Fort Erie gains two family doctors, its first of 2026
August 22, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Fort Erie will gain two family doctors before the end of the year.
Jill Croteau, physician recruitment program manager for Niagara Region, told Fort Erie Radio that one of the doctors has already started seeing patients on Garrison Road. The second will open a clinic on Jarvis Street around the beginning of November.
“If anyone is looking for a doctor, now’s the time to get one,” said Croteau.
Dr. Yasir Nawaz Khan has joined a family practice on Garrison Road and is accepting new patients, according to Croteau.
The Town of Fort Erie welcomed Dr. Khan in a Saturday social media post, noting that he would be practicing in a new clinic within Freeland Pharmacy on Garrison Road. Credit: Town of Fort Erie | FacebookHis registration had not yet appeared on Niagara Region’s Find a Doctor page. Croteau expects his phone number and any online registration form to be posted within days.
Dr. Oluwole Adeniyan, who goes by Dr. Olu, will open Jarvis Medical Clinic on Jarvis Street at the beginning of November. The clinic will be associated with Pharmasave Mrs. O’s Pharmacy.
Both doctors are going through credentialing, the review a hospital completes before a physician can work there. Every doctor cleared widens the pool Niagara Health can call on to staff the urgent care centre at Douglas Memorial, which closes at 8 p.m. each night after physician shortages ended overnight service in 2023.
“Both of these two physicians that are coming in are excited and prepared to work at Douglas Memorial,” said Croteau. “They’re going through the credentialing process as we speak.”
Fort Erie’s return-of-service contract asks family doctors recruited to the town to support the hospital when they can, according to Croteau, who said the town treats that coverage as a priority for every incoming physician.
“These physicians would be willing to do shifts at the hospital if necessary,” said Croteau.
Niagara Region announced on August 19 that 10 family physicians had come to the region in the first half of 2026, along with region-wide Ministry of Health figures showing more than 9,000 residents newly connected to primary care, up from about 4,900 in the same period last year.
Both Fort Erie doctors were left out of that announcement because they arrived in the second half of the year, following the January-to-June window the Region measured, according to Croteau.
Forty-one doctors across Niagara were accepting patients when Croteau checked on Wednesday, a figure she called “an all-time high.”
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