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The Niagara Health System, or Niagara Health (NH), is a Canadian multi-site hospital amalgamation, comprising five sites serving over 450,000 residents across the 12 municipalities making up the Regional Municipality of Niagara, Canada. Niagara Health is one of Ontario's largest hospital systems, with 4,800 employees, 600 physicians and 850 ...
St. Catharines. St. Catharines General Hospital (Niagara Health System) Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre; Sudbury. Health Sciences North; Thunder Bay. Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre; Toronto (see also: List of hospitals in Toronto) Baycrest Health Sciences; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; Etobicoke General ...
Niagara Health assumed responsibility of the facility once occupied by the Hotel Dieu, which became known as the Ontario Street Site of Niagara Health before closing, being replaced by the St. Catharines site in the city's west end. Hotel Dieu Shaver is a stand-alone legal entity, funded by the Ministry of Health.
The St. Catharines General Hospital was a general hospital established in 1865 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, serving the Niagara Region.First established as a general and marine cottage hospital, it moved to Queenston Street in 1870.
The facility became Birkenhead Municipal Hospital in 1930 and then joined the National Health Service as St Catherine's Hospital in 1948. [5] In 2013, St Catherine's underwent a £32.6 million redevelopment, with the original St Catherine's Hospital buildings replaced with the new, four storey health centre.
As healthcare debate in the United States reached the top of the U.S. domestic policy agenda during the U.S. 2008 presidential race with a combination of "soaring costs" in the healthcare system and an increasing number of Americans without health insurance because of job loss during the recession, the long wait lists of Canada's so-called ...
The U.S. data is evidenced in a 2007 Consumer Reports study on the U.S. health care system which showed that the underinsured account for 4% of the U.S. population and live with skeletal health insurance that barely covers their medical needs and leaves them unprepared to pay for major medical expenses.
SEIU started organizing healthcare workers in Ontario hospitals in the early 1940s. SEIU continued its efforts and formed Canada's first hospital local at the Toronto General Hospital in 1944, and went on to organize four hospitals in Thunder Bay in 1946. [citation needed] SEIU continued to expand in hospitals and nursing homes.