February 24, 2022 Norfolk General Hospital (NGH) has announced that the withdrawal management program at Holmes House is temporarily closing due to ongoing staffing shortages caused by COVID-19 and a…

February 16, 2022 With the steady decline in COVID-19 related hospitalizations and ICU admissions across Ontario, the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health issued a revision to Directive #2 outlining…

February 17, 2022 Holmes House will fully reopen to provide its withdrawal management services beginning on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, at 8 a.m. “We are pleased to be in a…

February 10, 2022 The COVID-19 outbreak at Norfolk General Hospital’s 3B Medical/Surgical unit is officially over today. An outbreak on the 3B unit was declared on Jan. 29 after two…

February 3, 2022 The Norfolk General Hospital (NGH) COVID-19 immunization clinic is celebrating another milestone. The NGH vaccination team has now administered more than 50,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine…

January 31, 2022 The Norfolk Hospital Nursing Home’s (NHNH) COVID-19 outbreak has been declared over, in consultation with the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit. The outbreak at the NHNH was declared on…

January 31, 2022 Due to the widespread transmission of omicron in our community, several of our staff are off work isolating requiring Holmes House to temporarily adjust the tentative re-opening…

Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022 Norfolk General Hospital (NGH) has declared a COVID-19 outbreak on the 3B Medical/Surgical unit after two inpatients tested positive for COVID-19. NGH has implemented comprehensive Infection…

January 28, 2022 Despite extraordinary measures to create additional capacity for critical care services, pressures on the Hamilton-Niagara-Haldimand-Brant-Burlington (HNHBB) region’s critical care capacity have worsened over the last week. These…

January 27, 2022 The Ontario government announced today they are adding 48 new and 80 upgraded long-term care beds to a new building for the Norfolk Hospital Nursing Home’s long-term…