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Unity Health Toronto Newswire

May 2025

Hello, readers! May marks Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Awareness Month and Unity Health Toronto is at the forefront of treatment with Canada's largest MS clinic, the BARLO MS Centre. Our multidisciplinary teams work with patients and their families to tailor care to their individual needs. Read more about their inspiring work below.

BARLO MS Centre at St. Michael’s Hospital provides tailored care for patients with Multiple Sclerosis

BARLO MS Centre at St. Michael’s Hospital provides tailored care for patients with Multiple Sclerosis

At the BARLO MS Centre at St. Michael’s – one of the largest of its kind in North America and one of only seven adult centres in Ontario – a team of occupational therapists and a physiotherapist offer unique, patient focused and evidence-based programming for patients who would benefit from support and education to maintain their independence or manage physical function.

Buzzworthy

Unity Health Toronto’s tiniest patients receive top-notch care at two Neonatal Intensive Care Units. So do their moms.

Unity Health Toronto’s tiniest patients receive top-notch care at two Neonatal Intensive Care Units. So do their moms

Meet Stephanie Delisser, staff and patient in the BARLO MS Centre at St. Michael’s Hospital.

Meet Stephanie Delisser, staff and patient in the BARLO MS Centre at St. Michael’s Hospital

Innovation

A ‘mito-revolution’: U of T, Unity Health Toronto and UHN awarded $23.8M to co-lead mitochondrial transplant research

A ‘mito-revolution’: U of T, Unity Health Toronto and UHN awarded $23.8M to co-lead mitochondrial transplant research

St. Michael’s scientist found Ozempic improved  symptoms in people with artery disease and diabetes

New geriatric zone in the Emergency Department at St. Joseph’s Health Centre provides specialized care for seniors

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By the numbers

$3.8 Million

Unity Health Toronto researchers and scientists Dr. Jane Batt, Dr. Claudia dos Santos, Dr. Warren Lee, Dr. Joel Ray, Dr. Ron Wald and Dr. Jefferson Wilson were awarded more than $3.8 million CIHR funding to advance their impactful research projects.

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Niala Dookie activation assistant at Providence Healthcare. Niala has been at The Houses of Providence for 5 years.

Niala Dookie, activation assistant at Providence Healthcare. Niala has been at The Houses of Providence for 5 years.


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Patient perspective

A great place for the sick. A great place for healing and recovery. There is something graceful about this place.

Google review for Providence Healthcare

Quote of the day

Dr. Jiwon Oh. Medical Director of the BARLO MS Centre at St. Michael’s

Even a year of a delay in treatment can change how you’re doing five to 10 years down the road.

Dr. Jiwon Oh. Medical Director of the BARLO MS Centre at St. Michael’s, told The Globe and Mail on the huge strides researchers have made to better understand MS in the past 20 years.

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May 12-18 was National Nursing Week and we celebrated by asking six UHT nurses what advice they might have for aspiring nurses. 


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