A new president and chief executive officer for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has been appointed to replace the retiring Dr. Brian Postl.
Arlene Wilgosh — currently the province’s longest-serving Deputy Minister of Health — will assume the role March 22, the WRHA said Tuesday. Following a national search, Wilgosh was chosen for her vast experience [...]

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The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority said Friday two adults were recently hospitalized as the result of tainted cocaine.
The WRHA said the two individuals were suffering from ‘neutropenia’ (also known as agranulocytosis), a serious illness that impacts patients’ immune systems, leaving them unable to fight off infections. If left untreated, the result of [...]

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is looking for public input on two interior design concepts for the new Health Sciences Centre’s Women’s Hospital.
Until February 14, Manitobans can view the designs online and then take a short survey.
“The goal is to have people focus on how they want their hospital to feel; it’s not about the [...]

An outbreak of bloodstream infections caused by Serratia marcescens at the Seven Oaks General Hospital has forced the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority to issue a public advisory.
The outbreak is in the emergency department and was first discovered Thursday afternoon.
The infection can cause fevers and chills, which promptly resolve with antibiotic therapy. A total of 40 [...]

Misericordia Health Centre’s 14th annual Angel Squad Campaign will begin today collecting donations from passing motorists during the morning rush hour.
From 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Tuesday to Thursday, the squad will be taking over the Maryland Bridge wearing gowns, wings and halos. The idea is to make donating as easy as possible, and therefore, [...]

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority will be operating four clinics during the final week of mass H1N1 immunizations beginning today. With a recent drop in visitor turnouts, the province announced recently that the shot will now be available at doctors’ offices.
The following three clinics will run from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. until Thursday, and [...]

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is scaling back the number of H1N1 flu shot clinics in the city for a second time.
All eight remaining clinics will be open until the end of this week, and then only four will be open next week.

St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church (2255 Grant Ave.) — Final Week for this [...]

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The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority will scale back its mass H1N1 immunization clinics beginning Monday.
Earlier in the week, the WRHA said a select number of locations were not receiving the traffic volume as others.
Because of that, only the following eight locations will now be available to administer the H1N1 vaccine:

St. Demetrios Greek [...]

Manitoba Health said Thursday that they plan on moving away from the mass H1N1 immunization clinics shortly and allowing doctors to vaccinate patients at their office. A specific date on when that would happen wasn’t provided. The WRHA said a number of their mass immunization clinics are not performing as well as others and will [...]

The emergency department at Seven Oaks General Hospital is the first in the city to be part of a new WRHA pilot project to show patients expected wait times.
The new electronic information board draws on up-to-date information from the emergency department information system to provide details on the number of patients in the waiting room, [...]

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has created a Facebook page to help keep citizens updated with information surrounding the organization.
The WRHA says the page is meant to provide real time updates on events and news occurring in the Winnipeg Health Region. Right now, the page lists H1N1 information, such as vaccination clinic locations and news [...]

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Earlier today, we told you about 500 doses of the H1N1 vaccine being wasted in Toronto over the weekend due to expiration. Several media inquiries has made the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority report how many doses of the vaccine have been wasted locally.
“Approximately 0.22 per cent of the total amount of administered [...]