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How Will You Be Remembered?
Clare and Shirley Moster’s goal is to see Alzheimer’s disease done away with for good. Curing Alzheimer’s disease is a big ask, admits Clare, but he...
You shared stories that matter
2024 was a big year for St. Boniface Hospital Foundation’s social media channels! And thanks to you, we had so much to celebrate. The Foundation’s...
Volunteering Her Story
As a longtime St. Boniface Hospital volunteer, Joan Lachance never thought she would experience cardiac care at the Hospital as a patient. However,...
Seeing the Heart from Within
Dr. Clarence Khoo, Director of Arrhythmia Services in Cardiac Sciences at St. Boniface Hospital, with the Abbott ViewMate Ultrasound System that...
Funding the Future
From left: Researcher Dr. Thomas Netticadan, donors Frank and Jeanne Plett, and MSc student Sunita Karki, with undergraduate student Sandrius...
Nurses Belong Here
From left: St. B nurses Anjola Oyewo and Chelsea Nichols. June 16, 2025 With her first nursing job at St. Boniface Hospital, Chelsea Nichols found a...
Former Nurse Keeps Caring
“What would Dorothy do?” That was the question Teresa Wareham asked herself throughout her career as a registered nurse of more than 35 years at St....
Tiny Beginnings, Strong Tomorrows
Fourteen years ago, Delka Roberts became a mom. Though, it wasn’t the beginning that she expected. Her day started with a routine fetal assessment...
No Parent Alone
Becoming a parent is challenging enough. But when your baby arrives prematurely or with health challenges, it is even more overwhelming. Families in...
Catching Up with Paul Fontaine
April 1, 2025 Paul Fontaine, of Winnipeg, came close to death one week before his 33rd birthday. At the time his wife, Shay, was eight months...
A Close Call in Russell
March 13, 2025 The pain Anne Main felt that night was only discomfort, not agony. Imagine her shock when her cardiologist at St. Boniface Hospital...
Sounds of the Heart
March 03, 2025 Danny Carroll was lying in the back of an ambulance in August of 2018. He was having a heart attack at age 63. At that moment, he...
From Code Blue to Giving Back
At age 68, Hemant M. Shah experienced a cardiac arrest that nearly took his life. He spent 19 days at St. Boniface Hospital, seeing first-hand the...
A Window into the Heart
Photo courtesy of FUJIFILM Sonosite. February 12, 2025 Four new ultrasound machines that practitioners are calling “state-of-the-art technology” and...
The Beat Goes On, at Any Age
Heart disease is the number one killer of women in Canada. But St. Boniface Hospital researchers are working hard to change this. Before women go...