I would normally not email you twice one day, but I’m making an exception because I think it’s an important update to what I published earlier today.
Since then I’ve learned of two more executive leadership exits: Corey Miller, VP Provincial Programs and Sharon Garratt, VP Integrated Urban Health and Chief Nursing (I can’t even) Officer.
So here’s your updated SHA depth chart.
Two out of three leaders have left in fourteen months.
We have six people left at the top of the multi-billion dollar Saskatchewan Health Authority who have worked there from the outset of the pandemic.
I can’t really stress enough how much we’re losing just between Miller and Garratt. Both have been involved in Saskatchewan health care for decades. They’re taking with them skills, experience and institutional memory that is irreplaceable.
I should have done this in this morning’s piece, but let me take this opportunity to extend my gratitude, and I’m pretty confident saying that of the vast majority of Saskatchewan residents, to all outgoing, longtime SHA executives for your professionalism, your commitment to the health care system and most importantly, your dedication to the quality of care received by Saskatchewan patients.
The public service is not a corporation that makes money. It’s just not. It is a service for the public needs access in order to live their lives. They are critical, compulsory and the current degradation of all them, from the care spectrum to the Crowns, is devastating.
Losing the people that committed themselves to those services isn’t like losing a director at a bank. These are people who truly worked for the betterment of not just you and I, but hopefully our kids and grandkids.
I was going to leave you with “This is not who we are, Saskatchewan”, but it is. Right now it is.
To channel my grandmother: what a crying shame.
Talk soon,
