Presently, the hospital is diversifying its
service portfolio to fill the gaps in special-
ties.
“One thing that we discovered here lo-
cally, and this is why health care is a large
sector and an exciting sector, is that the
innovation that exists inside of health care
can provide a revenue stream in order to
take care of the gaps that exist in fund-
ing as opposed to fundraising all the time,”
said Jeanine Lassaline-Berglund, the mu-
nicipality’s economic development officer.
The fourth largest sector is tourism, fol-
lowed by small businesses and entrepre-
neurships, which serve as the backbone of
this community. A few large enterprises,
like Highbury Canco and Highland Mush-
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