The mother of a 24-year-old woman who died a day after going to a St. Catharines, Ont., hospital with back pain in December says she has “more questions than answers” in the waking of receiving two separate reports she cites as being “inconsistent” with each other.
The hospital network — Niagara Health — and Niagara Emergency Medical Services (EMS) conducted their own internal investigation into the death of Heather Winterstein.
Her mother, Francine Shimizu, told CBC Hamilton she received the findings about a week ago, but didn’t share the specifics on the advice of her lawyer.
“It was quite upsetting to see what they found and also the fact that they were inconsistent. I was
