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NRHA CEO will become UCN dean of health after retiring next spring

Helga Bryant will join UCN in May 2023, about a month after leaving her current job as the health region’s top executive.
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Northern Regional Health Authority CEO Helga Bryant will become University College of the North’s dean of health next spring after retiring from her current position.

Northern Regional Health Authority CEO Helga Bryant will start her next job about a month after she retires from her current position next spring.

University College of the North announced Aug. 18 that Bryant will take over as its dean of health from current dean Vicki Zeran starting in May 2023.

“UCN is excited to bring Helga onto our team,” said president Doug Lauvstad. “Helga is well-known and respected in the region, UCN has a strong record of preparing healthcare professionals for northern communities, and she will help ensure UCN’s health programming continues developing and supports the needs of the north,”

The NRHA announced June 23 that Bryant would bee retiring from the CEO position next March 30.

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.

A registered nurse since 1974, Bryant earned a master’s degree in health care administration through Central Michigan University in 1997. She was the acute care and diagnostic services vice-president for the Brandon Regional Health Authority from 1998 to 2002, when she became vice-president and chief nursing officer at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, a position she held until 2009, when she was appointed as the executive director of the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba.

Prior to working at HSC, Helga spent almost 30 years in clinical and leadership roles in Brandon.

Bryant said at the time of her NRHA retirement announcement that she did not plan to stop working after stepping down.

The NRHA said in June that the search for a new CEO would begin as soon as a board committee was established to oversee the process.

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