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  • Mental Health Service Donation to Ukraine 10 August 2022 MHPHDS Clinical Equipment Coordinator, Chloe Davies, has been busy upgrading equipment for us at Graylands Hospital including securing a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation machine which uses brain stimulation to impact the central nervous system by applying powerful magnetic fields to certain parts of the brain to help with neurological issues. In the course of sourcing this new machines and other equipment for our services, she has amassed a number of ‘retired’ resources that needed a new home, including vital signs monitors and bladder scanners. Chloe has a history of making connections with charitable organisations for the purposes of donating medical equipment and this time she reached out to the Ukrainian Association of Western Australia (UAWA). With her great efforts, she has managed to facilitate the donation of this equipment to be shipped to war-stricken Ukraine for u...
  • WA’s first ‘Public Health Nutritionists’ 10 August 2022 NMHS is the proud place of employment of WA’s first 'Public Health Nutritionists' with Julia Platts and Michael Clow becoming the first people to be appointed to this position in Western Australia. As Public Health Nutritionists, their goal is to improve the nutrition of the overall population to help prevent obesity and diet-related diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and many cancers...
  • Harnessing the power of music in Mark’s mental health therapy and recovery 09 August 2022 ‘Mark Dark’ has brooding deep tones reminiscent of Johnny Cash and a way with words that conjures the lyrics of Nick Cave. It’s hard to believe this is not the description of new talent in the Triple J Unearthed line up. Mark is a client at the Creative Expression Centre for Art Therapy (CECAT) who has been working with Andrew Miller, Senior Occupational Therapist, to harness music as part of his...
  • Djilba brings relief and hope 01 August 2022 Though it's traditionally the coldest month of the year, August is the month of hope and relief as it leads us into the warmer days of Djilba. Represented by the colour pink for the blossoming newness it brings in September as Kings Park lights up with its burst of floral joy. In Noongar culture, it is marked as the season of conception; probably because there is nowhere better to be during these ...
  • New facility offers beauty and function 28 July 2022 Patients on Ward C16 at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital are surrounded by images of Boab Trees, the ocean and a real-life fish tank, as part of the newly refurbished facility for the elderly. The refurbishment of the unit won the “Best Building Fit-Out in the $5m-$10m category”, last Saturday night at the Master Builders Association WA awards. Delivered by our Infrastructure Development team with C...

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  • Minister for Health, the Hon Amber-Jade Sanderson, NMHS CE, Dr Shirley Bowen and Medical Director Radiology Dr Liz Wyllie launching new Breast Screen WA clinic
    New Breast Screening and Assessment Centre in Joondalup 23 May 2022 The Minister for Health, the Hon Amber-Jade Sanderson launched the BreastScreen WA (BSWA) clinic, saying that it will provide 11,000 screening episodes per annum for women in the Northern corridor. “Women in Australia have a 1 in 7 risk of developing breast cancer in their lifetime. I hope many women will take advantage of BSWA’s online booking facility to secure an appointment at this outstanding venue in Joondalup.” - Hon Amber-Jade Sanderson. Joined by new NMHS CE, Dr Shirley Bowen, WNHS ED Dr Jodi Graham and Medical Director Radiology Dr Liz Wylie, Minister Sanderson participated in Noongar Elder Auntie Marie Taylor’s smoking ceremony to cleanse and ward off bad spirits. The new assessment clinic also allows the service to incrementally increase capacity for the diagnostics of screen-detected abnormalities, such as cancer. The clinic will enable the service to...
  • Graylands Hospital volunteers Karly and Anne
    National Volunteers Week 20 May 2022 Despite all the differences that come with a multi-generational age gap, the commonality between Karly and Anne is their passion for helping people. Anne Wills has been a volunteer at Graylands Hospital for more than ten years. Karly has just completed a Bachelor Degree in Psychology and in her gap year before she returns to further her studies, she’s filling her time helping Anne in the myriad ways that she contributes as a volunteer (and single-handedly raising the bar for our young adult children!). On any given day, the volunteers at Graylands might be working in the second-hand apparel store hanging and ironing clothes, serving drinks from the kiosk, giving out birthday presents to patients, providing welcome and discharge packs and even collecting bottles and cans to support the hospital’s Containers for Change program. This work has been more crucial than ever during C...
  • Stephanie Taylor
    Celebrating our dedicated staff! 18 May 2022 Going above and beyond in the care and concern she holds for her colleagues and their wellbeing, Stephanie Taylor - Head of Unit, Special Dental Services, MHPHDS has been recognised by her fellow colleagues as the Djeran Employee of the Season! Stephanie was nominated by her colleagues for her caring, professional and innovative leadership in supporting staff to champion positive change at Dental Health Services. The judges said Stephanie showed care for procedures, patients and staff, and is a respectful and innovative leader. Dr Catherine Alford Regional Dental Officer, Education and Special Dental Services will award Stephanie via a Teams e-presentation where she will enjoy cupcakes with her team members courtesy of sponsor P&N Bank. Stephanie clearly demonstrates each of the five values of North Metro and is a worthy recipient of the $150 gift voucher from our generous sponsors. ...
  • Andrea Carlin
    Celebrating our dedicated staff! 11 May 2022 Providing people-centred care to her colleagues as she supported staff through COVID-19 contact tracing, North Metropolitan Health Service’s OSH COVID Response Clinical Nurse Manager Andrea Carlin has been recognised as NMHS Corporate Employee of the Quarter. Andrea was nominated by her colleagues for her compassion, care and dedication to supporting employees through the COVID contact tracing process ensuring they were aware of testing and isolation requirements, all the while striving to innovate and improve processes through a frequently changing environment. The Judges said Andrea provided individualised care to staff during the pandemic and was relied on by the OSH team as the contact tracing role quickly developed. Andrea takes great pride in her work and she consistently demonstrates the five NMHS values when providing service to patients and co-workers. Andrea’s mana...
  • It took me less than one minute to sign up as an organ and tissue donor
    128 percent increase in organ donation this year so far! 05 May 2022 Donate Life WA (DLWA) has reported that in the first four months of 2022, they have facilitated an increase in organ donations of 128.6% on the same period last year. DonateLife WA coordinates all organ and tissue donor activities across WA. It works with hospitals and hospital-based DonateLife medical and nursing specialists to provide professional donation services and encourage best practice to increase donation rates. The national donation target is 25 donors per million population (this is called the 'dpmp). The population of WA is approximately 2.8 million people so to reach the targeted dmpd, DLWA would need to support 70 donors over the course of the year. With the impressive donation rate in these first four months, the target is looking more and more achievable. This ultimately means that more people than we hope may be given the gift of life. Donate Life State Medical Direc...
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