Jennifer Cumpsty

Jennifer joined the HSC Winnipeg corporate office in November 2020 as Interim Executive Director of Acute Health Service and was appointed Executive Director of Acute Health Services in March 2022. As part of the executive team, Jennifer actively contributes to operational planning, implementation and evaluation, and provides guidance and support to health services leaders in Adult Emergency, Child Health, Critical Care, Medicine, Mental Health, NICU, Surgery, and Women’s Health. With a career in health care spanning 25+ years – including leadership roles in Women’s Health, Adult Emergency, and Renal Health – Jennifer’s passion remains to drive quality and patient safety improvements and adopt integrated service delivery models to create pathways to care that are centered on the patient.

During the COVID-19 pandemic Jennifer has ably represented HSC at the Incident Command Provincial Operations and Provincial Planning table and continues to provide invaluable leadership to a large, dynamic, multidisciplinary team.

Jennifer holds an RN and bachelor’s degrees in both Psychology and Nursing, and completed a Master of Health Studies in April 2022, with her Capstone project focused on “Trauma-Informed Leadership During the Pandemic and Beyond.”