The Northern Regional Health Authority announced the successor to current CEO Helga Bryant March 3.
Raj Sewda will take over as the health authority CEO effective April 1, according to a news release.
A registered nurse with leadership and management experience in Ontario, Sewda was the chief operating officer, chief nursing executive and executive vice-president of clinical services at Toronto’s Runnymede Health Centre. He has also been a professor in the health management program at Ontario’s Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology and most recently worked as a clinical partner at Sienna Senior Living, providing support to long-term care communities across Ontario and British Columbia.
“We believe Mr. Sewda has the right combination of experience, education and management skills to provide great benefit to the region as we move forward,” said NRHA board chair Cal Huntley. “Our national search yielded a number of high-quality candidates and we are pleased Raj has accepted the challenge of leading the region into the future. We look forward to welcoming Raj and his wife, Sumi, to Flin Flon as they settle into the region.”
Bryant announced last June 23 that she would be resigning from her position as health region CEO effective March 30 of this year.
Bryant was named CEO of the NRHA in June 2012, shortly after the new health authority was created by amalgamating the Burntwood Regional Health Authority, which was responsible for health care services in Thompson and elsewhere in the north, and the NOR-MAN Regional Health Authority, which was based in and provided services in the western portion of Northern Manitoba, including Flin Flon and The Pas.
“On behalf of all our citizens, the board again thanks retiring CEO Helga Bryant for her years of faithful, dedicated and valued service to the people of Northern Manitoba," said Huntley.
Bryant will not be idle for long. University College of the North announced Aug. 18 that Bryant would take over as its dean of health from current dean Vicki Zeran starting in May 2023.
