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Provincial Health Services Authority

Health service provider in the Canadian province of British Columbia

Summary

Health service provider in the Canadian province of British Columbia

Field	Value
name	Provincial Health Services Authority
map	Image:BC-Canada-province.png
mcaption	PHSA serves the entire province
formation	2001
type	British Columbia Health Authority
leader_title	CEO
leader_name	David Byres
num_staff	c. 22,000
budget	c. $5,028,839,000 in 2023-2024 http://www.phsa.ca/about-site/Documents/PHSA%20Consolidated%20Financial%20Statements%202023-24.pdf?
website

PHSA operates and manages a number of programs and services:

BC Cancer
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)
Health Emergency Management BC
BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services
BC Renal
BC Transplant
BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre
Cardiac 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

David Byres has been president and CEO since February 2021, when Benoit Morin stepped down following a review into allegations of misspending. Morin had taken the role in February 2020 after the retirement of his predecessor, Carl Roy, who served as the executive leader of PHSA from January 2014 – February 2020. The organization’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.

In October 2013 was recognized with a national top employer honour. In 2015, the Vancouver Sun reported that the five highest-paid public sector employees in British Columbia's health sector were physicians affiliated with the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA). This reflects PHSA's role in delivering province-wide specialized health services, which often involve complex care requiring highly trained medical professionals.

References

Gangdev, Srushti. (9 February 2021). "B.C. provincial health authority CEO steps down following review into allegations of misspending {{!}} Globalnews.ca". Global News.
"PHSA Executive". PHSA.
(22 June 2013). "Health authority CEO removed after giving pay hikes to 118 senior managers". Global TV BC.
"Canada's Top 100 Employers 2014".
(12 February 2015). "Public sector salaries: Health authority doctors are top earners". [[Vancouver Sun]].

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