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As businesses and organizations across the globe closed their doors our Headwaters Heroes fought night and day to find solutions to keep our doors open and move mountains for our community.

Driving into work down empty highways for days, weeks and months without a break, our team stayed the course because we knew had to. There were people reliant on our care, who simply would not survive if our doors closed, people like Liz.

The necessity of health care does not stop– not even for a pandemic – it only becomes even more essential.

In Wave 1, care providers across the globe needed to think quickly and come up with creative solutions so that patients, families and caregivers had what they needed when they needed it.

With the onset of the third wave of the pandemic, our Headwaters Heroes were called upon once more to step up and support areas in our hospital in critical need.

Our team assembled additional patient beds to accept transfers from other overburdened hospitals in our region and we needed clinical and non-clinical team members to support those spaces.

At the age of 16 Kim began nursing at a Long-Term Care facility in Owen Sound. Her family made the move Orangeville in 1981 and she began working at Fountain View Retirement Home which eventually became Avalon Retirement Lodge.