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Looking at addiction in innovative ways wins Dr. James MacKillop the 2019 Royal-Mach-Gaensslen Prize for Mental Health Research
Research to understand all types of addiction – alcohol, cannabis, opioids, tobacco, gambling, and even food – using a rarely seen combination of diverse areas of science has garnered Dr. James MacKillop of McMaster University and St....
Heavy-Drinking Young Adults Reduce Problematic Alcohol Use Early in Pandemic, but Young Women Face Increased Mental Health Burden
A novel longitudinal study on heavy drinking in young adults and the psychological impacts of COVID-19 has revealed some unexpected findings that challenge preconceived notions regarding pandemic-related alcohol use. In a sample of nearly 500 young adults...
Community Treatment Order Program (CTO)
The CTO Program, with consent, provides people with serious mental illnesses and repeated hospitalizations living in Hamilton and the Local Health Integrated Network (LHIN)
Embracing mental illness
By: Samantha Mercanti, Mental Health Advocate & former St. Joe’s patient Samantha Mercanti has been sharing her experience living with and embracing her mental illness. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia in her early twenties, and also lives...
Hope, Health & Help for our Healthcare Workers
During Mental Health Week, we’d be remiss if we didn’t talk about the supports in place to care for our care teams in body, mind, and spirit. BODY: Physical activity has been shown to activate mood-boosting endorphins supporting...
Emergency Psychiatry Services
The Psychiatric Emergency Service (PES) at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) consists of the Emergency Psychiatry Team (EPT) and the Emergency Psychiatry Assessment Unit (EPAU). EPT and EPAU work together to provide compassionate care that respects the dignity and privacy of all persons receiving emergency psychiatric care.
Research grant to empower patients when it comes to their own health information
A lot of personal health information is collected through a 500-question survey when someone is admitted to an in-patient mental health bed. A St. Joe's psychologist says healthcare institutions need to give that information back to patients. "It's their...
COAST
COAST (Crisis Outreach and Support Team) is a program supported by St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton that provides emergency mental health and addiction services to members of the Hamilton community. As a leader in mental health and addiction COAST works with a multidisciplinary team, including child and youth crisis workers, mental health workers, social workers and police officers, to help individuals overcome mental health crises.
St. Joe's sponsored radio show "Wellness Wednesdays" with Ted Michaels receives award winning recognition
Wellness Wednesdays wins awards for Mental Health and Anti-Stigma awareness.
Our Stories
Explore the people and culture at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, a multi-site, regional, tertiary centre, renowned for its strength in respiratory care, kidney and urinary care, mental health and addictions, surgical services, cancer surgery and women’s and infants’ care.