Allied Health Teams Help Patients and Clients put their Best Foot Forward

Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare's physiotherapy and occupational therapy teams hosted another successful Donate Your Kicks Campaign.

The importance of proper footwear is crucial to the rehabilitation journey of our patients and clients. Safe and secure shoes assist patients and clients with standing, transferring, and walking. A lack of proper footwear can significantly impede their ability to become more mobile. 

Over the month of May, with your help, our allied health teams collected over 150 pairs of new or gently used running shoes for patients and clients to use during their time at HDGH and to take with them when returning to the community.

Together, we are helping patients and clients put their best foot forward - one step at a time.

Wound Warriors: Preventing Pressure Injuries

Hospital Acquired Pressure Injuries are one of the most expensive adverse events in healthcare. It can have significant negative impacts on our patients, such as increased pain, decreased quality of life, they can take weeks, months or even years to heal and can sometimes lead to infection and even death.

It also impacts our staff as it can increase nursing care hours by 50% and can increase a patient's length of stay.

The cost of treating a single pressure injury can range from $26,800 to $231,000.

HDGH has invested in 16 frontline nurses to receive extra education and training on pressure injury prevention, assessment and intervention. These individuals are our HDGH Wound Warriors and are representatives from all of our CMC, Rehab, TNI and WMS units.

These Wound Warriors are scheduled each month on their respective units to complete a detailed Pressure Injury Prevalence study to ensure that we have identified all patients who are at risk or have a Pressure Injury to ensure that we have the proper treatments and interventions in place. This includes ensuring we have all our patients on the most appropriate bed surface, proper documentation within our Electronic Health Record and also have proper orders in place for all treatments including medical devices and equipment.

This amazing team is passionate, engaged and committed to making a difference for our patients here at HDGH.

Care Closer to Home

In our latest blog, Shannon Landry, VP of Clinical Services, Restorative Care, and Chief Nursing Executive shares the positive impact the newly opened HDGH Bob Probert Tecumseh Campus is already having in our community.

This campus offers cardiac rehab, outpatient therapy, and geriatric care — bringing essential services closer to home for patients and clients in Tecumseh and the surrounding area. It also stands as a lasting tribute to Bob Probert’s legacy. 

Diana Gabriele, HDGH Gambling Counselor Receives 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award

Join us in congratulating Diana Gabriele, Gambling Counselor with HDGH's Centre for Problem Gambling and Digital Dependency on her receiving an award from the University of Windsor's School of Social Work.

Diana was nominated and awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2025.

Read Diana's winning nomination here.

2025 MPT Clinical Instructor Nominee: Alexis Curtis, HDGH PT

Congratulations to Alexis Curtis, Registered Therapist, who was nominated for the 2025 MPT (Master of Physical Therapy) Clinical Instructor Award, Senior Clinical Placement 9183, at Western Health Sciences! For this award, students nominate an instructor who provided exceptional mentorship and a meaningful clinical placement experience.

“Alexis was warm and welcoming to those who were nervous about meeting expectations during placement. Specifically, Alexis went out of her way to provide further information and outlines to streamline assessment processes, encouraging forward thinking when progressing patents towards their discharge goals, while allowing for creative freedom with treatment within reason. Alexis would provide an outline for initial intake assessment for the hospital and explain the goals to complete, aiding in creating a more comfortable and streamlined approach that was much easier for me to understand. Alexis is kind, caring, professional, positive, and charismatic. Alexis tackles every day with a positive and professional manner, providing positivity in an area of practice that can be dark. Also, Alexis was exceptionally willing to quell any fears about future placements.”

- Student Nomination, Class of 2025

HDGH and its Foundation celebrate the official opening of the HDGH Bob Probert Tecumseh Campus

On the morning of June 5, 2025, a crowd of bikers, healthcare workers, and donors joined together to celebrate an exciting milestone in rehabilitative care for our region.

With a ribbon cutting celebration on the late NHL star’s birthday, the Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare Bob Probert Tecumseh Campus has officially opened.

The Bob Probert Tecumseh Campus will bring the high-quality, person-centred care that our community has come to know and expect from Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare (HDGH), closer to home for the residents of Tecumseh and Lakeshore.

Annual Charity Golf Tournament Returns to

Honour Community Leader While Supporting Local Cardiac Care

Community leaders, businesses, and supporters gathered on Monday, June 23, 2025, for Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare Foundation's annual FORE! Ever in our Hearts Charity Golf Tournament at the prestigious Beach Grove Golf & Country Club. The tournament raised funds for outpatient cardiac wellness programs at the recently opened HDGH Bob Probert Tecumseh Campus.

This year's tournament honoured the memory of Michael C. Rohrer, a beloved community servant and activist whose dedication to local service continues through this charitable initiative.