News & stories

The Accelerator Centre (AC) and Grand River Hospital (GRH) are pleased to announce the launch of a new, collaborative program aimed at improving patient care, and helping Canadian-made medical solutions test and enhance their technologies in partnership with the health system.

It was the middle of the night in February 2021 when 29 year-old Abdullahi knew something was very wrong. Sick with a cough, headache and fever from previously diagnosed COVID, he began experiencing numbness in his left hand and arm. By the time he woke the next morning, the numbness had spread to the left side of his body. Read Abdullahi's story here.

In partnership with Region of Waterloo Public Health, GRH has declared an outbreak of COVID-19 on its adult inpatient mental health unit (1FSouth and 1F psychiatric intensive care) with four patients and no staff impacted. We are also investigating a potential outbreak on 1FNorth.

Thanks to a partnership between the Region of Waterloo, Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (SOAHAC) and the Grand River Hospital COVID-19 vaccination site, Indigenous community members in Waterloo Region can choose to receive their vaccine from an Indigenous immunizer in a culturally safe space, with traditional practice and medicines available for support. Click here to read more.

At Grand River Hospital (GRH), a community hospital in Kitchener, Ontario, we worked with the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) to identify that we could effectively reduce rates of opioid prescription for our general surgery patients, without compromising their pain management.

June is officially upon us and Grand River Hospital is once again proud to recognize the LGBTQ2+ community and show our support for our team members, patients, volunteers, and our community during Pride month.

On May 31, Grand River Hospital lowered the flags at its campuses to mourn the deaths of 215 children found buried at Kamloops Indian Residential School on Friday, and for many other children, families, and communities who were victims of the residential school system. The flags will remain lowered for 215 hours – 9 days – in honour of each life.

This month, we’re celebrating the role that physiotherapists play in the lives of patients at Grand River Hospital. Physiotherapists (PTs) are essential members of our team! Ron Spitzig came to physiotherapy care at Grand River Hospital’s Freeport Campus following a back surgery.

Almost exactly a year after she was in Grand River Hospital’s ICU, critically ill on a ventilator, 29 year-old Simone was admitted to the hospital again. This time it was to have her first baby, a son. Click here to read Simone's inspiring story of recovery and life after COVID.