Regional health authorities in Manitoba

Regional health authorities (RHAs) are Manitoba's independent governing bodies for healthcare delivery and regulation. RHAs are overseen by their respective boards, who have responsibility for the mandate, resources, and performance of the health authority, responding directly to the provincial Minister of Health.

RHAs work under The Regional Health Authorities Act. The five RHAs that exist today were created as an amalgamation of eleven Health Authorities that were merged in 2012:

In addition to the five regional health authorities, the three other independent health delivery organizations of Manitoba Health, CancerCare Manitoba (CCMB), and Addictions Foundation of Manitoba (AFM).

Until 2016, RHAs operated under the umbrella of the Regional Health Authorities of Manitoba, Inc. (RHAM), a non-profit corporation intended to facilitate interregional healthcare delivery in the province, pursuing joint activities of mutual benefit to the provincial RHAs. In 2019, Health Minister Cameron Friesen announced amendments to the Regional Health Authorities Act, which added Shared Health as a provincial health authority to take on similar responsibilities to the previous RHAM over province-wide healthcare coordination. Shared Health now leads province-wide responsibilities in areas such as clinical and preventive services planning, digital health, infrastructure, and health human resources planning.

Diagnostic Services Manitoba (DSM), once an independent provincial agency, was fully integrated into Shared Health in 2019. Shared Health now manages all diagnostic services across Manitoba, including laboratories and imaging.

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