New AHS President and CEO has no degree and minimal credentials

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Someone explain to me... why this man (Mauro Chies, who is a lab tech by trade) is somehow qualified to be President and CEO of a health authority for an entire province?! Meanwhile, nurses are all being forced (at their own expense) to get a Masters or PhD in order to obtain leadership positions for anything other than grueling bedside and gruntwork. Or, is this just your typical "white guy who is a part of the old boys club" style of promotion tale?

https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/news/Page17224.aspx

https://www.nait.ca/nait/about/our-vision/awards-recognition/honorary-degree/2022/mauro-chies

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Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.

*** the patriarchy

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Per this link, he has a MASTERS in Business Administration, served as VP for Cancer Care Alberta  along with Senior Operation Officer = COO in US so has administrative chops.

https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/about/Page13097.aspx

 

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CaffeinePOQ4HPRN said:

Someone explain to me... why this man (Mauro Chies, who is a lab tech by trade) is somehow qualified to be President and CEO of a health authority for an entire province?! ...

One of the references you provided states that he earned his Master of Business Administration.  As for his experience he previously served as CEO and Board Chair of Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL); Vice President, Cancer Care Alberta & Clinical Support Services; and Senior Operating Officer, Diagnostic Imaging Services.

How exactly did you come to the conclusion, as you claim claim in the title of your threadd that Mr. Chies "has no degree and minimal credentials?" 

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chare said:

One of the references you provided states that he earned his Master of Business Administration.  As for his experience he previously served as CEO and Board Chair of Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL); Vice President, Cancer Care Alberta & Clinical Support Services; and Senior Operating Officer, Diagnostic Imaging Services.

How exactly did you come to the conclusion, as you claim claim in the title of your threadd that Mr. Chies "has no degree and minimal credentials?" 

He only truly has a certificate as a lab tech. His online masters degree is bolstered by an "honorary" undergrad degree... It's not real; he didn't earn an undergrad degree. His masters is from an online MBA program at Athabasca University... they're not unlike a diploma mill. Everyone and their grandma is doing this degree or something like it in an attempt to get ahead. Anyone who can pay the exorbitant fees can enrol in a program at Athabasca. How many diploma nurses do you know get an "honorary" BScN and CEO titles? If so, I'd love to meet them!

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NRSKarenRN said:

Per this link, he has a MASTERS in Business Administration, served as VP for Cancer Care Alberta  along with Senior Operation Officer = COO in US so has administrative chops.

https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/about/Page13097.aspx

 

His only true credential is a certificate as a lab tech. His online masters degree (pay to play type that anyone can buy) is bolstered by an "honorary" undergrad degree... It's not real; he never earned an undergrad degree.  How many diploma nurses do you know get an "honorary" BScN and VP roles or CEO titles? If so, I'd really love to meet them! Nurses, MDs, Midwives, all other clinical staff...and an entire health authority are now under this man's direction. I find this to be highly problematic... especially when you consider the critical staffing issues within nursing and medicine. This is a poor and misguided leadership decision.

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CaffeinePOQ4HPRN said:

He only truly has a certificate as a lab tech. His online masters degree is bolstered by an "honorary" undergrad degree... It's not real; he didn't earn an undergrad degree. His masters is from an online MBA program at Athabasca University... they're not unlike a diploma mill. Everyone and their grandma is doing this degree or something like it in an attempt to get ahead. Anyone who can pay the exorbitant fees can enrol in a program at Athabasca. How many diploma nurses do you know get an "honorary" BScN and CEO titles? If so, I'd love to meet them!

I'd hate to tell you where I got my BSN if you hate online universities this much. 

You're getting caught up in the one honorary degree he has but Athabasca University is an accredited school and he seems to have a legitimate MBA. This makes your title completely false. I know women with online degrees in leadership roles. Are you claiming they are also not qualified for their positions? You might want to reevaluate your biases if your answer is anything but a simple yes. 

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MaxAttack said:

I'd hate to tell you where I got my BSN if you hate online universities this much. 

You're getting caught up in the one honorary degree he has but Athabasca University is an accredited school and he seems to have a legitimate MBA. This makes your title completely false. I know women with online degrees in leadership roles. Are you claiming they are also not qualified for their positions? You might want to reevaluate your biases if your answer is anything but a simple yes. 

I was in an MBA program for a year and there was a lot of leaning that occurs in a classroom that happens that can't happen online.  The students learn a lot from one another and pearls of wisdom that can't happen in a pre-pared online lesson.  You just be a bigger bang for the buck.  And I dread to see a person in executive leadership in health care not have a graduate degree in health administration with some time in internship.  I live in the middle of nowhere 2 1/2 hours hours to a county more populated than mine (95,000 in the county).  We have two totally online programs with offices in town - neither has any clinical component.  IMHO, we brutalize nurses on the job because we manufacture more (with lower standards) and they go to be brutalized, leave and the cycle repeats.  The denominator of reasons is large but I think one of the components that make our lives more miserable are the MBA administrators.

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subee said:

I was in an MBA program for a year and there was a lot of leaning that occurs in a classroom that happens that can't happen online.  The students learn a lot from one another and pearls of wisdom that can't happen in a pre-pared online lesson.  You just be a bigger bang for the buck.  And I dread to see a person in executive leadership in health care not have a graduate degree in health administration with some time in internship.  I live in the middle of nowhere 2 1/2 hours hours to a county more populated than mine (95,000 in the county).  We have two totally online programs with offices in town - neither has any clinical component.  IMHO, we brutalize nurses on the job because we manufacture more (with lower standards) and they go to be brutalized, leave and the cycle repeats.  The denominator of reasons is large but I think one of the components that make our lives more miserable are the MBA administrators.

I'm not 100% sure where you're going but I agree there are benefits to brick-and-mortar learning. 

Anyways, the point stands that there's more truth published in The Onion than coming out of OP.

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