Niagara Health System Foundation
155 Ontario Street, First Floor
St. Catharines, ON L2R 5K3
Tel: 905.378.4647, Ext. 32247
Fax: 905.682.1472
nhsfoundation@niagarahealth.on.ca
The creation of the Niagara Health System Foundation (NHS Foundation) brings another strong and caring community volunteer group to our dynamic health-care team focused on meeting the health needs of the people of our region.
The mandate of the NHS Foundation is to oversee fundraising for capital development, medical equipment and technology to support system-wide regional services. This Foundation works collaboratively with our individual local site foundations and auxiliaries, which continue to fulfill their mandates to fundraise for their respective community site needs.
It’s Our Time Campaign (visit website)
The NHS Foundation, working in partnership with each of the local site foundations, manages the Niagara-wide It’s Our Time Campaign. This Campaign is raising $40-million to help fund new facilities and equipment, and renovations to existing facilities, including:
- development of a new acute-care hospital for St. Catharines and immediate area, replacing the aging St. Catharines General and Ontario Street Sites of the NHS
- new and expanded regional services for the treatment of cancer, cardiac, mental health and kidney diseases at the Walker Family Cancer Centre, heart investigation unit, Niagara Regional mental health centre, and dialysis units in St. Catharines, Welland and the one planned for Niagara Falls.
- equipment for the Greater Niagara General Site including an echocardiography unit, ultrasound machine, Gamma Camera, anaesthetic, mammography and endoscopy equipment
- equipment for the Urgent Care Centre, renovations to facilitate development of the Complex Continuing Care Centre, and new electric beds at the Douglas Memorial Site
- renovations and equipment for the Urgent Care Centre and upgrades and new diagnostic imaging equipment for the Complex Continuing Care Centre at the Port Colborne Site
- equipment for the Welland Site, including a new 128-slice CT Scanner.