New website promotes health care jobs in Sackville May 19, 2022 In April, the Memramcook-Tantramar Rural Health Action Group announced the launch of Sackville’s new website designed to recruit nurses, doctors, and other health care professionals to work at Horizon’s Sackville Memorial Hospital. Horizon is proud to have collaborated on this...
Horizon’s SJRH Oncology Department home to the first Paxman machines in Atlantic Canada, a technology to help prevent hair loss during chemotherapy treatment April 28, 2022 A Horizon husband and wife duo are supporting cancer patients in the Saint John area with new technology that hits close to home. Dr. Ashley O'Brien, anesthesiologist at Horizon’s Saint John Regional Hospital (SJRH) and his wife Mari O’Brien, registered...
BREATHING EASIER November 30, 2021 Horizon's UPSTREAM program improves quality of life for patients living with COPD An estimated 1.6 million Canadians live with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), yet health care providers believe that almost as many have COPD and don't know it. November...
ONLINE AND READY TO HELP November 9, 2021 Recently diagnosed with diabetes, a patient learns to manage his condition thanks to Horizon staff who are readily available online to help Stewart Gilbert had a hunch that something was wrong. Over the years, a few blood tests detected some...
THE PHYSIO KNEE GYM: WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS October 4, 2021 Louis and Joanne Babineau at their home in Dieppe. Louis had his left knee replaced in April of 2021 and has been working at physio in the Knee Gym at Horizon's The Moncton Hospital since. A total knee replacement is...
STEPPING FORWARD August 31, 2021 A Miramichi woman walked into the hospital in the morning for surgery and walked out the SAME DAY with a new knee - thanks to a new innovative knee replacement surgery. You would never know Colleen, 66, was ever slowed...
Horizon ICU nurse, vaccinated by her mother, is first health care provider in NB to receive COVID-19 vaccine December 19, 2020 Nicolette Noel, registered nurse in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Horizon's Miramichi Regional Hospital, is New Brunswick's and Horizon's first health care worker to receive the COVID-19 vaccination on Saturday, Dec. 19. Nicolette's mother, Nanette Noel, a Public Health...
BEATING THE ODDS TOGETHER : LIVING WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES December 9, 2020 How a Sussex man and his wife plan to celebrate his 60-year diabetes diagnoses When Tony Dunn received his 50-year living with diabetes medal from Boston's Joslin Diabetes Centre he was already living well past his life expectancy. Just after...
Meet Campobello Island’s nurse practitioner November 13, 2020 Chris Scalabrin In August 2020, Horizon’s Campobello Island Health Centre (CIHC) welcomed Nurse Practitioner (NP) Christopher Scalabrin to the team. On Campobello Island, the health centre team offers primary health care programs and services to Islanders with the main goal...
Harvey: A rural community’s response to COVID-19 November 7, 2020 By Sheryl Pepin, community developer for the Harvey and McAdam areas As a community developer for Horizon Health Network, I have the pleasure of working in the community I have called home almost my entire life. Harvey is where I...