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.