We’ve had a great year of sharing some incredible stories here on The Daily Scan. Thanks so much for being part of our community.
Here are our must-read stories of 2019, in case you missed any of them:
- Vancouver man was clinically dead for 52 minutes
- First in Canada pilot project provides take-away treatment to opioid overdose patients in Emergency
- Mick Jagger’s health issue highlights cardiac procedure born at St. Paul’s Hospital
- “Dementia village” model already inspiring care at Providence
- Wedding comes to Mount Saint Joseph Residence so senior can see son tie the knot
- St. Paul’s doctors and nurses put their medical skills to work volunteering in Guatemala
- Groundbreaking Alzheimer’s research could lead to earlier treatment
- New St. Paul’s Hospital is moving forward
- Nursing school in war time (and finding love at the roller rink)
- The ultimate gift of life: a baby after transplant
Some of the Guatemalan patients cared for by volunteer St. Paul’s Hospital doctors and nurses. 
Artist’s rendering of future dementia village 
Jean Rathbone (née Anderson) graduated from St. Paul’s Hospital’s School of Nursing in 1945. 
Ember, baby born to kidney transplant recipient Alissa Assu. 
Improved access to life-saving health care is on the way to downtown Vancouver with the approval of the new St. Paul’s Hospital. 
Grace van der Gugten, an assay development specialist in the clinical laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital, analyzing participant samples for Alzheimer’s disease biomarker testing as part of the IMPACT-AD study. 
St. Paul’s Hospital has received a $1-million gift to buy special equipment that saved the life of a clinically dead man in February. From left to right: Dr. Jamil Bashir, patient Chris Dawkins, paramedics Thomas Watson and Benjamin Johnson, dispatcher Anne-Marie Forrest are pictured at St. Paul’s Hospital. 
Suboxone is a brand name combination pill of two active ingredients – buprenorphine and naloxone – which can treat opioid addiction by stopping cravings and withdrawal symptoms.
We look forward to bringing you more great stories in 2020 highlighting our amazing people and patients, and all the incredible work that happens at our Providence sites each and every day of the year.
