Stanton gets interim CEO to serve until next March
Sue Cullen is former head of Hay River health authority
Shane Magee
Northern News Services
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
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Sue Cullen will start next month as the interim CEO of Stanton Territorial Hospital.
Sue Cullen will start next month as the interim CEO of Stanton Territorial Hospital. - photo courtesy of Stanton Territorial Health Authority |
The Stanton Territorial Health Authority announced the appointment from Sept. 10 to March 31, 2016 in a news release yesterday.
Cullen has served as assistant deputy minister of operations for the territorial department of Health and Social Services since April 2013.
She's a registered nurse by training.
According to the statement, she has leadership experience in the North, United States and
United Kingdom.
She was previously CEO of the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority and also acted as interim CEO of the Beaufort Delta Health and Social Services Authority.
"I am excited by the opportunity to move back into health and social services operations and support developing the key role that Stanton will play in the new integrated territorial system," she stated.
She'll lead the organization through the early stages of construction that, when complete, will result in a hospital about double its current square footage through a public-private partnership, or P3. It was announced last week that Boreal Health Partnership was named the "preferred proponent" for the project.
Cullen fills a vacancy created by the departure of Brenda FitzGerald, which the GNWT announced in July.
FitzGerald had been on the job for less than two years. Health department spokesperson Damien Healy told Yellowknifer that "for valid reasons" FitzGerald was not prepared to make a long-term commitment that the government sought.
Last week, Healy told Yellowknifer the aim was to have a new CEO in place by this fall.
Why Cullen will now serve until March when the department planned, as recently as Aug. 20, to have someone in place permanently this fall could not be clarified by press time.
- with files from Meagan Leonard
