Health Minister Visits Uptown Hospital

The provincial Health Minister giving kudos to Saint Joseph's Hospital for its patient-centered, pro-active approach to healthcare.

As part of a fact-finding tour of provincial hospitals, Madeleine Dube paying a visit to the uptown hospital yesterday.

Dube says the doctors, nurses, and nurse practitioners at Saint Joseph's are getting out into the community and using the resources that are there--and that's something she'd like to see happening in the rest of the province.

After the upcoming healthcare summit, the Health Minister says they'll be making policy decisions based on their observations.