Take a look inside the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with a Horizon RN July 6, 2022 Sarah is a registered nurse (RN) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NNICU) at Horizon’s Saint John Regional Hospital (SJRH). She’s been an RN for 10 years, spending the last four with the hospital’s tiniest and most vulnerable patients. We...
Get to know Horizon’s Regional Manager of Indigenous Health Programming June 21, 2022 June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day, a day to recognize, appreciate, respect, and celebrate First Nations, Inuit and Metis people of Canada. Meet Aaron, a Wolastoqiyik woman from Sitansisk (St. Mary’s First Nation), who is Horizon’s Regional Manager of...
The evolution of radiation treatment options for Prostate Cancer June 16, 2022 From Dr. Holly Campbell, BSc, MD, FRCPC As a radiation oncologist, I am never bored. I have the privilege of working with a great team of smart and motivated people and the privilege of meeting many interesting patients and their...
Horizon physiotherapist educates patients with appropriate exercises May 31, 2022 Meet Chastity, a physiotherapist at Horizon’s Miramichi Regional Hospital (MRH). She has worked as a physiotherapist since 2004, has been part of the Horizon team at MRH since 2015, and has worked in the New Brunswick Inter-professional Spine Assessment and...
New Brunswick implements unique program enabling hospital pharmacists to prescribe Paxlovid to COVID-19 patients May 17, 2022 By Doug Doucette, Regional Director of Pharmacy and Dr. Susan Brien, VP of Medical, Academic and Research Affairs When the federal government announced in January 2022 that Paxlovid, an antiviral medication, would be available for people experiencing mild or moderate...
Small actions make a big impact: Meet an EVS worker keeping our hospitals clean and safe April 19, 2022 Meet Aaron, an environmental services (EVS) worker at Horizon’s Saint John Regional Hospital (SJRH). During the COVID-19 pandemic, Aaron saw the stress and pressure put on health care workers and wanted to help make a difference, so he applied and...
Understanding Obesity: Impacts of Weight Bias and Discrimination February 25, 2022 By Amy Webb, Psychology Intern at Horizon's Stan Cassidy Centre for Rehabilitation "In our society, we look at obesity as a character or behavioural flaw." - Mary Forhan, PhD Obesity is an oversimplified and stigmatized topic. We live in a society...
Horizon’s look back at 2021 December 30, 2021 How can we possibly recap 2021? It was a year of ups and downs, highs and lows, love and loss. New Brunwickers lived through an entire calendar year of the COVID-19 pandemic, where the only constant was change. We're coming...
Top 5 things parents need to know about children and COVID-19 vaccination October 19, 2021 With the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, the enhanced Public Health guidelines, and the announcement that a vaccine will soon be available for children aged five to 11, many families have questions about COVID-19 vaccination for children. Dr. Chelsey Ellis,...
Strength in Numbers: New consortium driving precision medicine in Atlantic Canada August 25, 2021 Bryn Robinson is Horizon Health Network's Research Engagement Manager As we strive to deliver more personalized care for each patient, precision medicine will have an important role to play. In cancer care, precision medicine means using leading edge tools to identify a person's specific...