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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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    Water Safety at Charlies 14 February 2022 We acknowledge that the report in the media (external site) today focusing on the detection of Legionella in the water system at SCGH (12 February 2022) has caused distress and concern among our staff, patients and visitors. We remain committed to being open and transparent with our patients and their families and the cases referred to in today’s media article were no exception to this commitment. Legionella is a bacterium that lives in water. The finding of Legionella in a water system is not unusual - in fact your household water pipework is likely to contain the same bacteria, especially if not regularly flushed. SCGH has had a robust water testing regime in place for many years, and when there is a detection we immediately remediate it, including replacing fixtures and fittings and retesting until there is a negative result. Legionella is killed by chlorine just like other bac...
  • Michael Hedderwick from NMHS and Jake Cillie from IPG
    Energy efficient right from the entrance 07 February 2022 QEII’s multideck carpark had a makeover from above recently when its owner IPG replaced more than 1500 globes in order to increase efficiency and decrease costs. IPG’s commitment to reducing its carbon footprint is in line with NMHS’s own Climate and Sustainability Program, which aims to reduce NMHS’s environmental footprint and deliver sustainable high-quality care. The general and emergency fluorescent lighting over the aisles and parking bays in the multi-deck car park were replaced with energy efficient LED lighting over two stages, with 340 emergency lights and a further 1192 light fittings replaced over a three-month period in 2021. Benefits realised from the project include a 22% energy saving and an estimated reduction of 165 tonnes of carbon emissions per annum. Further projects being planned by IPG for the QEII Medical Centre Multideck Car Park are: ...
  • BreastScreen bus and staff
    World Cancer Day, February 4 Close the Care Gap 05 February 2022 BreastScreen WA - caring for more WA women than ever before BreastScreen WA (BSWA) is excited about the year ahead as it plans to open more breast cancer screening clinics, increase clinic capacity and expand their mobile units. This important planning work will go a long way towards closing the care gap, which is also this year’s World Cancer Day theme. “Close the Care Gap” is all about raising awareness of the equity gap that affects almost everyone. The BSWA Strategic Operations Plan 2030 prioritises where new screening clinics and expansion of current rooms will open, based on population projection data of WA women aged 40-74. BSWA opened its new Albany clinic in July 2021 and has recently expanded the screening capacity at its Mirrabooka and Padbury clinics. “These new screening rooms and the recruitment of extra Medical Imaging Technology staff will mean t...
  • Cervical screening saves lives poster
    Cancer screening campaign for the LGBTQI+ community – Screening saves lives 04 February 2022 World Cancer Day 2022 theme is “Close the care Gap”, and WA’s cancer screening program teams for bowel, breast and cervical have joined forces to share the message that ‘Screening saves lives’, with new resources focusing on the LGBTIQ+ community. The LGBQTI+ community is somewhat resistant to seeking medical help out of fear and are an under screened community and the aim is to increase awareness of, and participation in, these lifesaving programs. A collaboration between BreastScreen WA, the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program, and the WA Cervical Cancer Prevention Program has been created as a direct response to this, with advocacy work and communication being undertaken in the background to ensure acceptance and understanding is in place more widely. The first of the materials was seen at the PRIDE Fair in November, featuring community members from ...
  • Remi Toluwade with Acting Head of Social Welfare, Michelle
    Training WA award recipient - Graylands 01 February 2022 As a Welfare Officer with Graylands Hospital’s Extended Care Service (HECS), Remi Toluwade (seen here with Winner Remi with Acting Head of Social Welfare, Michelle) won the Department of Training and Workforce Development’s Cultural Diversity Training Award and was also Ambassador of the Year for North Metro TAFE, 2021. WA Training recently requested Remi to put on her Ambassador hat for the VET sector again and be part of a photo shoot at Graylands Hospital, to promote the launch of the 2022 WA Training Awards program. The award Remi won recognises the achievement of a culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) student who ‘…displays a strong understanding and knowledge of the vocational education and training system, demonstrating the relevance of lifelong learning for themselves and the migrant community’. Migrating from Nigeria in 2015, Remi has a deg...
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