Tag Archives: Horizon Health Network

Sackville mayor calls for health summit as Horizon CEO says rural hospital cuts are still needed

Posted on July 2, 2020 by

Sackville Mayor John Higham is speaking out again after Horizon Health CEO Karen McGrath said cuts to services at six rural hospitals, including Sackville’s, are still needed. During the regional health authority’s board meeting last week, McGrath seemed determined to … Continue reading →

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Sackville Town Council calls for heads to roll over plan to cut rural hospitals

Posted on March 3, 2020 by

Sackville Town Council is joining other municipalities in calling on New Brunswick Premier Higgs to fire Ted Flemming, the provincial health minister and to remove Karen McGrath and Gilles Lanteigne, the Chief Executive Officers of the Horizon and Vitalité Health … Continue reading →

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Two stories about healthcare cuts and Horizon CEO Karen McGrath

Posted on February 22, 2020 by

“I’ve always wanted to be a CEO of a hospital,” Karen McGrath told the Advertiser, the newspaper in the small town of Grand Falls-Windsor as she reminisced in January 2013 about her six years as Chief Executive Officer at Newfoundland and … Continue reading →

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Commentary: Community hospitals have ‘a duty to the living’

Posted on February 19, 2020 by

by Alexander (Sandy) Burnett Horizon Health CEO Karen McGrath seemed perplexed last week. Faced with questions from the public and the press about planned reductions in service at six small-town hospitals across New Brunswick, her standard answer suggested a serious … Continue reading →

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Horizon CEO says she understands outcry over hospital cuts, but the changes are needed

Posted on February 15, 2020 by

The President and CEO of the Horizon Health Network says she recognizes that people in small communities and rural areas are upset over the health-care changes announced this week including the closure of overnight emergency rooms starting on March 11. … Continue reading →

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Sackville hospital cuts an attack on rural people, says local doctor

Posted on February 11, 2020 by

A family doctor in Sackville says he’s both sad and angry after today’s announcements about extensive cutbacks in patient services at the Sackville Memorial Hospital. Allison Dysart was referring to the elimination of day surgeries and overnight emergency services along … Continue reading →

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