaboration of Team LHSC, along with provincial funding from Ontario Health, three new Level 3 critical care beds in the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) are now operating at University Hospital. Read more: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/expandi...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

E-scooters seem to be everywhere nowadays, but emergency physicians at Children's Hospital at LHSC are seeing an alarming trend. More children and teens are getting seriously injured, and many of these crashes should never have happened in the first place. Read more: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/from-fu...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Earlier this year, Paige Hillman became the first paediatric patient in Ontario to undergo #scoliosis correction using the new Medtronic Mazor robotic spine platform at Children’s Hospital at LHSC, marking a major milestone in surgical innovation. Read more: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/childre...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We’re excited to share the recruitment process for our renewed Board of Directors has entered its next phase after receiving more than 90 applications from community members interested in volunteering. Read more about what’s next in the Board’s renewal process: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/strong-...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Tomorrow is the last day to apply! Take a seat that matters by joining LHSC’s Board of Directors and help shape the future of care in our region. Submit your application by July 31: www.lhsc.on.ca/about-lhsc/j...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

At LHSC, great people lead great care. We’re building a Board of Directors to help guide one of Canada’s largest hospitals into the future. Take a seat that matters and apply by July 31: www.lhsc.on.ca/about-lhsc/j...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Looking for an opportunity to support health care for patients and families across southwestern Ontario? LHSC is building a volunteer Board of Directors who will guide our hospital in providing excellent care, conducting groundbreaking research, and educating tomorrow’s health-care providers. /1

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

LHSC is thrilled to announce the appointment of Ron Sapsford as Chair of its renewed Board of Directors, effective October 1, 2026, marking an important milestone as the organization continues recruiting for its renewed Board throughout July. Read more: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/ron-sap...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Could this be your seat? If you’re interested in serving on LHSC's Board of Directors, consider joining us for a virtual information session to learn more. There are two options to choose from on Tuesday, July 14: one at 12 p.m. and one at 7 p.m. Learn more: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/interes...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Strong decisions start with diverse perspectives. We’re building a volunteer Board of Directors that reflects the communities we serve. Your experience and voice can help shape the future of care at LHSC. Take a seat that matters and apply by July 31: www.lhsc.on.ca/about-lhsc/j...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

You’ve probably heard about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) before, but what does it really mean? What are the causes and who’s at risk? Read the expert Q&A with Dr. Ruth Lanius, Scientist at @lhscri.bsky.social and Psychiatrist at LHSC: www.lhscri.ca/news/ask-the... #PTSDAwarenessDay

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Past. Present. Progress. As LHSC releases its 2025/2026 Annual Report, we’re reflecting on an important year shaped by the people, work, and progress moving us forward. Explore the key moments and milestones, and see how progress is taking shape at LHSC: www.lhsc.on.ca/doc/annual_r...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Take a seat that matters by joining London Health Sciences Centre’s Board of Directors and help shape the future of care in our region. /1

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Every seat tells a story. Find your place in what’s next at LHSC. We’re excited to share a special announcement with the community on Wednesday. Tune into our Community Update Meeting on June 17 at noon with LHSC Supervisor David Musyj to hear more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpv-...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Have you heard about vitamin K shots for newborns? It’s become a hot topic as medical misinformation spreads online. 👀 Dr. Harrison Banner, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist at LHSC, answers questions and explains why it’s safe and recommended. Read the expert Q&A: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/ask-the...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

For young patients facing cancer, navigating the future during this unique stage of life is an important part of care that extends beyond treatment. That’s why LHSC launched the Adolescent & Young Adult Oncology Program one year ago. Read more: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/a-year-... @pogo4kids.bsky.social

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Tune in to our Community Update Meeting on Wednesday! We’ll be discussing smoking cessation supports, Transfusion Medicine, the compassionate care offered through LHSC’s Wig & Turban Boutique, LHSC’s Nursing Recognition Awards, and more. Join the livestream at noon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy1u...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Tune in to our Community Update Meeting on Wednesday! We’ll be sharing updates on Patient Food Services, LHSC’s Addiction Medicine Consult Service, the Southwest Ontario Regional Base Hospital Program, and much more. Join the livestream at noon: www.youtube.com/live/CpUg_6L...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

At LHSC, we’re incredibly proud to be part of the special moments our patients experience every day as babies come into the world. In 2025, we welcomed a record-breaking 6,636 babies, and this video celebrates those first precious moments that mean so much. Read more: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/lhsc-co...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Tune in to our Community Update Meeting on March 18! We’ll be discussing MyCarePortal, a web-based tool that allows patients to view their medical information, and more. Join the livestream at noon: www.youtube.com/live/CpUg_6L...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We’re proud to share that an exceptional neurosurgery team at LHSC was the first in the world to use the new Hyperfine Swoop Brain Portable MRI system during surgery to remove a pituitary tumor from a highly complex area of LHSC patient Dave Evans’ brain. Learn more: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/novel-u...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

As we cheered on Canada’s figure skating team at the #Olympics, we were also proud to support Dr. Tatiana Jevremovic, a physician at LHSC & Western University’s Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic, who helped keep the team healthy & ready to perform. Learn more: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/from-lo...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

For the second year in a row, LHSC has proudly won the Canadian Blood Services Hospital Challenge! Thank you to everyone who rolled up their sleeves to support our patients. Every day, new donors are needed to meet the growing demand for blood. Learn how you can help: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/lhsc-wi...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Tune in to our Community Update Meeting on Wednesday, February 18! We’ll be discussing Black History Month and the important role of LHSC’s Black Health Navigator, respiratory illnesses, where to go when you need care, and much more. Join the livestream at noon: www.youtube.com/live/CpUg_6L...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, it's inspiring to see women like Frederikke Larsen, postdoctoral associate, making their mark in science at @lhscri.bsky.social. From early curiosity in high school to studying cancer cells at LHSCRI, discover Frederikke’s journey below.

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This research funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) supports work at @lhscri.bsky.social that could improve care across our region and around the world. Congratulations to the CIHR Project Grant funding recipients! Learn more from LHSCRI below.

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Every Tuesday, LHSC volunteer Alan Salmoni visits patients in the Orthopaedic Surgery Inpatient Unit, taking time to connect, share companionship, and ease moments of isolation. See how volunteers like Alan make a difference with LHSC’s Patient Visiting Program: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/its-so-...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

LHSC is proud to participate in Ontario’s Delirium Awareness Flag Campaign. Together, we’re raising awareness about this serious condition, improving prevention, and focusing on early intervention. Learn how we help protect at-risk patients: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/making-...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, we’re proud to spotlight the Indigenous Cancer Care team at the South West Regional Cancer Program for bringing screening, education and culturally safe care into Indigenous communities. Learn more: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/advanci...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Thanks to the expertise of LHSC’s cardiac surgery team, Angela received a world-first, lifesaving dual procedure that rebuilt most of her aorta in a single operation. Learn how this innovative surgery is offering new hope to patients with complex aortic disease: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/lhsc-fi...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Join us on Wednesday, January 21 for our next Community Update Meeting! We’re discussing respiratory illnesses, preparing for hip and knee replacements, how patients can get involved in clinical trials, and much more. Tune into the livestream on Wednesday at noon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xFW...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

As an intensive care physician in the Paediatric Critical Care Unit at Children’s Hospital, Dr. Rishi Ganesan witnesses firsthand the impact of how critical illness and long hospitalizations affect the brain of young patients. Learn how his research is shaping care from @lhscri.bsky.social below.

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Last month’s Community Update Meeting was a great way to connect & share updates before the holidays. Our next meeting is coming up on Jan. 21. If you have questions about LHSC programs/services you’d like our team to answer, we encourage you to submit them using this online form: shorturl.at/9BAEt

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

As we kick off 2026, we’re celebrating Dr. Beary Goode, who was recognized for hugging & waving his way into the hearts of countless patients & families at Children’s Hospital for over 20 years. Know someone who made a difference in your care? Recognize them today: www.lhsc.on.ca/patients-vis...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

DYK that iron lungs remained in use through the 1960s to help people with polio breathe? Around the same time, equipment continued to advance and respiratory therapy began to take shape as a new field. Discover the roots of this profession and its early days at LHSC: www.lhsc.on.ca/150/moment/h...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

In case you missed it, we’re coming to the end of our 150th year, a milestone shaped by generations of care and compassion. Through every season, we’ve stood together to support one another and advance medicine. As we look ahead to the year to come, we’re grateful to continue this journey with you.

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

What an inspiring day at the Business Cares Food Drive wrap-up event! LHSC proudly joined about 300 organizations across London & area for the 26th annual campaign. Thanks to the generosity of our team, we donated more than 1,200lbs of non-perishable food in support of @londonfoodbank.bsky.social.

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Tune in on Dec 17 for our Community Update Meeting. We're discussing the respiratory season, tips for staying safe over the holidays, sickle cell disease & more. We’ll even hear from our beary-good friends at Children’s Health Foundation! Livestream starts at 12pm: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcBQ...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

From all of us at LHSC, happy holidays! This year, we reflect on the people and moments that have shaped LHSC over the past 150 years. Across generations, through times of change, challenge, and progress, we’ve stood together through every season to care for each other and advance medicine.

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Last month’s virtual Community Update Meeting was a success! We loved connecting and sharing updates with many of you. If you couldn’t tune in, you can still watch the November 19 recording and read the monthly report here: www.lhsc.on.ca/about-lhsc/c...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

George Westerik has become the first patient at LHSC to receive an innovative radiation treatment for his heart condition, ventricular tachycardia. LHSC is one of only a few hospitals in Canada to offer this treatment & begin important research. @westernu.ca www.lhsc.on.ca/news/lhsc-on...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The future of radiation therapy is now thanks to the installation of the Ethos Linear Accelerator (LINAC) at LHSC’s Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre. Read how the Ethos LINAC is providing next level care for cancer patients in southwestern Ontario: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/the-fut...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Jahmari was diagnosed with sickle cell disease at birth. After years of pain, he received a stem cell transplant as treatment for his sickle cell disease at LHSC — the hospital’s first adult patient to do so in nearly 20 years. Now, he’s now doing better than ever: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/adult-p...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

We’re just days away from this month’s Community Update Meeting happening November 19 at noon. Tune in to hear the latest hospital updates via livestream: www.youtube.com/live/1z77CkV...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Last month’s virtual Community Update Meeting was a great opportunity to connect and share updates with many of you! Couldn’t tune in? No problem. You can watch the October 15 meeting and read the monthly report here: www.lhsc.on.ca/about-lhsc/c...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We’re proud to share that LHSC’s Clinical Research Library has been recognized with the @medlibassn.bsky.social’s 2025 Research Advancement in Health Sciences Librarianship Award! Learn more: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/lhscs-c...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Some assume that spiritual care is only for patients who are religious. In reality, spiritual care at LHSC isn't connected to a specific religion or denomination. Spiritual care practitioners offer support that respects each patient’s own values and beliefs. More: www.lhsc.on.ca/news/truths-...

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London Health Sciences Centre @lhsccanada.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

What a year it’s been! 👏🎉 Take a look back at how @lhscri.bsky.social has continued to drive forward medical breakthroughs that are making a difference in the lives of patients and their families around the world.

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