EUROA Health Inc (EHI) announced last week that current interim CEO Melissa Seymour has been formally appointed to the position.

The previously announced CEO appointment did not proceed, so the board moved quickly to secure Ms Seymour to the CEO position.

Since January this year, Ms Seymour has taken lead of the accreditation required by Euroa Health through the governing bodies in the aged care, NDIS and acute hospital services without which we could not operate these services and is already a well established and well known member of the staff.

Ms Seymour's connection to Euroa goes way back to her childhood visiting her Nanna, Maisie Nelson of Templeton St and later Railway St in Euroa.

Her fond memories of shopping down Binney Street during school holiday stays in Euroa, and being recognised as her father, Vic Nelson's daughter, at the local butcher shop where Vic did his apprenticeship, before marrying Melissa's mum, Janeece Gallagher and moving to Shepparton.

Euroa was also where Ms Seymour started early employment as a junior waitress at the iconic Haygun's and Taffy's restaurants under the experienced guidance of Jill and Bernard Hayes.

An experienced leader and manager, Ms Seymour spent two recent years as the program facilitator of the Fairley Leadership Program, and nine years before that as the Rural Clinical School manager of the University of Melbourne, based in Shepparton and holding a Bachelor of Health Sciences, and public relations qualifications.

Ms Seymour has implemented many strategic actions in her two years for Euroa Health as innovation and special project manager, including returning x–ray and ultrasound services back to the town, leading innovation across the whole organisation and bringing 21st century technology to the facility through electronic meal ordering, electronic medication management and introducing a scientific based workplace wellbeing program, as well as various other system and process improvements.

Now formally as CEO, Ms Seymour will continue to deliver the Strategic 2021–2025 Pathway developed for the years ahead which was endorsed by the board.