January 6, 2010
COMMUNITY CALENDAR & PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT Across Niagara, hospital programs and services are changing. Drop by an information open house Jan. 18 to learn more and speak to Niagara Health System leaders about …current and future programs at Welland Site; emergency and urgent care services; hospital improvement plan; construction update on new healthcare complex and [...]
December 3, 2009
The news media is invited to join the City of Port Colborne and Niagara Health System as we welcome Dr. Haibo Xu and staff as the newest Family Health Organization in Port Colborne. Elected officials, area physicians and hospital leaders will be in attendance. Dr. Xu will be seeing patients at Niagara Health’s Port Colborne [...]
December 2, 2009
Niagara, ON: Niagara Health System (NHS) is beginning the process today to close 39 Complex Continuing Care (CCC) beds next year as part of the Hospital Improvement Plan (HIP). With the changes occurring in healthcare, including the focus on aging at home strategies, home care enhancements and community-based services, the length of stay for CCC [...]
November 16, 2009
Across Niagara, hospital programs and services are changing. Drop by an information open house in our Lake Erie communities to learn more and speak to Niagara Health System leaders about … current and future programs at Port Colborne and Douglas Memorial sites; emergency and urgent care services; hospital improvement plan; construction update on new healthcare [...]
October 21, 2009
Across Niagara, hospital programs and services are changing. Drop by an information open house Oct. 29 to learn more and speak to Niagara Health System leaders about current and future programs at Greater Niagara General Site: Emergency and Urgent Care services; Hospital Improvement Plan; construction update on new healthcare complex and hospital Foundations. Niagara Health [...]
October 15, 2009
NIAGARA, ON – Ambulances will begin taking certain patients to the Urgent Care Centre (UCC) at the Port Colborne Site beginning Friday, October 16, 2009 at 8:00 a.m. The determination of whether a patient will be transported to the UCC will be made based on an assessment by paramedics. Paramedics will be guided by a [...]
September 27, 2009
NIAGARA, ON – Ambulances will begin taking non-emergency patients to the Urgent Care Centre at the Douglas Memorial Site in Fort Erie beginning Monday, September 28th at 8:00 a.m. Niagara Health System (NHS) and Niagara Emergency Medical Services (NEMS) have worked collaboratively through recent months to develop new guidelines for nonemergency patients to be transferred [...]
September 1, 2009
Learn More at Public Information Session Naturally, there are many questions about the transition from Emergency to Urgent Care in Port Colborne and Fort Erie. A number of information sessions are being planned for the summer and into the fall. Here is a list of events that everyone is welcome to attend. Stay tuned for [...]
June 24, 2009
NIAGARA, Ontario: In what healthcare professionals are planning will be a seamless transition, the Niagara Health System is finalizing details to convert the Port Colborne Site’s Emergency Room in less than two weeks to a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week Urgent Care Centre, the first of its kind in Ontario. “We’ve been working on many details with this [...]
June 11, 2009
Some people in Niagara believe that the Douglas Memorial Site in Fort Erie and the Port Colborne Site are going to close. This is not true – our Douglas Memorial and Port Colborne sites are open, and will remain open after the Hospital Improvement Plan (HIP) changes take place to continue to provide important quality [...]