This series contains records pertaining to departments and services at St. Joseph's Hospital, London. These include the organization of departments in the hospital as well as records from various departments themselves. Departments and services represented include the dialysis programme, electromyography, the hospital archives and medical records, the clinical laboratory department, personnel, palliative care, pharmacy, pastoral care, purchasing, radiology, social service, speech therapy, intern training, volunteers, the Detoxification Centre, the Family Medical Centre, the auxiliary, design and planning, the Research Institute, parking facilities, shared services between St. Joseph's Health Centre and St. Mary's Hospital and Marian Villa, Merrymount Children's Centre, Department of Medicine, the Chapel of the Great Physician, Department of Psychiatry, and the medical library. Types of records include correspondence, charts, policies and guidelines, recommendations, reports, memoranda, surveys and questionnaires, pamphlets, histories, an invitation, articles, newspaper clippings, booklets, bulletins, requisition forms, invoices, contracts, cheques, receipts, telegram, schedules, lists, forms, newsletters, meeting minutes and agendas, invitations, programmes, a lease, reports, a resume, financial documents, speeches, annual reports, photographs, indentures, proposals, media releases, holiday cards, and a ledger book.
Correspondence, departmental organization chart, typed summaries of different departments and their objectives, policies.
First draft of the history of the department of medicine and correspondence about it's submission for the History of St. Joseph's Hospital. There is also a mounted photocopy of correspondence from R. W. Bruce Smith, inspector of prisons and public charities related to hospital returns, from 1905.
This newsletter includes notes from the Council primarily concerning the amalgamation of the congregations. It includes messages from Sisters, announcements for events pertinent to the community, and news about community work and engagements as well as about travel and international work. It also contains entries about Indigenous relations and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A few of the newsletters discuss the Occupy Movement, a series of protests on income disparity.