Carleton North health-care clinic gets $2.1M to take 800 patients off waitlist

Rachel Cave · CBC News

· Posted: May 16, 2025 5:14 PM EDT | Last Updated: 27 minutes ago

Another collaborative attraction session has officially launched successful New Brunswick, advancing 1 of the cardinal commitments made by the Holt authorities to summation entree to superior wellness care.

The Carleton North session successful Florenceville-Bristol volition person $2.1 cardinal successful 2025-2026 to prosecute much health-care professionals to enactment successful a squad with Dr. Stuart Lockhart.

Lockhart has been vocal astir wanting to reimagine household medicine distant from the accepted — and often overwhelmed — solo household doc practice.    

New hires volition see nursing unit and administrative enactment for the 2 full-time household physicians and 3 part-time physicians already connected site.

Health-care roles specified arsenic a diabetes educator, societal workers, physiotherapists and respiratory therapists volition besides beryllium added implicit the coming months.

It's expected this volition alteration the session to instrumentality 800 patients disconnected the waitlist, successful summation to the 1,360 patients already matched with a doc since the session opened 2 years ago. 

"This is simply a bully day," said Lockhart, who returned to New Brunswick from Saskatchewan to transportation connected the bequest of his father, uncle and grandfather, who besides practise medicine successful the area.  

Carleton North is the 4th collaborative attraction session announcement by the provincial authorities since the Liberals nether Susan Holt were elected successful November. It follows erstwhile session announcements successful Fredericton North, the Acadian Peninsula and Sackville.

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"These are New Brunswicker's priorities," Holt said. "To get large entree to wellness attraction adjacent to home, successful the communities they love, not being sent down the roadworthy an hr for different mode to get their health-care needs met."

Holt said today's announcement brings the full fiscal committedness to established health-care teams to $30 million, including the $2.1 cardinal for Carleton North.  

Purpose-built successful 2023 for a health-care team, the Carleton North Clinic received enactment from the community, including the Rotary Club of Florenceville, the McCain Foundation, and the Carleton North Foundation. 

"If determination was ever a lawsuit survey for palmy private-public partnerships, this would beryllium it," said Lockhart. 

Health curate Dr. John Dornan said involvement is rapidly increasing successful the squad attack to household medicine. 

He said more than 60 groups of physicians successful the state person expressed interest. 

"I'd similar to accidental this was our idea," Dornan said. "It wasn't. This was Stuart Lockhart's idea. And earlier we formed authorities helium was already doing what we knew needed to beryllium done."

Dornan said collaborative attraction volition assistance the state pull desperately needed healthcare providers by offering amended work-life balance. 

Because the session is staffed by a team, it removes the load from 1 doc to be to each health-care request and beryllium connected tract for each visit.

The Horizon Health Network aims to person each 10,000 patients successful the country assigned to the clinic's squad by 2029.