UM TodayPrairie Mountain Health – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 CBC Manitoba: Southwestern Manitoba regional health authority planning to open daycare to help recruit, retain staff https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/cbc-manitoba-southwestern-manitoba-regional-health-authority-planning-to-open-daycare-to-help-recruit-retain-staff/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/cbc-manitoba-southwestern-manitoba-regional-health-authority-planning-to-open-daycare-to-help-recruit-retain-staff/#respond Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:27:34 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=203631 Southwestern Manitoba regional health authority planning to open daycare to help recruit, retain staff]]> It’s unusual to see a major employer like Prairie Mountain Health take on developing a daycare, says Susan Prentice, a sociology professor at the University of Manitoba. But she thinks the health authority has to take action on its own to address a failure of public policy.

Child-care facilities are not being developed where and when they are needed, she said, forcing organizations like Prairie Mountain Health, “to step outside their …comfort zone and skill set to try and provide what’s necessary.”

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