If you’ve ever experienced a serious illness or injury, then you know that in these challenging situations, all you desperately want is to recover: to feel like yourself again, to be able to do all the things you used to do with ease and to get back to spending your time with friends and family doing the things you love. In the rehabilitation program at Grand River Hospital’s Freeport Campus, music therapy makes a tremendous difference for patients working towards these goals on their road to recovery.

Grand River is grateful to the Optimist Club of Conestogo Winterbourne for their generous donation to mental health care in support of the people in our community who have struggled with mental illness. A contribution of $4,000 was made to lend support to child and adolescent mental health care.

Earlier this year, Grand River Hospital proudly became the first teaching community hospital in Canada to partner with Signal 1 to explore a clinic...