HALIFAX – The CEO of two health boards in southern Nova Scotia will lead a new amalgamated health authority that will run most hospitals in the province next year.
Janet Knox of both Annapolis Valley Health and South Shore Health will advise the province as it continues consolidating its 10 boards and she will become the new health authority’s CEO on April 1.
Reducing the number of health authorities from 10 to two – one for the IWK Health Centre in Halifax and one for the rest of the province – was an election promise made last year by the Liberal party.
It says the province will save $13 million a year through amalgamation.
Health Minister Leo Glavine has said that while most of the savings would come from shared services and staffing reductions, the only positions to be cut would be from management.
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