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HEALTH--REGIONAL HEALTH BOARD MEMBERS ANNOUNCED
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Members of the new Regional Health Board teams for Nova Scotia
were announced today by Minister Bernie Boudreau.

"Nova Scotia's Regional Health Boards are playing a significant
and influential role in our restructured health care system,"
said Mr. Boudreau. "It's Nova Scotians working with and for one
another to help ensure health needs are effectively being met."

The province's four health boards are responsible for planning,
funding, coordinating, delivering and evaluating regional health
care programs. The boards are gradually assuming their new health
care responsibilities.

On Oct. 1, 1996 governance of many hospitals in each region was
transferred to the Regional Health Boards. Governance of the
remaining hospitals, with the exception of the Queen Elizabeth II
Health Sciences Centre, IWK-Grace, Nova Scotia Hospital and the
Cape Breton Health Care Complex, will be transferred Jan. 1,
1997. The boards will begin to assume responsibility for delivery
of drug dependency and public health services in the regions on
March 31, 1997.

Members of the new Regional Health Boards met during the Partners
in Health  96 conference which took place from Thursday, Dec. 5
to Saturday, Dec. 7 in Halifax. The successful conference focused
on how the health boards, four non-designated organizations and
the Department of Health would move forward together as partners
in Nova Scotia's new health care system. Mr. Boudreau attended
the three-day event.

The act to establish Regional Health Boards was passed in
September, 1994.

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Contact: Sue McKeage  902-424-3581

Attached is a list of the Regional Health Board members:

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           LIST OF THE REGIONAL HEALTH BOARD MEMBERS
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CENTRAL REGIONAL HEALTH BOARD      EASTERN REGIONAL HEALTH BOARD

DR. FRED FRENCH - CHAIR            PHILIP MURRAY - CHAIR

Christine Baker                    Lynn Berger
Gregory Baker                      Simone Larade
Diane Burns                        George MacDougall
Garnet Burns                       Margaret MacFarlane
Lloyd Brown                        Walter MacKinnon
Pamela Dean                        Jim MacLellan
Susan Edmonds                      Elaine MacMaster
Ellie Lethbridge                   Stephen MacNeil
Marilyn MacDonald                  Vanessa Morrison
Clifford A. Moir                   Elizabeth Nearing
Lawrence Sereacki                  Joseph O'Connor
Rev. John O. Scott                 Claude Oram
Sara Stewart                       Peter Stevens
Karen Vance-Wallace                Sharon Unsworth
Len A. Wilson                      Clotilda Yakimchuk


NORTHERN REGIONAL HEALTH BOARD     WESTERN REGIONAL HEALTH BOARD

J. RONALD CREIGHTON - CHAIR        JAMES R.C. PERKIN - CHAIR

Opal Black                         Loretta Achenbach
Mark Boon                          Linda Blades
Dr. Michael Cook                   Jack de Gooyer
David Dinaut                       Carl Doty
Eileen English                     Dr. George Ferrier
Charlene McCulloch                 Heather Fitzpatrick 
Vernon McCully                     Anna Keay
James Mitchell                     Anne T. Kennedy
Janice Mundle                      Judy Leblanc
Janice Murray-Gill                 Collin Lelliott
Dr. David Rippey                   David B. Logie
Shirley Saxon                      Dr. Meera Prakash
Brian P. Taylor                    Claredon Robicheau
Patricia Wheeler                   Jack Walsh 

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trp                    Dec. 9, 1996 - 4:18 p.m.