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MIKAELA MACKENZIE \/ FREE PRESS FILES<\/p>\n
Lanette Siragusa<\/p>\n
A Shared Health spokesperson would not provide a breakdown of Siragusa\u2019s compensation, but said the total figure includes regular earnings and certain \u201clegislative and contractual payments,\u201d such as vacation and severance, which were paid out at the time of her departure from the organization.<\/p>\n
By comparison, Shared Health\u2019s interim CEO, Chris Christodoulou, made $355,083 last year, according to the financial records. In 2024, Siragusa\u2019s salary was marked at $384,425.<\/p>\n
A University of Manitoba business instructor guessed Siragusa\u2019s high salary was likely a result of Shared Health paying out the rest of its contract with her.<\/p>\n
Sean MacDonald, who teaches at the Asper School of Business, said while the amount isn\u2019t scandalous in itself because the dollar figure represents the entirety of a contract, the revolving door of CEOs at Shared Health is adding up.<\/p>\n
Siragusa was tapped to lead the health authority following Adam Topp\u2019s resignation four months into the job in 2023. He left the position shortly after a report commissioned by Shared Health found most of the province\u2019s health workforce reported a low level of well-being and resilience and was ready to quit.<\/p>\n
Topp earned $603,604 before he departed in April that year. Nader made $726,339 in 2025 before his departure from WRHA, financial documents show.<\/p>\n
\u201c(The province) has got to stop, or really consider the contracts that they\u2019re entering into, because this is getting very expensive to pay all of these executives for not working,\u201d MacDonald said.<\/p>\n
While Siragusa led Shared Health between 2023 and 2025, she served as dean of education at the University of Manitoba Rady Faculty of Health Sciences in a reduced role. She remains in that position, according to the U of M\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Her salary at the U of M in 2025 was $161,605, according to its compensation disclosure report.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026This is getting very expensive to pay all of these executives for not working.\u201d<\/p>\n
Siragusa did not respond to a request for comment Friday.<\/p>\n
Provincial governments tend to want the executives leading government entities to be aligned with their philosophies, so it could make sense the NDP government severed ties with Siragusa in its first few years of governance, but MacDonald said the paycheques should be a cautionary tale.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an extremely expensive business practice that (the province) is engaging in,\u201d he said. \u201cIt kind of reflects that they\u2019re not clear on the strategy they desire, and so they keep on switching the leaders, and that\u2019s a little concerning in terms of how the overall public sector is being managed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Siragusa was named to the position by the former Progressive Conservative government in April 2023. PC health critic Kathleen Cook declined to comment on the former CEO\u2019s compensation.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said the government is required to operate within the confines of the contracts it signs and its legal obligations.<\/p>\n
Compensation for other executives in Manitoba\u2019s regional health network last year included Southern Health CEO Dana Human\u2019s $207,540. Human stepped into the role after former CEO Jane Curtis replaced Nader at WRHA. Curtis took home $293,365 last year.<\/p>\n
Mary Anne Ellis made $240,545, leading the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority. Prairie Mountain Health CEO Treena Slate earned $284,200 and Northern Health CEO Rajesh Sewda was paid $237,859.<\/p>\n
Under provincial law, government entities must disclose the salaries of public-sector employees who earn more than $85,000 in a fiscal year. The total listed figure includes overtime, retirement and severance pay, lump-sum payments, vacation payouts and benefits.<\/p>\n
Manitoba Nurses Union president Darlene Jackson was frustrated by the figures, suggesting the money could be put to better use elsewhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an extremely expensive business practice that (the province) is engaging in.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe need to see increased money in security, we need to see nurse-patient ratios instituted,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cThere\u2019s so many areas of health care that need to have an injection of money to keep nurses and other health-care providers and patients and families safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the time of the province\u2019s audit, Asagwara told health leaders to redirect eight per cent of the dollars earmarked for corporate services toward improvements to patient care before the end of the current fiscal year.<\/p>\n
Pathologists, who were paid between $523,000 and $913,000, appeared in the 23 spots immediately after Siragusa on the compensation list.<\/p>\n
Doctors Manitoba spokesman Keir Johnson said pathologists received a two per cent increase in remuneration last year, but the salaries are similar to those in the 2024 compensation disclosure.<\/p>\n
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