We are pleased to announce that today our Niagara Health Vaccination Clinic team at Seymour-Hannah Centre surpassed the 90,000 doses mark! We want to congratulate everyone for their hard work in getting us to this point in our fight against COVID-19.
#TeamNiagara
#InItTogether
We are maintaining our masking requirement for everyone inside our hospitals beyond Saturday, June 11. Ensuring a healthy and safe environment for our patients, staff and physicians is our top priority.
A beautiful display of support for our team by the
@NiagRegPolice
outside our St. Catharines Site this morning during the 7 a.m. shift change. Thank you for your support and partnership.
Shout-out to the team at our COVID-19 Assessment Centre in St. Catharines (pictured here) and all of our staff and physicians across Niagara working this holiday weekend.
#HappyEaster
It may be Ben Harpur’s most impressive assist of the year. Ben, who plays for
@NHL
’s Nashville Predators, generously donated to Niagara Health 25 cases of hand sanitizer made by
@dillonsdistills
in Beamsville. Ben’s dad, George, is a Niagara Health surgeon. Thank you, Ben!
A beautiful salute to our healthcare team this evening at our St. Catharines Site. Thank you
@NiagRegPolice
,
@NiagaraEMS
and St. Catharines Fire for this lovely tribute to our caring team. We are sending the love right back your way ❤️
Today, Niagara Health’s COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic at Seymour-Hannah Centre in St. Catharines surpassed 100,000 vaccine doses administered since opening earlier this year.
Read more here:
#VaccinateNiagara
#GotTheShot
#InItTogether
PARADE OF LIGHTS: Another incredible show of support for our team by our first-responder partners this evening at our Welland Site. Thank you
@PortColborne
,
@Welland
and Wainfleet fire departments,
@NiagaraEMS
and
@NiagRegPolice
. ❤️
Yesterday was a record day for vaccinations. Our Seymour-Hannah Clinic and
@NRPublicHealth
administered 2,142 and 2,311 vaccine doses respectively - the highest in one day for both organizations for a total of 4,453 vaccinations (previous record was 3,537). Congrats
#TeamNiagara
!
Special thanks to
@joefetas
for their thoughtfulness today - generously donating food to our staff and physicians who are working around the clock to provide safe, quality care to Niagara residents.
#Covid_19
#actsofkindness
Today Niagara Health completed its final day at the Seymour-Hannah mass vaccination clinic. In total, we administered 253, 679 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to
#Niagara
residents – almost 40 per cent of all doses given in the region. Learn more:
Spotted this beautiful show of support for our team outside the staff entrance at our St. Catharines Site today. If you are looking for a way to show your support, you can learn how from the Niagara Health Foundation:
1/4 NH would like to set the record straight.
• We currently have 20 anesthetists with five to six anesthesiologists who can retire in 2023. To maintain the current model, we need 30.
• We have had a number of physicians leave Niagara Health to join single site hospitals.
A huge thank you to
@Johnny_Roccos
for their generous donation of hand-made pizzas for our hard-working teams. They are visiting all of our sites throughout the week extending gratitude to our team members. And thank you for the lovely messages on the pizza boxes ❤️
We are recognizing an important milestone – as of Wednesday morning, there are no patients being treated for COVID-19 in the hospital. Read more on our website:
Meet our COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic team members!
Our clinic will continue its work administering first and second doses of the Pfizer vaccine to long-term care and high-risk retirement home staff and essential caregivers, as well as hospital staff and physicians.
#TeamNiagara
Niagara will start administering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the coming days. We have planned aggressively with
@NRPublicHealth
over many weeks and are ready to get vaccines into arms! More details here:
@ONThealth
A total of 16 long-term care homes in Niagara completed as of end of day yesterday.
#COVID
-19 vaccinations continue today by
@NRPublicHealth
and
@niagarahealth
We are incredibly proud of the way all of our staff and physicians at Niagara Health have pulled together throughout the pandemic.
Our team has worked extraordinarily hard to serve our community.
#thankyou
The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Niagara! Our team is ready to get vaccine doses into arms, starting tomorrow morning. Details on the local vaccination plan here:
@ONThealth
Dr. Tim St. Amand, Emergency Department Site Lead at our St. Catharines Site, also works one day a week supporting transgender patients at Quest Community Health Centre. For Dr. St. Amand, it’s all about providing care with dignity.
#PrideMonth
#WeAreNH
PLEASE RETWEET
We’re looking for donations of protective equipment, including masks. For more information, please email foundation
@niagarahealth
.on.ca or call 905-323-3863.
Thank you to the emergency services personnel working in this extreme cold, and for the difference you are making. Kudos to
@NiagRegPolice
@NiagaraEMS
, fire departments across Niagara and all municipal work crews.
#ThankYou
Meet Danielle Smith, a Nurse Practitioner who has worked in the St. Catharines Site dedicated COVID unit from the beginning of the pandemic.
She was the first member of our team to receive the vaccine. Read more:
Niagara's first 322 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered today! Personal Support Worker Faber Baquero said he felt “great and blessed” to be the first: “We need to keep our staff and residents safe.” Read more:
@NRPublicHealth
@ONThealth
Veteran Ronald Michael Kelly, a palliative care patient at the Welland Site, attended a
#RemembranceDay
event in the community today.
Niagara Health staff and physicians paid tribute to Ronald, who served 33 years with the Canadian Armed Forces.
#LestWeForget
#CanadaRemembers
Today marks the beginning of
#NationalNursingWeek
and we're recognizing our more than 2,100 nurses who have served on the frontlines during these unprecedented times. Thank you to our nursing teams for the continued courage, strength and resilience they bring to their roles.
A beautiful moment in the Intensive Care Unit at our St. Catharines Site today as Registered Nurse Theressa Scott played the bagpipes for a patient as part of our Three Wishes Program. The program sees our team grant patient and family wishes during end-of-life care.
Thank you to Walker Industries for their very generous donation of $500,000 in support of
@NiagaraHealthFd
’s campaign to bring a third MRI to Niagara.
Shout-out to Canada Post employees across Niagara for delivering a powerful show of support with a parade around our Welland, Greater Niagara General and St. Catharines sites on Saturday. We also appreciate all you’re doing to support our community during this time.
#InItTogether
BIG thanks to Big Marco’s Italian Restaurant for providing pizza and a kind note for our healthcare team on 2A and the Critical Care Unit at our St. Catharines Site. We also love the note you left behind ❤️ Thank you, Niagara, for the outpouring of support!
Our Niagara Health Vaccination Clinic team at Seymour-Hannah Centre has surpassed the 100,000 doses mark! We want to congratulate everyone for their hard work in getting us to this point in our fight against COVID-19.
#TeamNiagara
#InItTogether
#VaccinateNiagara
For the first time since September 2020, Niagara Health does not have any COVID-19 patients admitted in the hospital.
This milestone also reflects the impact COVID-19 vaccinations have on limiting the transmission of the virus in our community. Details:
Needles will begin going into arms tomorrow in Niagara. We’ll be working with
@NRPublicHealth
to vaccinate healthcare workers, essential caregivers, as well as residents at long-term care and high-risk retirement homes. Read more:
#COVID19
A message from the team at our COVID-19 Assessment Centre. We’d love for you to spread this tweet to help stop the spread of the virus.
✅ Stay home
✅ Practise physical distancing
✅ Wash your hands often
Learn more ➡️
#StayHome
#StayHomeNiagara
We celebrated our dedicated team of cancer care nurses this week as part of Oncology Nursing Day (April 6). Our oncology nurses provide extraordinary care and support to our patients and their families. Thank you, team!
In addition to Niagara Falls being lit blue starting at 10 p.m. tonight, the Main Street Bridge in Welland will also be blue, starting at 8:30 p.m., to celebrate
#NationalNursingWeek
and our hard-working teams. Thank you for helping to recognize our nurses!
The Board of Directors of Niagara Health have decided to end the purchase of CEO services within the agreement with St. Joseph’s Health System effective immediately. Read the Board's full statement here:
Thanks to the kind people who left this sign of gratitude for our team outside our Douglas Memorial Site in Fort Erie. It brought great joy to our team, including Registered Practical Nurse Jenn Sorrell, photographed here.
We are saluting our dedicated team of physicians today for
#DoctorsDay
!
“We have asked a lot of our physicians during this challenging time. They have answered the call of duty with professionalism and dedication.”
Read more:
This week, our hospital vaccine clinic team at Seymour-Hannah centre has been working to vaccinate education workers across
#Niagara
, among other priority groups.
Thank you for sharing your message
@PamToque8
!
#InItTogether
💙
We want to recognize our amazing team members, and our partners at
@NRPublicHealth
and
@NiagaraEMS
, who work tirelessly to administer vaccine doses to high-risk groups in the community.
Together, we will continue
#Niagara
's fight against COVID-19.
#TeamNiagara
#InItTogether
Meet some of the special guests we welcomed at our vaccine clinic at Seymour-Hannah arena who
#GotTheShot
!💙
Pregnant individuals can book an appointment at a
#Niagara
COVID-19 vaccination clinic at or call 1-833-943-3900.
#VaccinateNiagara
#InItTogether
We ❤️ these signs members of Niagara OPP are posting at our sites across Niagara in support of our team. We are grateful for our partnership with the OPP and all they do to keep our community safe.
"I'm hopeful this vaccine is what we need," says Personal Support Worker Faber Baquero, the first recipient of the COVID-19 vaccine in Niagara. "The community needs to get back on track."
Meet some of our dedicated team members working at the COVID-19 Assessment Centre at our Greater Niagara General Site in Niagara Falls. We are grateful to all of them, and our team across Niagara, for their service and commitment.
#InItTogether
A sincere thank you to Nick Plati of The Spicy Olive in Niagara Falls for providing lunch for our team at the Greater Niagara General Site this week.
#InItTogether
Thank you,
@niagaracollege
, for donating more than 30,000 personal protective items to front-line healthcare providers. Your incredible support means so much to us!
🚨 Acts of Kindness Alert 🚨
We got your message
@McDonaldsCanada
! Thank you to McDonald's Niagara for the sweet sign. Reminder: healthcare workers and first responders can get a free medium coffee or tea until the end of the month at participating locations!
#InItTogether
To enhance safety and mitigate the financial burden placed on families during this time, all patients, staff and physicians now have free parking at all Niagara Health sites. This temporary measure will continue until further notice.
Read more here:
Last weekend, 3,019 migrant workers from 171 farms in
#Niagara
were vaccinated at our COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic at Seymour Hannah Centre. Farms with migrant workers were prioritized in an effort to reduce the number outbreaks within this sector.
#VaccinateNiagara
#InItTogether
Today kicks off
#NationalNursingWeek
and we’re extending a special thanks to our more than 2,100 nurses who provide extraordinary care to our patients, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stay tuned to learn more about how we’re celebrating our nurses this week.
The first of two COVID-19 assessment centres planned for the region opens today. The centre will provide screening, assessment and testing for individuals with symptoms of COVID-19. The centre will be available by referral only. Learn more:
Meet Niagara Health's first baby of 2021: Ekas Sharma. Ekas was born at 12:55 am. Congratulations to his mom, Manu, and dad, Kam. "He is healthy and perfectly fine and it’s a pure miracle for us. My prayers have been answered," says Manu. Read their story:
Thank you to the municipal crews clearing the roads in Niagara today. And a big shout-out to all the emergency services personnel working in this extreme cold. Thanks to Niagara Regional Police Service, Niagara EMS and fire departments across the region.
Join us in congratulating
@LynnGuerriero
on her appointment as our new President and CEO on a permanent basis. The Board of Directors confirmed Lynn’s appointment today. Learn more:
Meet 10-year-old Isabel. She raised $1,250 for our Walker Family Cancer Centre by selling homemade T-shirts.
Isabel said, "They saved my Mom's life when she had cancer.”
Thank you, Isabel, you are awesome!
The Operating Room team at our Welland Site received these beautiful drawings created by the five-year-old niece of a nurse, thanking our staff and physicians for their hard work. It's another example of the incredible outpouring of support for our team. We feel the love.
As part of
#NursingWeek
, we're showcasing the dedicated nursing teams at our Greater Niagara General Site, where more than 475 nurses work in various roles.
These nursing teams continue to provide Extraordinary Care during the pandemic to support their patients.
#WeAnswerTheCall
We’re excited to announce that Lynn Guerriero, an accomplished executive leader in the Ontario health system, will assume the role of President of Niagara Health next month. She has a passion and vision for high-quality healthcare in Niagara. Read more:
INSIDE THE ICU: The unrelenting nature of the COVID-19 variants of concern and the severity of illness in patients has struck Dr. Ryan D’Sa most about the third wave of the pandemic. “Patients are younger, sicker, often deteriorating quickly.” Read more:
Richard Singer received an emotional send-off when he was discharged from the unit dedicated to caring for patients with COVID at our St. Catharines Site. Members of our team lined the hallway to applaud his recovery and return home.
Read Richard’s story:
Face masks will continue to be required in all areas of our Niagara Health hospital sites, including when visiting a patient’s bedside. Our Visitor Guidelines remain unchanged and must be followed including completing a COVID screening. Read more here:
Here’s another example of the community rallying behind our team. Walker Industries donated N95 masks to our team this week. Thank you for your support!
If you have Personal Protective Equipment you’d like to donate to Niagara Health, please email foundation
@niagarahealth
.on.ca.
Niagara Health’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Seymour-Hannah arena reached a new milestone today by surpassing 200,000 vaccine doses administered. Niagara resident Nick Swift received dose number 200,000. Read more:
#GotTheShot
#InItTogether
Congratulations to Dr. Lorraine Jensen on being named our new Chief of Medicine, effective Dec. 1. Dr. Jensen, the St. Catharines Site Lead of General Internal Medicine since 2017, will replace Dr. Terry Chan, who is completing his second term. Read more:
You no longer need an appointment to get your first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Niagara Health’s vaccination clinic at the Seymour-Hannah arena. Now, anyone 12 years of age and older can come to the clinic at any time for their first dose. Learn more:
It's a sea of pink and kindness at our sites today as members of our team join the
#PinkShirtDay
movement to take a stand against bullying. Please be kind to one another.
#BeKind
Vascular Surgeon Dr. Faysal Naji is helping to administer
#COVID19
vaccines at our clinic. We’re working with
@NRPublicHealth
to immunize 11,000 long-term care residents and staff and Niagara Health physicians and staff over a three-week period:
🚨 Acts of Kindness Alert 🚨
Sending a BIG thank you to our friends at
@917GIANTFM
for delivering coffee and treats to our teams in the COVID Unit at our St. Catharines Site last week! They also donated $250 to the Niagara Health Foundation.💙
#InItTogether
#ThankYouNiagara
Yesterday, we officially closed the doors to our Seymour-Hannah mass vaccination clinic.
We're incredibly grateful and proud of all our staff and physicians for their hard work and dedication in getting us to more than 253,000 vaccine doses administered in Niagara!
#TeamNiagara
COVID-19 vaccinations are underway,
#Niagara
! We’re continuing our work with
@NRPublicHealth
to vaccinate high-risk healthcare workers and long-term care home residents:
@ONThealth
Today
@fordnation
and
@samoosterhoff
visited Niagara Health's vaccination clinic at Seymour-Hannah arena and commended the incredible work of our team to put needles in arms and continue the fight against COVID-19. By end of today, we will have vaccinated over 45,000 people.
Today, Niagara Health reopens its COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic for high-risk healthcare workers at the Seymour Hannah Sports and Entertainment Centre in St. Catharines. Learn more here:
It was an amazing day on our Children's Health Unit as members of the
@OHLIceDogs
and
@NiagRegPolice
brought teddy bears and a lot of smiles to our patients, their loved ones and our staff.
#ThankYou
In anticipation of the Pfizer vaccine arriving in Niagara this week, Alain Boucher, Niagara Health Manager, Engineering Services, went on a special flight path this weekend over St. Catharines. We ❤️ it, Alain!
As part of
#NursingWeek
, we're highlighting the extraordinary team of more than 70 nurses at our Douglas Memorial Site in Fort Erie. They make an effort to get to know their patients and understand what is important to them, which has made a positive impact.
#WeAnswerTheCall
Wishing everyone a Happy Easter. We were sent this amazing sign made by Madelyn, Oliver and Cole of Niagara Falls. The sign is a salute to everyone keeping us safe, healthy and nourished during this challenging time. We think the sign is better than chocolate and just as sweet.
We are wishing all of the moms a very Happy Mother’s Day!
Meet some of the moms who welcomed their new arrivals on our Women's and Babies' Unit this week. More than 3,300 babies were born on the unit in the past year.
#MothersDay
📣ICYMI: One week ago today, Niagara Health's Vaccination Clinic at Seymour-Hannah Centre surpassed the milestone of 100,000 vaccine doses administered! Check out our video to meet MaryAnn, who received the 100,000th dose and some of our team members. 👇
#GotTheShot
#InItTogether
🚨 Acts of Kindness Alert 🚨
Our team in the 4A COVID Unit at our St. Catharines Site received lovely Essential Wellness gift bags. Thank you to
@doterra
for the donation!
#InItTogether
#ThankYouNiagara
Niagara Health is experiencing unprecedented pressures and needs our community’s support to help protect capacity for life-saving critical care and other patient services. The situation is serious in Niagara, as it is across the province. Read the letter:
Over the next several days only, Niagara Health is working with family doctors in the community to directly schedule residents 80 years of age and older to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital’s clinic at Seymour Hannah Centre. Learn more:
Join us in recognizing our dedicated team of Medical Laboratory Professionals during their recognition week. They provide accurate and timely lab test results to other members of our healthcare team to help make medical decisions.
#MedLabWeek
Today, with the help from special guests
@celliottability
&
@KingaSurmaMPP
, we issued the RFP for the South Niagara Site!
The 3 teams now have all they need to begin creating proposals for the new hospital. We look forward to working with each team over the next several months.
The Niagara Health Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Gervan Fearon, President and Vice-Chancellor of Brock University, to the Board, effective today. Read more here:
On Personal Support Worker Day, we are saluting our PSW team across Niagara for their dedication and commitment to providing high-quality care. Thank you, team.
#pswday2020
A mother’s wish was fulfilled as Lisa watched her daughter get married in a hospital ceremony. Days earlier, Lisa was told she had only a short time to live, prompting her daughter to quickly arrange a wedding, with the help of our team. Read their story:
Please continue doing your part to stop the spread of
#COVID19
✅ Stay home
✅ Avoid non-essential trips
✅ Keep 6 feet apart from others; no visitors, no gatherings
✅ Wash your hands often
#StayHome
#StayHomeNiagara
#InItTogether
We are devastated by the targeted Islamophobic attack that took place in London, Ontario on Sunday. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their loved ones. Racism, hate and intolerance have no place in our society. We stand with the Muslim community.
#OurLondonFamily
A sweet surprise for our team at the Greater Niagara General Site after Mike Lalicich and Michael Lalicich from
@DairyQueen
on Ferry Street in Niagara Falls donated 50 boxes of ice cream sandwiches. Thank you!
#InItTogether