New Brunswick Healthcare

• N.B. health-care workers applaud extra pay, coalition calls for pay equity

  New Brunswick health-care workers are celebrating adding $2.50 an hour to their pay. It comes as the New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity calls for equal pay for other workers

  Canada

  Apr 21, 2023
  
• ‘A desperate situation’: Injured N.B. man stranded in Florida due to full hospitals at home

  An elderly New Brunswick couple is stranded in Florida, after the husband was injured and couldn't be transferred home because a bed is not available here.

  Canada

  Apr 7, 2023
  
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• Military steps in to transport patient from Grand Manan, N.B.

  For the second time in two months, the Canadian Military has had to step in and provide Air Ambulance service to the island of Grand Manan in New Brunswick. 

  Health

  Feb 14, 2023
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• New Brunswick economy faces possibility of ‘doom and gloom’ in 2023

  'The shoe's going to drop, and people are basically going to run out of runway to stay afloat,' said Herb Emery of the University of New Brunswick.

  Economy

  Jan 3, 2023
• N.B. primary care wait-list grows by 1,000 following resignations

  Horizon Health Network confirmed two nurse practitioners resigned from their positions in Saint John, N.B.

  Health

  Nov 4, 2022
• New Brunswick says program recruiting internationally-trained nurses has been a success

  New Brunswick’s government says efforts to recruit nurses trained internationally have so far been successful – with 80 brought in to date and over 100 more on the way.

  Health

  Apr 11, 2022
• Horizon patients now allowed 1 visitor daily, masks required

  Only one visitor per day is allowed and all visitors must wear a mask in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to Horizon Health.

  Canada

  Jun 22, 2020
• 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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• Ambulatory services, day surgeries resume at Campbellton Regional Hospital after patient overload

  “The number of overflow patients has decreased significantly, which enables us to reopen certain services,” said the president and CEO of Vitalité Health Network.

  Health

  Dec 1, 2019
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• ‘I think it’s taking too long’ : Expectant mother concerned over delay in midwifery care in N.B.

  In December the provincial government announced the first regulated midwifery pilot practice would be in place in Fredericton in four to six months

  Health

  May 2, 2017