Sandi Mowat, MNU President, recently visited nurses and facilities in the Interlake Regional Health Authority, stopping at Selkirk, Teulon, Arborg, Gimli, Fisher Branch, Ashern, Ericksdale, Lundar and Stonewall, Manitoba, in keeping with her pledge to visit every Region by the April 2009 AGM.

At Red River Place PCH in Selkirk, Sandi talks with Gord Hooker (left) and meets Pat Michaleski (centre).
Virginia Sikes (right), Betel Personal Care Home in Selkirk.

(Left) Tudor House PCH – (l-r) Sandi Mowat, Yvonne Oxer, Leonore Boyce, Senior Nurse Manager and Barb Niebel.
(Right) Sandi Mowat (left) and Yvonne Oxer, Regional President and Board Rep, are taken on a tour of the Selkirk Crisis Unit led by Wendy Meek (centre).

We need to get more nurse training  programs in hospitals!” Karen Campbell, Teulon Hunter Memorial Health Centre

Selkirk General Hospital nurses, Susan Wall (left), OR nurses Brenda Ebers and Karen Warcimaga (centre) and Deb Boyko on the Chemotherapy Unit (right).

Arborg & Districts Health Centre staff:
(Left; l-r) Marth Ramnath, Sandi Mowat, Donnette Surminski, Tannis Clarkson, Catherine Hunter, Rosemarie Kempa, Yvonne Oxer and Linda Oddleifson.
(Right; l-r) Catherine Hunter and Linda Oddleifson.

“It's wonderful the way nurses in this facility work together; and the way they care for and about their clients” Pat Anderson, at the Elizabeth M. Crowe Memorial Hospital in Ericksdale, MB moved here from Alberta. She is a little worried she might miss the chinooks.

Jill Brungel, Teulon Hunter Memorial Health Centre (left), Kim Perreault, Lundar PCH (centre), and Kathy Sigurdson of Gimli Betel (right)

(Left) Julie Kemps (on phone) and fellow nurses at the desk at the Gimli Hospital.
(Inset) Gimli – Lake Winnipeg at dawn
(Right; l-r) Gimli President, Beryl Dziedzic, Yvonne Oxer, Dale Marucki, Sandi Mowat.

(Left) Sandi Mowat with Sandy McVey of Stonewall.
(Centre) Bunny Eastveld of the Dr. Evelyn Memorial Hospital in Stonewall.
(Right) Sandi Mowat, MNU President, with nurse Colleen Hogue at Lakeshore General Hospital.