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Elm Tree, a home run by Jess Pennelli, used to charge $11 a day per patient for down to earth accommodation where nursing patients must mix with the mentally ill
Elm Tree, a home run by Jess Pennelli, used to charge $11 a day per patient for down to earth accommodation where nursing patients must mix with the mentally ill

Elm Tree, a home run by Jess Pennelli, used to charge $11 a day per patient for down to earth accommodation where nursing patients must mix with the mentally ill

Date8/2/1972
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0131985F
Better Medicine: Dr. John Doyle is using this NEC portable computer along with the Abbott Laboratories infusion pump to develop a better system of dispensing drug mixtures to seriously ill patients. The work combines his engineering degree with his traini
Better Medicine: Dr. John Doyle is using this NEC portable computer along with the Abbott Laboratories infusion pump to develop a better system of dispensing drug mixtures to seriously ill patients. The work combines his engineering degree with his traini
10/5/1988
Safety measure: Hospital identification band could include an invisible electro sensitive tape to keep track of those patients whose movement must be controlled, suggests reader J
Safety measure: Hospital identification band could include an invisible electro sensitive tape to keep track of those patients whose movement must be controlled, suggests reader J
7/20/1981
A Sarnia pediatrician convicted of sexually assaulting nurses and patients' mothers over a 16-year period has been ordered not to practise medicine for six months. And Dr. Kunwar Singh, 49, will lose his licence for a minimum 18 months if he's convicted of a similar charge within the next four years, a disciplinary hearing of the College of Physicians and Surgeons has ruled. [Incomplete]
A Sarnia pediatrician convicted of sexually assaulting nurses and patients' mothers over a 16-year period has been ordered not to practise medicine for six months. And Dr. Kunwar Singh, 49, will lose his licence for a minimum 18 months if he's convicted of a similar charge within the next four years, a disciplinary hearing of the College of Physicians and Surgeons has ruled. [Incomplete]
11/27/1991
Robert Stephens cosults with a patient in his office. During one weekend, Dr. Stephens talked by phone with 40 patients, was six in his office, visited eight at home and three in hospital, all at about a $3 hourly rate. Not rapacious for overtime work, he says.
Robert Stephens cosults with a patient in his office. During one weekend, Dr. Stephens talked by phone with 40 patients, was six in his office, visited eight at home and three in hospital, all at about a $3 hourly rate. Not rapacious for overtime work, he says.
1/16/1973
Doomed home: The director of the Armstrong Nursing Home fears that some of its 27 patients may die because they will be uprooted and moved to strange surroundings when the home closes
Doomed home: The director of the Armstrong Nursing Home fears that some of its 27 patients may die because they will be uprooted and moved to strange surroundings when the home closes
12/2/1981
Accommodation for 270 patients in hospital of latest design
Accommodation for 270 patients in hospital of latest design
12 February 1940
The biggest thing they need is some place where they can be doing something constructive, a halfway house, hardware store owner Jean Peacock says of the former patients who live near the Queen St
The biggest thing they need is some place where they can be doing something constructive, a halfway house, hardware store owner Jean Peacock says of the former patients who live near the Queen St
5/5/1975
Unflinching view: Edna Alford's clear-eyed fictional look at the patients in a nursing home is based on her own experiences as a practical nurse
Unflinching view: Edna Alford's clear-eyed fictional look at the patients in a nursing home is based on her own experiences as a practical nurse
8/21/1989
Mary Love, director of the Armstrong Nursing Home, is packing patients' belongings in preparation to move. Bolton, Ontario
Mary Love, director of the Armstrong Nursing Home, is packing patients' belongings in preparation to move. Bolton, Ontario
1/26/1982
Mary Love, director of the Armstrong Nursing Home, is packing patients' belongings in preparation to move. Bolton, Ontario
Mary Love, director of the Armstrong Nursing Home, is packing patients' belongings in preparation to move. Bolton, Ontario
1/26/1982
Tumor specialist: Dr. Rudy Falk, beside ba machine that helps destroy cancer cells with heat, treats 30 to 50 terminally ill patients day at his private clinic
Tumor specialist: Dr. Rudy Falk, beside ba machine that helps destroy cancer cells with heat, treats 30 to 50 terminally ill patients day at his private clinic
4/16/1990
Checking list: Dr. Klaus Schell (right), landlord of a Home for Special Care, helps resident Jack Price check off list of completed duties. Anna-May Maxwell (left), manager of the home, says families tend to hide their mentally ill.
Checking list: Dr. Klaus Schell (right), landlord of a Home for Special Care, helps resident Jack Price check off list of completed duties. Anna-May Maxwell (left), manager of the home, says families tend to hide their mentally ill.
1/13/1987