The WRHA also provides health-care support and specialty referral services to those Manitobans who live out of these boundaries, as well as residents of northwestern Ontario and Nunavut.

[1] As of 2009, the WRHA also publishes a bi-monthly health and wellness magazine, called Wave.

[4] The WRHA serves the city of Winnipeg, the northern community of Churchill, and the Rural Municipalities of East and West St. Paul; and also provide health-care support and specialty referral services to those Manitobans who live out of these boundaries, as well as residents of northwestern Ontario and Nunavut.

[1][5] Aboriginal people make up 11.0% of the region's residents in private households (4.5% First Nations, 0.1% Inuit, and 6.3% Métis).

[6] The current WRHA Chief Medical Officer, Dr Joss Reimer took the position on April 18, 2022.

In 2021, WRHA's board of directors chair, Wayne McWhirter, stepped down after reportedly travelling to the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.

[20] The Pan Am Clinic is an operating division of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, with a focus on sports medicine.

As of 2014, the facility includes bone and joint care and research, computer radiography, MRI, orthopaedic operations, plastic surgery services, a minor injury clinic for children, a research/education lab as well as a specialized concussion clinic at a satellite location, at the Bell MTS Iceplex.

[18] In 2012, the provincial government merged the provinces eleven Regional Health Authorities into five.