Photo of patient with visitors coming to his hospital bed's window

TALK AWAY, BUDDY

How Horizon health care providers ensured the connection between a father and son remained strong, despite visitor restrictions  Fred Caldwell's phone rings. He's in one of his finest dress shirts, his hair recently trimmed. His nurses wheel the 95-year-old patient...
Photo of Gillian Gillies, a patient representative at Horizon's Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton

TOOLS FOR TROUBLED TIMES

A sunny disposition. Wise beyond her years. A great listener. Empathetic. Professional. These are the words and phrases co-workers use to describe Gillian Gillies, a patient representative at Horizon's Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital (DECRH) in Fredericton. Although too demure...

A STITCH IN TIME

When Marjorie Guindon's little dog aroused her from sleep on a Sunday morning last June, she thought she was experiencing vertigo. By the time her son arrived, she was in partial paralysis from a stroke. Thanks to rehabilitation and determination,...