Former ER doctor, leader of health agencies to head Nova Scotia Health Authority

A former emergency room doctor is taking on leadership of Nova Scotia’s health authority at what he says is a crucial point for the agency created in a merger four years ago.

In a release today, the Nova Scotia Health Authority announced Dr. Brendan Carr will start his work as chief executive officer effective Dec. 16 this year.

Carr served as vice-president of medicine with the former Capital District Health Authority in Halifax, and from 2007 until 2012 was a professor in the department of emergency medicine at Dalhousie University, before leaving to work in British Columbia.

He served as chief executive of the Vancouver Island Health Authority, now Island Health, and is currently president and chief executive officer of the William Osler Health System in Brampton and Etobicoke, Ont.

Carr says the health authority in Nova Scotia is at “critical point in its evolution,” as it plans for a $2-billion hospital reconstruction project and tries to deal with issues including doctor shortages and hospital crowding.

The 2015 decision to create the authority through a merger of nine districts has resulted in an agency that now operates with a $2.2-billion budget and has 23,400 employees.

Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter

© 2019 The Canadian Press

Source: Read Full Article

Related posts:
  1. Atlantic Canada could lead effort to ease mobility for doctors, nurses between provinces
  2. The permanent handle to Aspirin increases the risk of internal bleeding
  3. Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying.
  4. High blood pressure: Eating this tasty snack proven to lower your reading
  5. New Brunswick government to launch public consultations on mandatory immunization bill