Provincial Health Services Authority (British Columbia)
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PHSA serves the entire province | |
| Motto | Province-wide solutions. Better health. |
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| Formation | 2001 |
| Type | British Columbia Health Authority |
CEO | Carl Roy |
Budget | $2.78 billion (approx) in 2014-15[1] |
Staff | 18,000 (approx) |
| Website |
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Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is a publicly funded health service provider in the province of British Columbia. Other health authorities in the province have a regional jurisdiction. PHSA is unique in Canada as the only health authority having a province-wide mandate for specialized health services. Services are provided either directly through PHSA agencies or through funding or collaboration with regional health authorities.
PHSA operates and manages a number of well-recognized specialized agencies:
- BC Cancer Agency
- BC Centre for Disease Control
- BC Children's Hospital & Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children
- BC Emergency Health Services (with programs BC Ambulance Service and the BC Patient Transfer Network)
- BC Mental Health & Addiction Services
- BC Provincial Renal Agency
- BC Transplant Society
- B.C. Women's Hospital & Health Centre
- Cardiac Services BC
- BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS(with the partnership with Providence Health and UBC)
- Cardiac Services BC
- Health Shared Services BC
The PHSA concentrates on doing three things to meet its responsibilities in health care:
- Provide leadership and management of selected agencies and organizations providing province-wide health care services;
- Ensure health care is delivered by overseeing performance agreements, expectations and funding allocations for selected provincial health care programs and services; and,
- Province-wide coordination of programs, services and support systems required by all health authorities and/or the Ministry of Health.
Management and employees
Because of its provision of province-wide specialized care, PHSA has repeatedly had the five highest-paid employees (each a physician) in the public health sector listed in annual reviews by the Vancouver Sun newspaper. [2]
President and CEO Carl Roy was named in January 2014 to lead the executive team.[3] The position became available after PHSA's first President and CEO Lynda Cranston resigned after a controversial wage increase for 118 senior managers during a province-wide wage freeze for the public health sector.[4]
PHSA has been consistently named a top employer in Canada, and in October 2013 was again recognized with a national top employer honour.[5]
See also
Other health authorities in British Columbia
- Fraser Health
- Interior Health
- Northern Health
- Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health
- Vancouver Island Health Authority
- First Nations Health Authority
References
- ↑ "Consolidated Financial Statements" (PDF). www.phsa.ca. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ↑ Skelton, Chad (Feb 12, 2015). "Public sector salaries: Health authority doctors are top earners". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ↑ "PHSA Executive". PHSA. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
- ↑ McElroy, Justin (June 22, 2013). "Health authority CEO removed after giving pay hikes to 118 senior managers". Global TV BC. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ↑ "Canada's Top 100 Employers 2014". Retrieved 24 March 2014.