Prince Rupert Site Of NH Board Meeting

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There will be a new component to Northern Health’s Board meeting in Prince Rupert today.

NH Director of Communications, Mark Karjaluoto, says directors decided at the board meeting in March to hold roundtable discussions when they gather outside of Prince George.

Of the six meetings each year, three are held in communities other than Prince George.  But Karjaluoto says, due to the number of communities covered by the health region, it’s been three-and-a-half years since Board members met in Prince Rupert.

"What we’ve booked is a community roundtable - so we’ve invited municipal government leaders, some health advocate around here, a provincial elected official, the regional hospital district and others to sit down with us,” says the NH rep.  “We’ll take them through a presentation of kind of what we’re doing and, basically, answer any questions they have, so we have a better opportunity to meet face-to-face and to address, hopefully, their concerns.”

Today’s board meeting will be the first for new Northern Health CEO, Cathy Ulrich, who took the post after Malcolm Maxwell accepted an administrative position at a hospital in Ontario.

Also on today’s agenda:

• a financial update
• discussion on NH’s aboriginal health plan
• a possible announcement on health education foundation money
• three presentations, including:  1. Councillor Lynne Christiansen with the City of Terrace’s Health Task Force, 2.  Village of Queen Charlotte Mayor Carol Kulesha, former chair of the Island’s Health Watch, 3.  Prince Rupert Port Authority - to be confirmed

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