{"id":610139,"date":"2026-04-17T11:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/610139\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:51:08","slug":"former-nlhs-ceo-doesnt-believe-health-accord-will-be-thrown-out-under-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/610139\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NLHS CEO Doesn\u2019t Believe Health Accord Will be Thrown Out Under New Government"},"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\/2026\/04\/dr-pat-parfrey.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Former NLHS CEO Doesn't Believe Health Accord Will be Thrown Out Under New Government\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Pat Parfrey (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The former CEO of NL Health Services says he\u2019s confident the Wakeham government won\u2019t abandon the Health Accord that he co-authored.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Pat Parfrey spoke publicly for the first time yesterday since he was replaced by the new government on January 22 \u2013 a year to the day he was appointed by former Premier Andrew Furey.<\/p>\n<p>Parfrey told a St. John\u2019s Rotary luncheon that the key challenges in health care, such as capacity, spending and aging population, must be addressed through new infrastructure \u2013 whether it\u2019s hospitals in St. John\u2019s or long-term care facilities in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>One of the government\u2019s first moves was to cancel the new acute care hospital along Kenmount Road, with renovations of St. Clare\u2019s planned instead.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Parfrey urged the new government to continue investing in the social determinants of health, or healthy living and habits, as preached in the Health Accord.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was created to be able to transcend change in government,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd from what the new government is saying, I\u2019m confidence that they will adhere to the tenants of the Health Accord \u2013 they may implement them differently, that\u2019s their prerogative \u2013 but that they will adhere to the tenants of the Health Accord and that will help with these challenges that I\u2019m talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Dr. Pat Parfrey (VOCM News) The former CEO of NL Health Services says he\u2019s confident the Wakeham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-610139","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\/610139","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=610139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}