{"id":306965,"date":"2025-11-26T00:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306965\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T00:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:06:10","slug":"ladysmith-oceanside-mla-moving-into-healthcare-role-with-provincial-government-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306965\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladysmith-Oceanside MLA moving into healthcare role with provincial government | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c3ef7bf7-73cd-43fa-b0b9-a436979e75ef.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ladysmith-Oceanside MLA Stephanie Higginson, seen here speaking in February 2021, is the new parliamentary secretary for primary care access, under the Ministry of Health portfolio. (BC Government)<\/p>\n<p>By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff<\/p>\n<p>new job<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tNov 25, 2025 | 12:07 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NANAIMO \u2014 A first-term MLA is moving into a high-profile ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Ladysmith-Oceanside MLA Stephanie Higginson was named the new parliamentary secretary for primary care access, under the Ministry of Health and Mid-Island Pacific Rim MLA Josie Osborne.<\/p>\n<p>Higginson\u2019s mandate, announced Tuesday, Nov. 25, includes increasing primary care access throughout British Columbia \u201cthrough community health centres and team-based care\u201d, specifically in rural and remote communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that people in my riding and across B.C. care deeply about reliable access to primary care, and I\u2019m eager and ready to work with Minister Osborne on this crucial part of our health-care system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ladysmith-Oceanside MLA Stephanie Higginson, seen here speaking in February 2021, is the new parliamentary secretary for primary care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,84,392,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-306965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}