Board members, staff and supporters of the Sackville Memorial Hospital Foundation gathered last week for the launch of a new capital campaign in support of equipment for the hospital’s day surgery programs, with an ambitious goal of raising $225,000.
The Horizon Health Network is the provincial agency which delivers and oversees health care throughout New Brunswick. Horizon’s executive director for the Sackville and Moncton hospitals, Christa Wheeler-Thorne, was at the launch event, and CHMA took the opportunity to check in with her about the current state of the Sackville hospital.
Wheeler-Thorne says the Sackville emergency department “is on our agenda. And we are looking at how we can incrementally expand the ER [service hours.]” She says staffing is the key to being able to expand those hours into the evening, and then “eventually overnight, if that’s the resource we have, the capacity we have.”
