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The Executive of C.W. Wiebe Medical Centre are happy to announce Karen-Denise Cyr joined the team as our new Executive Director, effective May 1, 2024.

Karen-Denise comes to her new role with 25 years of healthcare administration experience. In her previous role as Provincial Director, Emergency and Continuity Management with Shared Health Manitoba, she lead a team that works in partnership with interdisciplinary clinical programs within Shared Health, Regional Health Authorities as well as leaders in municipal, provincial, federal and non-government health and social services agencies to ensure continuous provision of health services during emergencies and disasters. Karen has experience leading projects that impact workforce, finance, logistics, operations, planning, communications, change management and risk management across acute, community and long-term healthcare settings and provincial services. Karen-Denise also has a deep familiarity with not for profit sector organizations and community engagement; having volunteered and worked in Emergency Management, Volunteer Management and other capacity building roles in a number of community Health and Social Services organizations.

Excerpted from Pembina Valley Online:

Dr. Chandy Jacob, simply known as “Doctor Jacob”, to many, has seen healthcare advance and adapt in the Pembina Valley for over 50 years. In that time he’s personally seen the team of local doctors grow from four to 45 in Winkler.

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After a half-century in the field, Jacob’s tried and true mantra remains, if you add more services in the rural areas people benefit and the government saves money, “providing specialist care in a regional centre is not only better service for people, the government saves money because the cost is less than providing the same service in the city… we’re not asking for the moon, but add some services outside Winnipeg.”

“People need to speak up, we deserve better care,” he says, adding while doctors have some weight when it comes to advocacy, the public has the true political power.

And he says more specialists, like himself, are interested in settling outside urban areas. “If you put the services here, the specialists will move here… but people need to ask for it.”

Jacob celebrated 51 years serving Winkler and area this year.

Click to read the full article on Pembina Valley Online.