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Opinion: A health care boost but so much more to do

WEBThe new Ontario budget includes a $9.8 billion deficit and real-dollar cuts to many public services. We got some wins in the budget — including the elimination of the 6.1 per cent basic tax on Ontario wines, which is a major win for the wine industry, helping to create more economic growth and support good local jobs.

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Code Grey: New doctors a 'good first step,' but NOTL's seniors …

WEBSandra O’Connor, who has been vocal about her views on health care’s shortcomings in NOTL and across the region. However, she said, it is only a first step. “There’s still more work to be done,” O’Connor said. O’Connor cited Jill Croteau, a physician recruitment specialist for Niagara Region, who said that the town needs 14 doctors.

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Dr. Brown: Connecting the mind and body – in sports, stress and …

WEBThe relationship between the mind and the body should not be underestimated: Dr. Brown writes that while working at a sports medicine clinic in the 1990s, coaches at the college and professional level were well aware of the importance of mental as much as physical fitness. When I worked at the New England Medical Center in the …

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Family doctor Julian Adams marks 50 years practising in NOTL

WEBAfter half a century as a trusted family physician in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Dr. Julian Adams has been treating local families for generations – and he wouldn’t have it any other way. This February marked 50 years working in the same location on Niagara Stone Road. He’s a part of the Niagara North Family Health Team, which has been updated

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Code Grey: Workers, advocates paint a grim picture of health care …

WEBFebruary 22, 2023. “Code Grey” is one in a series of stories in The Lake Report about health care in Niagara Region. In hospital parlance, “Code Grey” means loss of essential service. Niagara’s health workers are sounding the alarm over what some are calling a “crisis” in medical care.

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COVID-19: The doctors Foster

WEBTim Taylor. May 7, 2020. Dynamic duo dedicated their careers to ensuring a healthier Niagara. For almost four decades, Niagara medical couple Robin and Kevin Foster have been serving the health needs of the Niagara Region, each in their own way. You could say they have covered the medical map: Kevin, with 37 years in general practice in Niagara

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COVID-19: On NOTL's front line: Part 3: Elise Suhadolc

WEBElise Sudaholc is a nurse practitioner at the Virgil clinic. (Richard Harley) Richard Harley. Editor-In-Chief. May 6, 2020. This story is the third in a series, profiling all three of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s nurse practitioners. This week’s profile, Elise Suhadolc, is one of two nurse practitioners at Niagara North Family Health Team’s

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South Niagara Hospital construction enters new phase

WEBFoundation work has begun on the new South Niagara Hospital. Construction on the new 1.3-million-square-foot hospital at the corner of Montrose and Biggar roads in Niagara Falls began last spring when the City of Niagara Falls and Niagara Region undertook road work at the site.

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State-of-the-art new Village Medical Centre prepares to welcome …

WEBA new medical facility in Niagara-on-the-Lake will mean that physicians like Dr. Karen Berti will be able to provide residents with more accessible health care. Set to begin seeing patients […]

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Marotta family donates $10 million to South Niagara Hospital

WEBThe Marotta family is pledging $10 million to the South Niagara Hospital’s construction, in what the Niagara Health Foundation says is the largest gift it’s ever received. The hospital’s atrium will […]

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NOTL entrepreneurs among finalists for Women in Business Awards

WEBSeveral Niagara-on-the-Lake entrepreneurs and leaders in the world of entertainment, culture and tourism are among the more than 200 finalists in this year’s regional Women in Business Awards. The Greater […]

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Aging in place like planning trip, expert tells NOTL audience

WEBIn many ways, preparing to age in place is like planning a trip. That’s how Sue Lantz from Collaborative Aging described it to the audience Monday night at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library’s “Learn & Live” presentation.. She focused on how seniors can successfully age in place – meaning you have the health and social …

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Museum lecture examines medical profession and women's 'hysteria'

WEBBarbara Worthy Special to The Lake Report. In the age of Hippocrates, had Shawna Butts, assistant curator for the Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum, visited a male physician with any kind of abdominal “condition,” she would have been told it was caused by the “animal within an animal.”

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St. Catharines hospital to be renamed for Marotta family after …

WEBJanuary 19, 2024. Niagara Health says a multi-million dollar donation from a Niagara-on-the-Lake family will go a long way toward transforming health care in Niagara. Sisters Angela Marotta and Melissa Marotta-Paocelli made a $15-million donation to the Niagara Health Foundation and to recognize the donation, Niagara Health announced it will be

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A who’s who of people involved in the NOTL library drama

WEBMarch 28, 2024. Here are all the people involved in the upheaval at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library: At the centre of the controversy. Cathy Simpson: Former chief librarian and CEO, who was fired over the contents of a column published in The Lake Report about Freedom to Read Week. Simpson was in the position for more than a decade.

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New mobile clinic will bring health care right to NOTL farm workers

WEBQuest Community Health Centre executive director Nancy Garner, in back, with Jesslyn Froese and Moises Vasquez. Garner says a new mobile clinic will bring access to health care to seasonal agricultural workers in Niagara-on-the-Lake, rather than the workers having to travel long distances, on foot or by bicycle.

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Simpson's Pharmacy purchased by SRx Health Solutions

WEBSimpson’s Pharmacy, a venerable Niagara-on-the-Lake health care institution for more than 45 years, has been purchased by SRx Health Solutions Inc., a major Canadian health and pharmaceutical company.. Sean Simpson, who has been running the company started by his father Ward in 1977, will assume the title of …

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Doctors, NOTL health team moving to The Village

WEBJanuary 6, 2021. Health group will move to new building behind CIBC. Some of Niagara-on-the-Lake's doctors are getting new digs. Next January, five NOTL doctors and the entire Niagara North Family Health Team are planning to move to The Village plaza, to a yet-to-be-constructed building behind the CIBC bank.

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BREAKING: NNFHT doctors threaten to leave NOTL

WEBNiagara North Family Health Team has said if Niagara-on-the-Lake town council doesn’t approve the land use amendments for a proposed new medical centre, doctors may be “forced to seek other options outside the community.”

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Dr. Joseph Pohorly was a passionate winemaker, builder and …

WEBNiagara-on-the-Lake Coun. Erwin Wiens, a fellow grape grower, knew Pohorly for many years. “I sold in him grapes when he owned Joseph’s,” said Wiens. “He was so easy to work with. And he did the engineering for my dad’s barn back in the early '90s. “He was a real pioneer in the industry.”. Pohorly sold the winery in 2014 but

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