{"id":308922,"date":"2026-02-25T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/308922\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T05:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:00:29","slug":"health-clinic-expansion-aims-to-serve-all-unattached-patients-in-charlotte-county-municipality-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/308922\/","title":{"rendered":"Health clinic expansion aims to serve all unattached patients in Charlotte County municipality, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Fundy Health Centre in Blacks Harbour will receive $1.5 million in funding from the province to expand and hire more staff.<\/p>\n

Health Minister John Dornan said the expanded collaborative care clinic will be able to serve the remaining 1,138 patients in the southwestern municipality of Eastern Charlotte who are not yet connected with a primary-care provider.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first clinic that we are announcing that has a firm plan for attaching everybody, geographically, in this area,\u201d Dornan said during the announcement at the clinic on Monday. <\/p>\n

He said the facility already has four nurse practitioners but that funding would hire one more plus three health-care support staff.<\/p>\n

Premier Susan Holt said some clinics like the one in Blacks Harbour, just south of St. George, are \u201cbursting at the seams\u201d but that it would become the \u201chub of primary care for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should be able to get good, preventative primary care close to home,\u201d Holt said.<\/p>\n

\"AThe Fundy Health Centre in Blacks Harbour will be expanded and hire more staff, including a new nurse practitioner. (Mark Leger\/CBC)<\/p>\n

The Fundy Health Centre has existed for 25 years, something Dornan touted as a benefit.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have an affinity for here. It\u2019s not like it\u2019s a new building out in the middle of the woods. They know where it is and they know what you guys can do,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WATCH | \u2018No wonder you need some new space,\u2019 premier says of Fundy Health Centre:\"\"<\/p>\n

Fundy Health Centre to take on hundreds of patients with new provincial funding<\/p>\n

The province is contributing $1.5 million to expand a collaborative care clinic in Blacks Harbour. The funding will cover major renovations and the addition of new staff. <\/p>\n

This is the 12th collaborative care clinic the Holt government has announced, and Dornan said to expect more announcements. The clinics were a major part of Holt\u2019s campaign promises prior to being elected in 2024.<\/p>\n

How the government tallies clinics has been scrutinized<\/a>. Holt has been clear that not all of the clinics will be brand-new clinics. Of the 12 announced, nearly all of them are expansions of existing clinics with the government chipping in for additional staff or a larger space.<\/p>\n

The Eastern Charlotte clinic has expanded its team and the amount of patients it serves recently before this announcement, Dornan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don’t want anybody to burn themselves out, but we\u2019re finding that the environment that they work in is positive enough that they can take on more people successfully,” he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowth isn\u2019t just a word we\u2019re using today; it\u2019s part of this centre\u2019s DNA,\u201d said Horizon Health Network CEO Margaret Melanson.<\/p>\n

She said the clinic already serves over 4,000 patients and that staff have already begun recruitment for the new positions. The renovations are slated to be completed in 18 to 24 months, she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kate Burkholder has 50 years of experience as a nurse, 23 of which were as a nurse practitioner at the centre. She said the funding will directly translate to better patient care.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne theme that kept coming through loud and clear everyday was space,\u201d Burkholder said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do our best to adjust and make it work, but quite often there simply aren\u2019t enough rooms to provide all the services that we know our community needs.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-308922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}