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(May 17, 2025)<\/p>\n

By: Kris Dub\u00e9, Fort Erie Radio<\/p>\n

Heather Kelley says the fight to save the Douglas Memorial urgent care centre has come a long way since its planned closure was announced.<\/p>\n

Kelley, the founder of Fort Erie Healthcare SOS, was one of six people from Fort Erie who made a trip to Queen\u2019s Park on Wednesday. The group set out to make their position known that closing Fort Erie\u2019s urgent care centre\u00a0when a new hospital in Niagara Falls is built<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>is not right for the community.<\/p>\n

They were part of a convoy organized by the Niagara Health Coalition made up of about 35 people from various parts of the region, such as Port Colborne and Welland.<\/p>\n

According to Kelley, an ongoing concern is that the provincial government \u201cjust wants to talk about how much money they\u2019ve spent on hospitals,\u201d and not about individual sites that are in jeopardy, such as Fort Erie\u2019s urgent care centre.<\/p>\n

Kelley and her group are demanding that the town\u2019s urgent care centre remains open and that its hours are restored to 24-7.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re absolutely making a difference,\u201d she told Fort Erie Radio in an interview.<\/p>\n

Douglas Memorial was once a full-service hospital with an emergency department.<\/p>\n

About 15 years ago, the site lost its emergency department and was downgraded to an urgent care centre, and its hours were significantly reduced in 2023.<\/p>\n

Fort Erie town council passed a resolution<\/a><\/span>\u00a0last year that petitioned the Minister of Health to commit to funding all services at the new Niagara Falls hospital without using the funding allocated for Douglas Memorial, and that the local funding allocation be set aside to support a redeveloped model that keeps primary care services in Fort Erie.<\/p>\n

This motion has been supported by regional council as well as the City of Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n

Click here for the original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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