The Nova Scotia Health Authority is a provincial health authority serving Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the largest employer in the province, with more than 23,000 employees, 2,500 physicians and 7,000 volunteers working from 45 different facilities.[1] Its largest hospital is the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax.
Facilities
The Nova Scotia Health authority operates various facilities across the province of Nova Scotia:[2]
History
The Nova Scotia Health Authority was formed on April 1, 2015, as an amalgamation of nine existing regional authorities:
- South Shore District Health Authority
- South West District Health Authority
- Annapolis Valley District Health Authority
- Colchester East Hants Health Authority
- Cumberland Health Authority
- Pictou County Health Authority
- Guysborough Antigonish Strait Health Authority
- Cape Breton District Health Authority
- Capital District Health Authority
The authority received a $843,530 grant from the Public Health Agency of Canada's Immunization Partnership Fund to implement Nova Scotia's Enhanced Immunization Access Project.[3] Between December 2019 and May 2020, parents of children born in 2011 were surveyed to collect up-to-date immunization records.[4]
On September 1, 2021, the newly elected provincial government undertook wholesale changes in the NS Health Authority. The CEO and volunteer board members were released from their duties. An interim CEO was appointed. Karen Oldfield, newly appointed interim CEO, previously was the senior executive at the Halifax Ports Corporation.
