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New Vice-President and Chief Nursing Executive at Health Sciences North

Carrington brings 30 years of Ontario healthcare experience to HSN
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Lorraine Carrington. Supplied.

Lorraine Carrington has been appointed HSN’s Vice-President and Chief Nursing Executive, effective August 20th.  She will be the successor to David McNeil who served in this role for 17 years, and in January was promoted to Senior Vice-President, Patient Experience and Digital Transformation.

The Vice-President and Chief Nursing Executive leads a team of more than 1,100 employees and has a budget exceeding $154 million in surgery, medicine, emergency and critical care, patient flow, utilization as well as infection prevention and control.

Carrington brings 30 years of Ontario healthcare experience to HSN.

For the last 18 years, she’s served in progressive nursing leadership roles in acute care, serving as Manager at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Manager at the McLaughlin Durham Regional Cancer Centre, Director at the North York General Hospital and Director at Lakeridge Health. Her portfolios included nephrology and diabetes, cardiac diagnostics and rehabilitation, infection prevention and control, medicine, bed allocation and patient flow, critical care, cancer and elder care.