{"id":437502,"date":"2026-01-28T00:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437502\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:29:10","slug":"rnu-meets-with-health-minister-on-future-direction-of-health-care-in-nl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437502\/","title":{"rendered":"RNU Meets with Health Minister on Future Direction of Health Care in NL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/health-science-hospital.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"RNU Meets with Health Minister on Future Direction of Health Care in NL\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health Sciences Centre (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The president of the Registered Nurses\u2019 Union recently met with the health minister with a simple question at the fore: \u201cWhere to from here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Late last week Pat Parfrey was relieved of his duties as CEO of NL Health Services, with Ron Johnson taking over the position on an interim basis. <\/p>\n<p>Yvette Coffey met with minister Lela Evans Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>She referenced the hearings into agency nurse contracts, and how they heard that there were many problems that plagued the four former regional health authorities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, the leadership of the four RHAs has formed the leadership of NLHS. What we want to know, is going forward, is there going to be a change? Because we cannot keep repeating the mistakes of the past.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Health Sciences Centre (VOCM News) The president of the Registered Nurses\u2019 Union recently met with the health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-437502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437502","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=437502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}