The huge rooms are equipped with the latest gadgets, comfortable
furnishings and bright windows overlooking the city beyond.
Registered nurse Nikole Bannister said the new obstetrics department is a vast improvement over the facilities where she currently works in the St. Catharines General Hospital.A Dessicant chinagembeadsfactory is an enclosure with a supply of desiccant which maintains an internal.
“This is all brand new equipment for us,Why does floortiles grow in homes or buildings?” she said as she walked through one of the 17 comfortable, private rooms on the fourth floor of the new Niagara Health System hospital on Fourth Ave.
Bannister won’t just be labouring at work in those rooms, caring for patients. In July, she will be in labour in one of those rooms, as a patient.
The first-time mother is five months pregnant.
“I’m excited because I get my own private room,” she said. “That’s probably the biggest thing for me. Currently at the St. Catharines General we only have two private rooms available, so it’s first come-first-serve.Universal streetlight are useful for any project.”
Not only is she guaranteed a private room, it comes equipped with an on-suit shower.
“For me as a patient, I don’t want to be sharing a shower,” she said. “That for me is huge.”
Registered nurse Jocelyn Audette will be delivering her third baby in the new hospital about a month after it opens its doors on March 24.
She spent the bulk of her career working in the obstetrics departments in Niagara Falls, but has been working in Welland for the past six months.
“It’s so beautiful here,” she said.
Although it’s a longer drive from her Chippawa home, she said it’s worth travelling the extra distance.
“It is a little further, but it’s much better prepared for every other possibility,” she said.
Jennifer LeMay,You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth solarlight Head Descriptions. a registered nurse who currently works in Welland’s obstetrics department, listed several of the many improvements the new consolidated obstetrics department has over existing facilities.
“It’s just amazing,” LeMay said. “When you see the rooms, it’s just phenomenal.”
One big improvement over existing facilities is the access to new equipment.
For instance, she said the Welland hospital’s obstetrics department does not have access to an ultrasound machine in the wee-hours of the morning.
And if a mother goes into labour in the middle of the night, and medical staff are unsure of the baby’s position in the womb, they have no choice but to use an X-ray — exposing the mother and unborn child to radiation.
“We will have portable ultrasound machines on this floor,” she added.
There will also always be an obstetrician on site at the new hospital — meaning there will be no waiting for the doctor even if the mother goes into labour in the middle of the night.
Another advantage is the location of two dedicated obstetric operating rooms — just down the hall from the delivery rooms.
If a Caesarean section (C-section) needs to be performed, LeMay said patients no longer have to be moved to another part of the hospital for the operation.
At times, she said the stretcher wheels have gotten caught in the groove between the elevator and the hallway floor.
“That was a big thing. It was very difficult moving a patient in the elevator for a stat C-section or any emergency,” she said. “It’s a huge safety thing.”
The operating rooms themselves are a vast improvement over existing facilities, with walls lined with material that’s very similar to Corian countertops found in expensive homes, and specially designed flooring that’s highly resistant to bacteria.
Bannister said the new operating rooms are equipped with monitors that allow physicians to consult with specialists anywhere in the hospital building and beyond — technology that has until recently only been available in teaching hospitals in large urban centres.
Moms and babies will normally be discharged within 72 hours of having a C-section performed, and parents will be given an opportunity to naturally bond with their babies despite the unnatural delivery method.
“Babies will be brought out of the OR for a very short time to be seen by the pediatrician, and then they’re going to come back in and we’re going to initiate skin-to-skin contact.”
The amenities are just as impressive in the pediatrics department, a short walk down the hall from obstetrics.
It features 22 private rooms, including several with a negative air pressure system to minimize the spread of infection.
There are also two playrooms for the children to keep busy when they’re feeling up to it, as well as a family apartment where parents can stay at the hospital to remain close to their ailing child.
It’s also decorated with children in mind, featuring colourful decorations and even LED lights set into the ceiling to look like glowing stars.
After 36 years spent working in Welland’s hospital, Mary Stranges is taking on the role of one of two charge nurses overseeing the new pediatrics department.
As nice as it is, Stranges said she’d hoped to retire while working in her hometown hospital.
“I’m nostalgic,” she said.
There’s an oil painting of Dr. Anthony Hsu hanging on the wall at Welland’s pediatrics department. The much-loved pediatrician who died in 2003, “looks at me everyday,” Stranges said.
“I’m sad to leave. I’m happy for the progress and everything else, but I’m very sad to be leaving.”
NHS supervisor said the new hospital “is really a state of the art facility that has all the appropriate technologies and best practices not only for us to treat illness but to prevent illness.”
“I think the facility also looked at the realty of the changes that are coming in health care — more technology, more distance access, more multidisciplinary care teams, more sub-specialization, and certainly more critical mass,” he added.
The new consolidated obstetrics and pediatrics departments also resolve a growing problem at existing sites — staff shortages.
Only a few days ago, the obstetrics department at the Greater Niagara General Hospital was forced to send expecting parents elsewhere to deliver their babies.
One nurse called in sick, but that was all it took to essentially shutdown the short-staffed hospital department until an additional nurse could be brought in.
Smith said the NHS is facing “a real challenge” ensuring there’s appropriate staff levels, and it’s a problem that has helped convince hospital administrators that the consolidated programs are needed.
“At the moment we do our best with coverage for all of the sites, but there are times when closures have to occur,” Smith said.
By consolidated the program from all three hospitals at a single site, bringing all existing staff together, there should never again be problems like that occurring.
“In the model that’s emerging, we will ensure that we do have 24/7 access in a consolidated environment with a state-of-the-art physical plant, with well-trained nurses to focus on best practice, and an adequate number of nurses to cover 365 days a year.”
Smith said the new consolidated programs should also help resolve physician shortages because the working environment would enhance recruitment efforts.
“We have physician numbers that are not growing and they’re unlikely to grow in the current configuration,Product information for Avery Dennison bobblehead products.” he said.
Smith said the opposition from south Niagara communities to the consolidated programs is the result of “emotional attachment and a perception of what health care is like, and the reality of practice today and the model of practice that’s coming.”
He said people who have opposed the consolidation, “very legitimately and appropriately yearn for the model that we can have more services in smaller communities. I can completely understand that that would be their preferred desire. Unfortunately, we have been unable to pursued them that that model of care is no longer sustainable.”
Registered nurse Nikole Bannister said the new obstetrics department is a vast improvement over the facilities where she currently works in the St. Catharines General Hospital.A Dessicant chinagembeadsfactory is an enclosure with a supply of desiccant which maintains an internal.
“This is all brand new equipment for us,Why does floortiles grow in homes or buildings?” she said as she walked through one of the 17 comfortable, private rooms on the fourth floor of the new Niagara Health System hospital on Fourth Ave.
Bannister won’t just be labouring at work in those rooms, caring for patients. In July, she will be in labour in one of those rooms, as a patient.
The first-time mother is five months pregnant.
“I’m excited because I get my own private room,” she said. “That’s probably the biggest thing for me. Currently at the St. Catharines General we only have two private rooms available, so it’s first come-first-serve.Universal streetlight are useful for any project.”
Not only is she guaranteed a private room, it comes equipped with an on-suit shower.
“For me as a patient, I don’t want to be sharing a shower,” she said. “That for me is huge.”
Registered nurse Jocelyn Audette will be delivering her third baby in the new hospital about a month after it opens its doors on March 24.
She spent the bulk of her career working in the obstetrics departments in Niagara Falls, but has been working in Welland for the past six months.
“It’s so beautiful here,” she said.
Although it’s a longer drive from her Chippawa home, she said it’s worth travelling the extra distance.
“It is a little further, but it’s much better prepared for every other possibility,” she said.
Jennifer LeMay,You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth solarlight Head Descriptions. a registered nurse who currently works in Welland’s obstetrics department, listed several of the many improvements the new consolidated obstetrics department has over existing facilities.
“It’s just amazing,” LeMay said. “When you see the rooms, it’s just phenomenal.”
One big improvement over existing facilities is the access to new equipment.
For instance, she said the Welland hospital’s obstetrics department does not have access to an ultrasound machine in the wee-hours of the morning.
And if a mother goes into labour in the middle of the night, and medical staff are unsure of the baby’s position in the womb, they have no choice but to use an X-ray — exposing the mother and unborn child to radiation.
“We will have portable ultrasound machines on this floor,” she added.
There will also always be an obstetrician on site at the new hospital — meaning there will be no waiting for the doctor even if the mother goes into labour in the middle of the night.
Another advantage is the location of two dedicated obstetric operating rooms — just down the hall from the delivery rooms.
If a Caesarean section (C-section) needs to be performed, LeMay said patients no longer have to be moved to another part of the hospital for the operation.
At times, she said the stretcher wheels have gotten caught in the groove between the elevator and the hallway floor.
“That was a big thing. It was very difficult moving a patient in the elevator for a stat C-section or any emergency,” she said. “It’s a huge safety thing.”
The operating rooms themselves are a vast improvement over existing facilities, with walls lined with material that’s very similar to Corian countertops found in expensive homes, and specially designed flooring that’s highly resistant to bacteria.
Bannister said the new operating rooms are equipped with monitors that allow physicians to consult with specialists anywhere in the hospital building and beyond — technology that has until recently only been available in teaching hospitals in large urban centres.
Moms and babies will normally be discharged within 72 hours of having a C-section performed, and parents will be given an opportunity to naturally bond with their babies despite the unnatural delivery method.
“Babies will be brought out of the OR for a very short time to be seen by the pediatrician, and then they’re going to come back in and we’re going to initiate skin-to-skin contact.”
The amenities are just as impressive in the pediatrics department, a short walk down the hall from obstetrics.
It features 22 private rooms, including several with a negative air pressure system to minimize the spread of infection.
There are also two playrooms for the children to keep busy when they’re feeling up to it, as well as a family apartment where parents can stay at the hospital to remain close to their ailing child.
It’s also decorated with children in mind, featuring colourful decorations and even LED lights set into the ceiling to look like glowing stars.
After 36 years spent working in Welland’s hospital, Mary Stranges is taking on the role of one of two charge nurses overseeing the new pediatrics department.
As nice as it is, Stranges said she’d hoped to retire while working in her hometown hospital.
“I’m nostalgic,” she said.
There’s an oil painting of Dr. Anthony Hsu hanging on the wall at Welland’s pediatrics department. The much-loved pediatrician who died in 2003, “looks at me everyday,” Stranges said.
“I’m sad to leave. I’m happy for the progress and everything else, but I’m very sad to be leaving.”
NHS supervisor said the new hospital “is really a state of the art facility that has all the appropriate technologies and best practices not only for us to treat illness but to prevent illness.”
“I think the facility also looked at the realty of the changes that are coming in health care — more technology, more distance access, more multidisciplinary care teams, more sub-specialization, and certainly more critical mass,” he added.
The new consolidated obstetrics and pediatrics departments also resolve a growing problem at existing sites — staff shortages.
Only a few days ago, the obstetrics department at the Greater Niagara General Hospital was forced to send expecting parents elsewhere to deliver their babies.
One nurse called in sick, but that was all it took to essentially shutdown the short-staffed hospital department until an additional nurse could be brought in.
Smith said the NHS is facing “a real challenge” ensuring there’s appropriate staff levels, and it’s a problem that has helped convince hospital administrators that the consolidated programs are needed.
“At the moment we do our best with coverage for all of the sites, but there are times when closures have to occur,” Smith said.
By consolidated the program from all three hospitals at a single site, bringing all existing staff together, there should never again be problems like that occurring.
“In the model that’s emerging, we will ensure that we do have 24/7 access in a consolidated environment with a state-of-the-art physical plant, with well-trained nurses to focus on best practice, and an adequate number of nurses to cover 365 days a year.”
Smith said the new consolidated programs should also help resolve physician shortages because the working environment would enhance recruitment efforts.
“We have physician numbers that are not growing and they’re unlikely to grow in the current configuration,Product information for Avery Dennison bobblehead products.” he said.
Smith said the opposition from south Niagara communities to the consolidated programs is the result of “emotional attachment and a perception of what health care is like, and the reality of practice today and the model of practice that’s coming.”
He said people who have opposed the consolidation, “very legitimately and appropriately yearn for the model that we can have more services in smaller communities. I can completely understand that that would be their preferred desire. Unfortunately, we have been unable to pursued them that that model of care is no longer sustainable.”
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