NB Healthcare

• Kent County, N.B., residents concerned over temporary loss of acute care beds at hospital

  Kent County residents are questioning a plan to convert acute-care beds at a local hospital to long-term or palliative care beds as New Brunswick wrestles health service shortages.

  Canada

  Jan 30
  
• New Brunswick Medical Society seeks more funding for province’s health-care system

  Paula Keating, president of the New Brunswick Medical Society and a family doctor for over 30 years, said many health-care workers in the province are burned out. 

  Canada

  Oct 5, 2023
  
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• Pilot project will allow N.B. pharmacists to treat some chronic conditions

  A New Brunswick program will allow pharmacists to assess and treat patients with several chronic conditions in a move that should help take stress off the primary care system.

  Health

  Jul 26, 2023
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• Know a doctor? A N.B. health authority will pay you $2,000 if you can recruit for them

  On Thursday, the Horizon Health Network announced it will be offering a lump sum to anyone able to successfully refer a physician to work for the N.B. health authority.

  Health

  Jul 20, 2023
• N.B. spent the least money per capita on public health care in 2020, new data shows

  Most of the private-sector spending was on medication, according to the data the New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC) published on its website.

  Health

  May 25, 2023
• New Brunswick invests in Université de Moncton to expand its nursing program

  The provincial government allocated funding for the Université de Moncton to expand its nursing program from three seats to 12 seats.

  Health

  May 8, 2023
• N.B. man says wife now needs wheelchair after 9-month hospital stay

  Frank Darlow of New Brunswick said his wife, who has dementia, spent so much time lying down in hospital while waiting for a long-term care spot that she now needs a wheelchair.

  Canada

  Jul 26, 2022
• N.B. premier says roll-out of now-cancelled health-care reforms ‘not well thought out’

  'I am concerned by gaps that have been identified in the plan,' said New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs about the decision to halt healthcare reforms.

  Health

  Feb 17, 2020
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• Services at Moncton Hospital ER return to normal following weekend of overcapacity

  According to the hospital's chief of staff, Dr. Ken Gillespie, patients had been waiting 12 hours on Saturday and Sunday.

  Health

  Jan 6, 2020