The contentious overhaul of Winnipeg's health-care system is continuing one week after a provincial election was fought over the issue, with the closure of the intensive care unit at Seven Oaks General Hospital on Sept. 19.

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has released figures that show there were 1,350 vacant nursing positions as of August — an increase from 1,171 the previous year. A retired nurse and the Manitoba Nurses Union both say the province's health-care system is losing valuable expertise.

A former staff member with the Addictions Foundation Manitoba says she’s concerned about the plan to roll the arm’s-length Crown agency into the province’s newly created health authority.

A former registered nurse says she retired early in part because of the stress caused by changes to Manitoba's health-care system — and she wouldn't be surprised if others did the same.

Nurses at Seven Oaks General Hospital say they feel slighted by a unilateral decision to extend most shifts by four hours once the emergency department closes in September.

The largest health-care revamp in a generation has many Winnipeggers wondering what will happen after half of Winnipeg's emergency departments shut down and two urgent care facilities open.

Concordia's emergency room is closing ahead of schedule because the hospital doesn't have enough staff to sustain emergency care any longer, it was announced on Wednesday. 

Workers at a Selkirk facility that handles mounds of laundry for Winnipeg's health authority may have to apply for new positions — but they don't know where or even when.

Manitoba's health minister wouldn't give a yes or no answer when asked Thursday if the emergency room at Concordia Hospital will shut down as planned. But Cameron Friesen said it's unlikely the consultant who suggested Winnipeg should offer emergency care in fewer locations will change his mind.

Real Cloutier, the head of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, acknowledges that employees are mired in a "valley of despair" two years into a massive transformation of the province's health-care system.

A group advocating to keep ambulance service based in Grandview, Man., has enlisted help from researchers at McMaster University in their plight.

Winnipeg's ambulance protocols will change next month, as part of Concordia Hospital's emergency room's transition into a ​walk-in clinic.

Nurses at Winnipeg's St. Boniface Hospital have been required to work overtime more than twice as often in the first six months of this year as in all of 2017, according to statistics released Wednesday by the Manitoba Nurses Union.

Manitoba's bloated health-care system must be slimmed down, the government said Thursday.

The walk-in connected care clinic will open next summer, Health Minister Kelvin Goertzen announced Wednesday at a media conference.

Winnipeg's health authority revealed the timeline Thursday for the closure of Concordia Hospital's emergency room and the conversion of Seven Oaks General Hospital into an urgent care centre.

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority intends to further slash emergency room wait times in the year ahead.

Manitoba's health minister says the planned process to cut the number of bargaining units in the province could take up to 18 months and cost up to $250,000, but he hopes it won't take that long.

Closures and consolidations in Manitoba’s health system are causing staffing shortages at units across Winnipeg hospitals, leading to overcrowding and a return to hallway medicine, the president of the Manitoba Nurses Union said Wednesday.

Wait times in Winnipeg emergency departments have dropped by 16 per cent overall in the past year, but have gone up every month since sweeping changes were implemented last October.

There are now more Manitobans waiting longer than the recommended time period for some health-care services than there were two years ago, according to a new report released on Thursday.