The province of New Brunswick is putting $7.8 million towards three new sites for collaborative care clinics in the province, and Sackville is one. The province says Horizon has allocated $766,000 of the funding to operating the Tantramar primary care clinic which it opened in September 2023.
During a legislative committee hearing last week, Health Minister Bruce Fitch shared the funding news under questioning by Memramcook-Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton.
Mitton told CHMA she had advocated for the funding of the Tantramar clinic in the lead up to the budget’s release, and is “hopeful that this will move things along a lot faster.” The current clinic operates just a few days per week with two part-time doctors on staff, one of whom is near retirement.
