12/12/2025
More than 50 members of the Gutkin family, hospital staff and foundation community gathered recently to honour the life of Mary Gutkin — a devoted nurse, wife, mother and grandmother whose kindness touched everyone she met.
Mary spent her final six months at Trillium Health Partners’ Mississauga Hospital, cared for by teams who supported her through dementia and delirium. For her husband, Dr. Cal Gutkin, experiencing the health care system as family — not physician — was impactful.
In the days after her passing, the family asked themselves what Mary would want. The answer: to help others.
The Gutkin family has now pledged $55,000 in her honour to support the new hospital, seniors and general medicine, palliative care, and emergency medicine — areas close to both Mary’s journey and Dr. Gutkin’s decades of service.
Two plaques bearing her name will keep her memory alive at Mississauga Hospital and Credit Valley Hospital.
Mary’s compassion lives in every patient who receives care. 💙🌿
🔗 Read Mary Gutkin’s full story and learn how you can support Trillium Health Partners: https://trilliumgiving.ca/stories/honouring-mary-a-familys-gratitude-and-a-legacy-of-compassion