Our Team

We are pleased to be sharing our 2020 – Year in Review and what an interesting year it has been. This year has been one of challenges, change, and resilience.

Our amazing Executive Director Trudy along with the Brighten Group Staff and Volunteers really rose to the challenge, showing incredible levels of innovation and perseverance. Shutdowns and limited traffic in the hospital proved challenging for not only our retail operations, but the patients, families and staff of the Regional Hospital. Our Board, Staff, and Volunteers stayed true to our purpose and stepped up to maintain the highest level of service, all while keeping our people safe.

We are incredibly proud to share with you, highlights and achievements from the year and what we have given back as an organization to the hospital community.

The year 2020 will certainly go down in our history books as one of our most challenging. Facing a global pandemic has been incredibly hard on the world, and our community. In particular, Patients, Families and our brave and selfless Front Line Workers have faced some of their greatest challenges.

Having our retail operations and staff in the center of the SJRH has been difficult to say the least. With the exception of a 6 week closure, we managed to stay open and maintain the services that our patrons and supporters have come to depend on.

I am incredibly proud of my team, who came into work through it all, always offering kindness and a smile to those who needed it most.

While we were unable to do all that we had set out to in 2020, we stayed true to our mission and mandate to serve the Patients, Families and Staff at the Saint John Regional Hospital.

We look forward to continuing the work we are so passionate about, for many more years to come. We couldn’t do what we do, without you.

Click here to contact Trudy.