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Published Dec 31, 2025 • Last updated 9 hours ago • 2 minute read
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Horizon Health Network has announced the location of an expanded collaborative care clinic to serve more Charlotte County patients. The expanded clinic will open at St. Stephen’s former Sobeys grocery store on King Street under the St. Stephen Family Health Team banner. SUBMITTED/HORIZON HEALTH NETWORKArticle content
An expanded collaborative care clinic for Charlotte County will open at the site of the former Sobeys grocery store on King Street in St. Stephen.
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In a social media post, Horizon Health Network recently revealed the future location of what will be a 12,000-square-foot medical clinic – a project first announced by the regional health authority and the Holt government this fall.
In late November, the Holt government pledged $3.6 million to expand the Charlotte County Collaborative Wellness Centre, which is currently housed at the local hospital.
At that time, Premier Susan Holt indicated the centre would move out of the hospital and into its own space in the community. However, she couldn’t reveal the location at that point due to ongoing lease negotiations, although she noted that her government had changed policies around leasing spaces of more than 5,000 square feet to accommodate the centre.
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“We want to make sure that this community has that dedicated space, we want to free up this hospital,” Holt told reporters gathered at the Charlotte County Hospital in November.
In its recent community update posted online, Horizon indicated that space planning and renovations will begin at the centre’s future site in the new year.
“The existing clinic at Charlotte County Hospital will continue to operate as usual, with no interruptions, while renovations to the new space are underway,” Horizon noted in its update.
Holt previously told reporters that the target was to open the new space in early 2026.
Once opened, the operation will be known as the St. Stephen Family Health Team.
The new site is expected to help the team expand services, recruit more health-care professionals and take more unattached patients off the primary care waitlist, according to Horizon.
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Opened in 2018, the Charlotte County Collaborative Wellness Centre has added seven staff members in the last year alone and taken 310 new patients off the primary care waitlist.
More than 2,000 patients have been served by the centre’s new access clinic, which has provided non-urgent appointments since February for those without a family doctor.
The expansion of the Charlotte County centre was the ninth project announced under the Holt government’s collaborative care initiative.
In early December, the Holt government surpassed its target of establishing and supporting 10 collaborative care clinics in 2025. At that time, Saint John’s North End Wellness Centre became the 11th clinic to be funded through the Liberal government initiative.
During the 2024 provincial election, the Liberals campaigned on a promise to create “at least” 30 collaborative care clinics in its mandate if elected.
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