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3rd Annual Women’s Health Nursing Conference: Current Issues in Women’s Health
McNamara Alumni Center
University of Minnesota
200 Oak Street SE
The Deborah E. Powell Center for Women’s Health, Department of OB/GYN and Women’s Health and the School of Nursing invites you to attend the 3rd Annual Women’s Health Nursing Conference on May 15, 2008 at the U of M McNamara Alumni Center.
This year’s conference topics include cervical cancer, diabetes, exercise, STIs, care for babies and women in disaster situations, women and alcohol, and peripheral artery disease. Please visit www.wmhealth.umn.edu for more information.
Breakfast and lunch provided
Continuing nursing education units available
$25 registration fee, free for students

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Tory MLAs are expected to debate a contentious proposal today to reduce Alberta’s nine health boards to as few as one.
But several leaders at embattled health regions — including two former cabinet ministers — insist that won’t help patients or save money.
As Premier Ed Stelmach said Wednesday that Albertans are questioning the size of current health regions and the number of “people walking around with pencils,” three prominent health board members argued a single board is the wrong move.
Marv Moore, former health minister and veteran Tory campaign manager said the “superboard” could actually create more bureaucracy, while the chair of another health authority said the change would hurt representation in rural areas.
“There’s really nothing, absolutely nothing, to be gained by having one board,” said Moore, now chairman of the Peace Country Health Region, which covers much of northwestern Alberta.
“You’re not going to solve the situation in Calgary by having a superboard out of Edmonton. Nothing is going to change in terms of the demand for health-care services,” Moore said in an interview.
“Really what it is is a step backwards.”
The comments come as Health Minister Ron Liepert is widely expected to bring forward a proposal to the Conservative caucus this morning to restructure the province’s health region boards.
The boards oversee hospitals and related services in their respective regions. Liepert is said to favour the idea of reducing the number of boards from nine to one.
The minister’s plan for health region governance is part of a broader move to overhaul Alberta’s $13-billion-a-year medical system.
Liepert has said the current system is not working, with patients facing bed shortages and emergency room waits, adding that spending additional money has not fixed the problem.
On Wednesday, Liepert refused to confirm he is proposing to reduce the number of regional boards at today’s caucus meeting.

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