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Harry Showdra of Swan River, MB has been appointed the Vice-Chair of the Western Regional Health Authority<\/p>\nHarry Showdra of Swan River, MB has been appointed the Vice-Chair of the Western Regional Health Authority<\/p>\n
Province of Manitoba Media Release |<\/p>\n
Permanent boards of directors have been named for Manitoba’s five new, merged regional health authorities (RHAs), Health Minister Theresa Oswald announced today.<\/p>\n
“We are continuing to move forward with focusing on what matters most to Manitobans and, with five regional health authorities rather than 11, the administrative savings will be reinvested into supporting front-line care,” said Oswald. “The new boards now in place for regional health authorities have been selected to ensure an appropriate balance of skills, experience, diversity and geographic representation, and will focus on ensuring a smooth transition by streamlining the merged corporate operations while avoiding disruptions to front-line care.”<\/p>\n
The chairs of the new boards are:<\/p>\n
* Doug Lauvstad, Northern RHA;
\n* Margaret MacDonald, Western RHA;
\n* Denise Harder, Southern RHA;
\n* Diane Kelly, Interlake-Eastern RHA; and
\n* Dr. John Wade, the new, merged Winnipeg-Churchill health region.<\/p>\n
All board members were selected from those who served on the previous 11 RHA boards. Through the merger process, 81 RHA board positions have been eliminated, Oswald said.<\/p>\n
The new boards have taken over from temporary interim boards that were in place for less than a month to oversee the establishment of the newly merged RHAs, begin merging the corporate structures and appointing the new chief executive officers.<\/p>\n
The permanent boards will look for ways to streamline administration, focus on provincial priorities, such as ensuring all Manitobans have access to a family doctor, and work to strengthen local community involvement in health care, the minister said.<\/p>\n
Western Regional Health Authority Board Members:<\/strong> Harry Showdra of Swan River, MB has been appointed the Vice-Chair of the Western Regional Health Authority Province of Manitoba Media Release | Permanent boards of directors have been named for Manitoba’s five new, merged regional health authorities (RHAs), Health Minister Theresa Oswald announced today. “We are continuing to move forward with focusing on what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-13086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(combining Assiniboine\/Parkland\/Brandon)<\/em>
\nMargaret MacDonald, chair \u2013 Brandon
\nHarry Showdra, vice-chair \u2013 Swan River
\nBarry French \u2013 Souris
\nDean Dietrich \u2013 Neepawa
\nCatheryn Pedersen \u2013 Holland
\nReginald Buss \u2013 Sandy Lake
\nTerry Johnson \u2013 Virden
\nJonathon Murray \u2013 Brandon
\nAlison McNeill Hordern \u2013 Brandon
\nPerry Roque \u2013 Brandon
\nSharon Basaraba \u2013 Gilbert Plains
\nAlex Grimaldi \u2013 Dauphin
\nDiane Ironstand \u2013 Shortdale
\nGwynn Ketel \u2013 Pine River
\nRita Blaikie \u2013 Brandon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"