Loved ones play an invaluable role in the care of our patients. When visitor restrictions were put in place at Niagara Health to limit the spread of COVID-19 and keep everyone safe, we introduced the Essential Care Partners (ECP) program to ensure our patients would continue to benefit from the support of their loved ones while in the hospital.
COVID-19 vaccine appointments available for youth 12-17 and adults 18+ for the Pfizer vaccine from June 2 to 12 at the Seymour-Hannah Sports and Entertainment Centre.
Santé Niagara se prépare prudemment à reprendre les interventions et les opérations non urgentes à compter du mardi 25 mai, en commençant par la chirurgie de jour et d’autres interventions en consultation externe, pour passer ensuite aux opérations avec hospitalisation plus tard dans la semaine.
Niagara Health is cautiously starting to resume elective surgeries and procedures as of Tuesday, May 25, starting with day surgeries and other outpatient procedures and moving to inpatient surgeries later in the week.
Aujourd’hui, Santé Niagara a commencé à fixer des rendez-vous pour les travailleurs de la santé à risque élevé qui peuvent recevoir leur seconde dose du vaccin contre la COVID-19 à un intervalle plus court. Dans la région de Niagara, on estime à 13 000 le nombre de travailleurs de la santé qui seront touchés par la nouvelle directive du gouvernement provincial visant à écourter l’intervalle entre les deux doses.
Today, Niagara Health started scheduling high-risk healthcare workers for their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a shortened interval. An estimated 13,000 healthcare workers in Niagara will be impacted by this new provincial direction to shorten the second-dose interval.
Niagara Health would like to recognize its nursing teams during National Nursing Week, May 10 to 16. The organization’s nurses have been at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19 and have remained dedicated to providing patients and their loved ones with Extraordinary Caring.
Today, Niagara Health’s COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic at Seymour-Hannah Sports and Entertainment Centre in St. Catharines surpassed 100,000 vaccine doses administered since opening earlier this year.
It’s the unrelenting nature of the COVID-19 variants of concern and the severity of illness in patients that has struck Dr. Ryan D’Sa most about the third wave of the pandemic.
À la clinique de vaccination COVID-19 de Santé Niagara aménagée au Seymour-Hannah Sports and Entertainment Centre, on continue à réaliser d’énormes progrès dans la lutte contre la COVID-19. En effet, jusqu’ici, plus de 95 000 doses y ont été administrées.
