Governance and Linkages: The Office of Rural and Northern Health is funded by Manitoba Health. Funding for the ORNH project is provided through the Regional Health Authorities of Manitoba (RHAM). As a result, ORNH operates as a department of RHAM reporting through the RHAM Executive Director to the Board of Directors. Regional Health Authorities of Manitoba (RHAM) Manitoba Health The ORNH is an active partner with the University of Manitoba Regional Health Authorities as Partners: Assiniboine Regional Health Authority Brandon Regional Health Authority Burntwood Regional Health Authority Regional Health Authority - Central Churchill Regional Health Authority Interlake Regional Health Authority Nor-Man Regional Health Authority North Eastman Health Association Parkland Regional Health Authority South Eastman Regional Health Authority Staff: Medical Director, Dr. Don Klassen Role: Serve as a champion and advocate for health professional education for rural students, for increased rural curriculum at all levels of medical education and for rural practice. Be the voice for rural Manitobans at the Faculty of Medicine and play a major co-ordinating function for rural training. Profile: Don currently practices medicine at the Boundary Trails Health Centre and at the Dr. C. W. Wiebe Medical Centre in Winkler. He has been a practitioner since 1978 and is a strong advocate for rural and northern family medicine. Administrative Director, Wayne Heide Role: Responsible for the administrative operation of the Office of Rural and Northern Health. Initiate and co-ordinate activities aimed at partnering the health and education system with regional community resources. Profile: Wayne has over a decade of experience in the area of community development, project development and administration. Transplanted to rural Manitoba from Winnipeg in 1992, he has a first hand understanding of the value and appeal of rural life. Administrative Assistant, Dawn Piasta Role: Provide the office with a broad range of administrative support. Act as the primary contact point for follow-up information and ongoing communication between the office and established sites of community activity. Profile: Dawn brings a wealth of administrative knowledge and years of computer and web design experience to the office. She has chosen to live in rural Manitoba where she has raised her family since 1987. Practising Physicians as Partners: "The rural physician today is something of a breed apart. He thinks he owns the best of both worlds. He lives and works in a rustic, often pastoral setting. Still, with the ease of modern transportation, he finds that the cultural and recreational attractions of the city lie within his easy reach. Granted, it was not always so. The beloved horse and buggy doctor of the past suffered professional isolation and grueling demands on his time. False images die hard." --JK Heid 1979 Practising rural physicians will play a key role in acting as preceptors for rural and northern clinical training experiences. They will also play a role as mentors for students interested or enrolled in medical school. Communities as Partners: All communities have assets and resources and must look at positive solutions to get positive results. "Physicians occupy an unusual spot in the social structure of rural communities. From an economic standpoint, they are successful entrepreneurs, well-paid business people similar to bankers and lawyers. On the other hand, they are also social servants like policemen or teachers, just as essential to the welfare and functioning of the community but paid for through a fee-for-service mechanism outside of local community control. The anomalous status requires some fairly innovative interpersonal and structural relationships to strike a workable balance." --Rosenblatt and Moscovice, 1982 Communities are active participants in programs operated by the Office of Rural and Northern Health. They provide local resources and coordination to facilate the realization of the ORNH mandate. Manitoba Community Profiles - This site provides the most comprehensive listing of information on every community and region in Manitoba. Each community profile offers up-to-date information covering everything from location (maps) to quality of life indicators (demographics, population, labour force, education, history, recreational facilities) to economic indicators (utilities, transportation, taxation, land, buildings & development).

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Office of Rural and Northern Health is a department of Regional Health Authorities of Manitoba and funded by Manitoba Health.
The ORNH is an active partner with the University of Manitoba.

Office of Rural and Northern Health
Unit D - 101 1st Avenue NW
Dauphin, MB R7N 1G8
Phone: 204-622-6210 Fax: 204-622-6211 Toll-free: 1-866-244-ORNH (6764)

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