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Healing Manitoba’s Broken Hearts
Ab Freig, of Winnipeg, has a long history with Manitoba’s Cardiac Centre of Excellence at St. Boniface Hospital. October 27, 2025 Life has given Ab Freig, of Winnipeg, several reasons to be discouraged. But that’s just not who he is. Freig experienced a Code Blue –...
The Saint-like Compassion of St. B
Joan and Gary Hutchinson have a 30-year connection to St. Boniface Hospital. September 16, 2025 Many people have said that St. Boniface Hospital offers a different level of care – more compassionate, caring, and kind. In Winnipeggers Gary and Joan Hutchinson’s...
Flying Close to the Edge
Henry Suarez woke up at St. Boniface Hospital. He had made it to Winnipeg by air ambulance service, which was already a miracle. Dr. Jonathan Hong, a surgeon with Cardiac Sciences at the Hospital, was standing over his bed in pre-op. “You know how you can tell when...
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, fate had other plans. Lachance, 61, of Winnipeg, started volunteering at St. B more than 10 years ago, after her mother...
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 at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre. By that afternoon, she was being transferred to St. Boniface Hospital because there...
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 pregnant with their second child. Fontaine was diagnosed in June of 2021 with complete heart block caused by a rare...
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 later told her having it checked out had saved her life. Main and her husband, Bob, ran a bed and breakfast near Russell,...
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 heard a voice. “Did you get this gentleman’s Manitoba Health Card number?” it asked. Then Carroll heard another voice in...
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 compassionate and gentle care you make possible. Shah was at home with his family in June of 2021, making plans to...
Keeping the Beat
November 18, 2024 The call came out of nowhere: “You’re in serious heart failure, Dean. You need to get to St. Boniface Hospital.” Dean Desrochers and his wife, Jenn, were in their Wolseley home getting ready to go to a surprise party for his friend’s 50th birthday...
Tiny Dancer
October 8, 2024 As a new parent, you expect to be able to hold and cuddle your baby. The instinct is written in all our hearts. Kelly and Corey Burtnyk, of Sage Creek in Winnipeg, felt it. But they had to wait three days before they could even pick up their only...
Your Support Keeps Innovation Beating
June 24, 2024 Your unwavering support fuels cutting-edge innovation and compassionate care within the Hospital’s walls. Albert McMurdie, of Winnipeg, felt that innovation and care firsthand when he made history by undergoing the first same-day transcatheter aortic...