The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority says all the major changes to the health care system are mostly finished, and the plan is to now begin addressing wait times and nursing vacancies.

A memo sent to staff by the president of Seven Oaks General Hospital says the centre's Emergency Department will be converted to an Urgent Care Centre July 22, two months earlier than expected.

Seven Oaks General Hospital will be converting its emergency services to an urgent care centre this fall, and the reorganization means staff are concerned about the future of their jobs.

The closure of Concordia Hospital's ER is now scheduled for June 2019.  The ER at Seven Oaks General Hospital will convert to an urgent care centre in September of the same year.

Pink slips have gone out to managers with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. Earlier this year health authorities were mandated by the province to reduce their non-unionized management positions by 15 per cent.

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has apologized to the family of a Winnipeg women who died last fall while laying in pain on a hospital floor.

A 68-year-old Winnipeg woman's death was "unpredictable" and "inevitable" according to an inquest report released Tuesday.

In Manitoba there are about 15-hundred people on dialysis, needing help to clear their body of toxins because their kidneys can't do it on their own.