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Over the course of the pandemic, we were deeply touched by the generosity of our community.

Watching or hearing about local businesses showing up at our hospital to deliver food and supplies to our team as they struggled to keep their doors open with provincial restrictions in place demonstrated just the kind of place we work in (and many of us live in).

Heather began volunteering with TeleCheck over ten years ago after learning about the opportunity from a friend, fellow community contributor and program founder, Katherine. 

I was a member of the team that intubated the first two COVID-19 positive patients that required ventilation at our hospital. I remember intubating one patient in our Intensive Care Unit and before I was finished there was a knock on the door with a message that a second patient needed the same intervention immediately in the Emergency Department.

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.