2nd doctor-owned cataract surgery centre opens in New Brunswick – New Brunswick | 24CA News
Renous’s Dale Hallihan was the primary affected person to obtain cataract surgical procedure on the lately opened Miramichi Cataract Surgical Center in Miramichi.
“It’s excellent, it’s good… It was just so fast,” she stated in an interview on Monday.
Horizon Health Network’s interim president and CEO Margaret Melanson stated the brand new clinic would relieve stress on surgical procedure wait-lists.
“By partnering with the Miramichi Surgical Cataract Center, we are tripling the number of cataract surgeries being completed on a weekly basis in this region,” she stated at a press convention.
The pilot mission operates similarly to a household physician’s workplace.
Dr. Nir Shoham-Hazon owns the clinic and serves as medical director in collaboration with Horizon Health Network.
The medical doctors within the clinic work on a fee-for-service mannequin, billing the province for his or her companies.
All companies are lined by Medicare.
The first doctor-owned cataract clinic was opened within the fall of 2022 in Bathurst.
Health Minister Bruce Fitch stated this system had been expanded to Miramichi as a result of the federal government has “seen the results in Bathurst where the wait time has been reduced by 67 per cent,” noting that New Brunswick’s getting older inhabitants has a excessive demand for cataract surgical procedures.
Fitch denied the characterization of each of those clinics as being non-public, telling reporters in French that sufferers “would be paying with a Medicare card and not a credit card” at a press convention.
He declined to substantiate whether or not extra clinics in the identical vein would open elsewhere within the province.
The centre has the capability to carry out as much as 2,500 cataract surgical procedures yearly, which Horizon representatives will hope release working house on the Miramichi Regional Hospital.
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