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The re-drawn map of health care in British Columbia and where Prince George Regional Hospital fits on that map will be unveiled before Christmas, says the minister of health.
“We are at the final stages of that and expect announcements in the next couple of weeks definitely before Christmas,” health services minister Colin Hansen told the Free Press. “Right now we have a myriad of health authorities around the province … Our goal is to significantly decrease the number of health authorities.”
The current system of health care delivery in B.C. has now fewer than 52 individual authorities. Eleven are health regions, like the Northern Interior Health Region that encompasses Prince George and surrounding communities. That accounts for 50 per cent of the province’s geography, and 90 per cent of its population, says Mr. Hansen. The remaining is taken up by a mixture of 34 community health councils under seven health services societies. The new model, he adds, will