Skip to content
News & Updates from Niagara Health

Share This Page

Niagara Health News and Updates

EVS aide tackles long to-do list with optimism and a smile

EVS aide tackles long to-do list with optimism and a smile

Posted Sep 12th, 2023

Niagara Health is celebrating the contributions of its 400 Environmental Services aides this week, during EVS Week, for making the hospital “a better place” for all.

Read more

New Mental Health and Addictions Resource Centre to support staff in delivering evidence-based patient care

New Mental Health and Addictions Resource Centre to support staff in delivering evidence-based patient care

Posted Sep 8th, 2023

Niagara Health team members now have centralized access to a wide range of mental health and addictions supports with the opening of the new Mental Health and Addictions Resource Centre.

Read more

Behavioural Supports team cracks code on compassionate care

Behavioural Supports team cracks code on compassionate care

Posted Aug 31st, 2023

You could call Lennie Epp and Paige Cote the dynamic duo when it comes to deciphering complex communication and behaviour in patients in an effort to improve healthcare experiences.

Read more

Results of summer student’s study could change how translational research is performed

Results of summer student’s study could change how translational research is performed

Posted Aug 30th, 2023

Funding from the COVID-19 Network of Clinical Trials Networks (NoN) is backing significant research at Niagara Health that could change the way translational research is performed.

Read more

‘Embrace the change:’ Chief of Surgery hangs up his scrubs

‘Embrace the change:’ Chief of Surgery hangs up his scrubs

Posted Aug 28th, 2023

Dr. Ian Brown reflects on a long career punctuated by significant achievements – and challenges – in patient care in Niagara.

Read more

External ED Assessment Panel makes recommendations for Niagara Health

External ED Assessment Panel makes recommendations for Niagara Health

Posted Aug 28th, 2023

As we work towards reconciliation, President and CEO Lynn Guerriero has committed to accountability and transparency and accepts all of the recommendations of the Panel, which will be applied across the three EDs and all Niagara Health sites.

Read more

Hospital Spotlight: ‘She didn't save my life, but she saved my sanity,’ patient says of St. Catharines hospital emergency nurse

Hospital Spotlight: ‘She didn't save my life, but she saved my sanity,’ patient says of St. Catharines hospital emergency nurse

Posted Aug 24th, 2023

It was the dedication and care from a St. Catharines hospital emergency nurse that made all the difference in Kathryn Crow's recovery from a serious leg injury.

Read more

Grant funding supports new clinical research trials at Niagara Health

Grant funding supports new clinical research trials at Niagara Health

Posted Aug 24th, 2023

Clinical trials research at Niagara Health has received a boost thanks to more than $300,000 in funding from the Accelerating Clinical Trials Canada Consortium.

Read more

Niagara Health invests in Welland hospital day surgery operations

Niagara Health invests in Welland hospital day surgery operations

Posted Aug 18th, 2023

Improvements to the Welland hospital day surgery operating suites have taken place over the past two weeks, thanks to investment in three new washer-disinfectors and an operating room refurbishment.

Read more

Recognition, support for ICU doctor’s research is ‘the Niagara Health way’

Recognition, support for ICU doctor’s research is ‘the Niagara Health way’

Posted Aug 17th, 2023

Since arriving at Niagara Health, Dr. Erick Duan has helped to grow a critical care research program that today sees the hospital involved in 26 clinical trials and observational studies to improve patient care.

Read more

Niagara Health System