About Us

Horizon Health Network (Horizon) is proud of its dedicated team of health care professionals who are focused on delivering safe and quality care to our patients, clients, families and communities. Horizon is a great place to work, as people are the heart of our organization, and the success of Horizon is a direct result of our employees’ dedication, professionalism, and commitment.

Horizon is New Brunswick’s largest regional health authority. We deliver a wide range of health and community services in both English and French, offer eight provincial programs, and provide specialized tertiary care to patients within the province and from Prince Edward Island and northern Nova Scotia.

Guided by our strategic plan, Transforming Health Care Through Innovation, we remain committed to continuous improvement through collaboration, integration and coordination of our health care system as we provide quality, safe, person-centred care. As our strategy is implemented, we will continuously measure and monitor progress against our goals to keep us accountable to the people we serve and ensure we stay on track. Outcomes will be reported regularly using a public Performance Dashboard.

Horizon has more than 15,000 employees and 1,300 active physicians and an annual budget of approximately $1.8 billion.

Horizon’s partnerships with more than 2,800 volunteers, 17 foundations and 14 auxiliaries and alumnae are integral to our success in delivering quality, safe, and compassionate health care.

Horizon’s Board of Directors is made up of seven members, appointed by the Minister of Health, who bring a wide range of skills, experience, and perspectives to help support and strengthen care for New Brunswickers. In addition, three non-voting members – including Horizon’s President and CEO, and representatives from our medical and professional advisory committees – provide important insight from front-line health care providers.

The Saint John Regional Hospital is a university hospital centre and serves as the administrative centre of an integrated network of university hospitals, with The Moncton Hospital, Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital and Miramichi Regional Hospital designated as university affiliated hospitals. Partnerships with post-secondary institutions contribute to a collaborative and dynamic environment promoting a culture of research and learning to support excellence in patient care.

Every year, Horizon partners with 200 educational partners to coordinate more than 6,000 placements for students from various medical, nursing, and allied health care programs, and welcomes dozens of medical residents.

We are home to Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick and Memorial University clerkship programs based in Saint John and delivered in Fredericton, Miramichi, Moncton, and Waterville. We also offer a variety of collaborative education programs, including;

• The Horizon Pharmacy Residency Program, accredited by the Canadian Pharmacy Residency Board
• The Clinical Psychology Residency Program in the Fredericton accredited by the Canadian Psychological Association
• The Moncton Hospital Post Graduate Dietetic Internship Program, accredited by Dietitians of Canada
• School of Radiography at our Moncton and Saint John hospitals, in collaboration with the University of New Brunswick, accredited by Accreditation Canada’s EQual program

Our Services

Horizon operates 12 hospitals and more than 100 medical facilities, clinics, and offices, focused on delivering quality and safe care to our patients, clients, and their families. To best meet the needs of New Brunswickers, we remain flexible to sustain, grow, and adapt our facilities and services, and always strive to provide quality and safe care in a timely manner. Some of our services are provided in tandem with Vitalité Health Network and our other valued health partners. From primary care to acute care and specialized services, we work towards excellent people-centred care outcomes, which we achieve through collaboration, integration, and coordination of our health system.

Acute care hospitals include Horizon’s four regional hospitals, which offer a wide range of services, including emergency departments, labs and diagnostics, outpatient clinics, surgeries, inpatient admissions, support and therapy services, and many others. Care provided at eight community hospitals is supplemented by specialized services provided by regional hospitals visiting clinics and consultations.

Horizon is establishing Family Health Teams to enhance the delivery of primary care for New Brunswickers. This collaborative model has been proven to provide better access and an improved patient experience by bringing together different health care professionals to provide the right health care, from the right practitioner, at the right time. At the same time, Horizon’s community health centres are undergoing improvements and transformations to increase access and optimize capacity to serve patients. Community health centres provide a range of primary health care services delivered by physicians, nursing professionals, allied health professionals, and support staff, including X-rays, bloodwork, and community programs.

Addiction and Mental Health Services provide a range of services for individuals, children, youth, adults of all ages and family members affected by substance misuse, harmful gambling and/or mental health issues. Services may include individual counselling, group counselling and specialized treatment programs such as detoxification, opioid replacement therapy, and short-term or long-term rehabilitation. Additionally, Horizon provides several specialized community services, such as mobile mental services, which provide timely and well-coordinated responses to people who are experiencing a mental health crisis and require assessment or intervention.

Our community health teams provide public health and population health services, working to address the needs of our clients, families, and communities through a unified, proactive, and upstream approach. These teams partner with communities to advance health equity and to build healthy, connected communities through a focus on prevention, education, and health promotion.

Horizon provides major critical and trauma services and is responsible for unique programs such as:

Our Communities

Our province has a rich heritage of Indigenous, Anglophone and Francophone communities and is home to newcomers from around the world. Click here to learn more about our communities.

Horizon provides health care to Indigenous people living in what is now known as New Brunswick. Traditionally this area was a part of the Wabanaki territory. We are working to improve services for Indigenous individuals living within and outside First Nation communities. Click here to learn more about Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq First Nation communities within New Brunswick and Indigenous Health at Horizon. 

Our Values

Our values shape the way we collaborate and care for our patients, clients, families, communities, and each other. We foster a welcoming environment for all, including 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, through our shared commitment to delivering care that is inclusive, responsive, and community minded.

At the heart of Horizon’s ongoing commitment to excellence in health care delivery are its guiding principles of quality and safety, which are the pillars of our health system. From primary to tertiary and specialized services, we continue to endeavour towards excellent patient-, client- and family-centred care outcomes, which we achieve through collaboration, integration and coordination of our health system.

Our Health Partners

Through collaboration with government, other agencies and organizations, we will advocate for major organizational change and secure partnership opportunities to enhance the care provided to New Brunswickers.

The concept of publicly funded health care is complex. Dramatic changes will take place in the near future in federal/provincial funding support. Changes in the factors influencing costs in the public system (e.g. demographics), and most important, federal philosophy towards taking on a reduced role in regulating a purely provincial responsibility have brought us to an opportunity where we can create a new approach that works for New Brunswick. Our new design model must be practical and fit the circumstances of time and place in each situation, within a broad framework that provides guidance.