This weekend, Niagara Health and Hotel Dieu Shaver are set to begin using a new, advanced Hospital Information System (HIS) designed to improve how we deliver care. This significant and secure move to a state-of-the-art system is set to enhance co-ordination, efficiency and access to information, ultimately making patient care faster and safer.
We are deeply saddened by the loss of the Honourable Murray Sinclair, a former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools in Canada.
As Niagara Health prepares to launch our new HIS, patient partners are stepping into pivotal roles to ensure the new system meets the needs of patients and caregivers.
Dr. Tim St. Amand knows change can be challenging. The largest technological transformation in Niagara Health’s history is no exception for the Emergency Department Site Lead at the Marotta Family Hospital in St. Catharines.
Amr Almasri and Keira Parr each took unconventional paths to get into the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine – Niagara Regional Campus. They’re ready to bring their own special experiences to healthcare, the classroom and even a few taste buds along the way.
Julia Becevel started as a co-op student on the Hospital Information System project and has since been hired full-time to help with this generational shift in technology that will improve patient care.
Many people are understandably frustrated by long wait times in the ED. The truth is, the pressures hospitals face are bigger than what we can fix within our walls.
Whether it’s groundbreaking research or establishing faster, more efficient patient care, the work of Leanne Kent and Dr. Danielle de Sa Boasquevisque offers new hope for stroke patients in Niagara and beyond.
For several years, immunization against RSV was only available to preterm, vulnerable babies with one injection a month during respiratory illness season (November to April). That’s now changing.
While in nursing school, Devan MacCulloch didn’t know what he wanted to specialize in, but cardiology could have been a fitting choice.
