Greg Doiron News Today

A pilot project working to improve the time it takes for potential stroke patients to receive a Computed Tomography (CT) scan after they arrive at the emergency department in New Brunswick has been successful in its early stages, according to Horizon Health.

Most New Brunswick patients waiting a year or longer for hip or knee replacements received their surgeries in the last 15 months.

A mother now living in New Brunswick after moving from Ontario says she recently had to wait more than 12 hours to have her sick baby seen by a doctor at the Moncton Hospital.

Social Development Minister Jill Green is expected to determine "next steps" today for the two Saint John hospitals she granted "critical state" status to earlier this month, fast-tracking their patients on the nursing home waitlist.

A high number patients, high bed occupancy rates and staffing challenges have made for a long wait in some New Brunswick emergency rooms, and one closure, over the holidays.

Horizon Health Network hopes to hire about seven sexual assault nurse examiners in the coming weeks for program that was criticized for lack of staff.

New Brunswicks Horizon Health Network has announced several changes to its sexual assault nurse examiner program, including a new name, that will help ensure consistent access and improved care to sexual assault and intimate partner violence victims.

The Horizon Health Network has announced dramatic changes to its sexual assault nurse examiner program, including plans to increase staffing, develop a provincial education strategy, form a provincial governance committee, and a rebranding as forensic nurse examiner services.

Horizon Health has changed the name of its Sexual Assault Examiner program to the Forensic Nurse Examiner prog...

The number of people seeking sexual assault nurse examiner services at Horizon hospitals is on track to exceed the past two years, while the number of nurses trained to perform them is dropping.