The Saskatchewan Healthcare Recruitment Company has recruited a brand new CEO.
The federal government introduced Thursday that Erin Brady will take cost of the SHRA on Might 23. She has labored beforehand with the Saskatchewan Well being High quality Council and saskdocs.
The function of the SHRA — which was created in 2022 as a Treasury Board Crown company — is to recruit medical doctors, nurses and different health-care professionals from inside Saskatchewan, throughout North America and different international locations.
The federal government stated the SHRA will speed up the work being finished via the province’s Well being Human Sources Motion Plan, the purpose of which is so as to add greater than 1,000 staff to its health-care system over the subsequent few years.
Based on the federal government, 69 household physicians and 102 specialists have agreed to maneuver to Saskatchewan from outdoors the province over the previous 19 months. As nicely, the province stated 186 graduate nurses have been employed since December of final yr and conditional letters of provide have been prolonged to 129 nurses who’re to graduate this spring.
The federal government has additionally been actively recruiting health-care employees from the Philippines.
“The Company will work with companions to create and implement modern brief and long-term methods and packages that proceed to assist the recruitment and retention of well being professionals within the province,” the federal government stated in a launch.
The company is to work carefully with employers just like the Saskatchewan Well being Authority and Saskatchewan Most cancers Company, and with different stakeholders resembling Saskatchewan communities and municipalities.