Designed to serve: the New Brunswick Extra-Mural Hospital

I see the scope for the Extra-Mural Hospital as a component of community care and of ambulatory care that is not yet nearly realized. Many opportunities lie ahead if we continue to approach them in a sensitive manner and if we remain cost conscious but patient centered. We must continue to work harmoniously with all other contributors to the health care system and strive to achieve our self-appointed role of being a catalyst to bring about the ideal continuum of care that will be cost and care effective.