Hamilton Health Sciences

• HHS says West End Urgent Care Centre will reopen next week

  The urgent care centre was temporarily closed on April 19 to support COVID-19 efforts, and was used as a COVID-19 assessment centre until July 15.

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  Jul 29
• Surgical backlog affected by COVID-19 close to 12,000 cases at Hamilton hospitals

  Both Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joe's say delayed non-urgent/non-emergent surgeries could take awhile to clear.

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  Jul 7
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• Hamilton reports 8 new COVID-19 cases, closing in on goal of 75% fully vaccinated by August

  Hamilton's vaccination program has now reached about three-quarters of the population 18-plus.

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  Jul 5
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• Norfolk farmer goes home after months in Hamilton ICU with COVID-19

  Hospitalized for nearly three months, Mike VanNetten bid farewell to a number of Hamilton doctors and nurses who aided his recovery.

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  Jul 1
• Three teams shortlisted to build new Grimsby, Ont. hospital

  The redevelopment plan calls for the construction of a new, larger hospital behind the existing West Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Grimsby.

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  Jun 30
• Hamilton researchers join study of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness on South Asian community

  Immune response to vaccines and hesitancy around immunization will be targets in the Canadian study.

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  Jun 3
• Hamilton reports 2 new COVID-19 deaths, HHS says drop in ICU cases continues to be slow

  Hamilton Health Sciences is reporting a slow decline with COVID-19 cases in ICU's despite a quicker drop in hospitalizations.

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  May 28
• Boys born prematurely and very small age faster as men, McMaster study suggests

  Researchers followed a group of what they refer to as ``extremely low birth weight'' babies as well as their normal-weight counterparts.

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  May 17
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• Go to the ER if your child is really sick amid COVID-19 pandemic: Ontario doctors

  A number of Ontario doctors say visits to pediatric emergency units have declined amid the pandemic as parents fear exposure to COVID-19 or worry about taxing health-care workers.

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  Apr 30
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• Ontario soon to have another field hospital as Hamilton site prepares for operation next month

  Hamilton's mobile health unit is much like the the one at Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto – which began receiving patients this week.

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  Apr 29