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Melbourne Health Matters
Spring/Summer 2010-11 Issue 28
Patients and carers
* Kidney recipients celebrate 40 years more life
* Central number for mental illness
* New home provides key to prevention and recovery
* Northern families receive support
* Teamwork more than a stroke of luck for David
* Family's gift to benefit future dialysis patients
Awards and honours
* Mental health shines in public healthcare awards
* Celebrating the Best of Health Awards:
- Develop our workforce: Business Development Unit - Improvement training
- Improving the quality and safety of our services: Thyroid Cancer Multidisciplinary
Team - Improving Thyroid Cancer Care for better patient outsomes
- Develop and encourage strategic relationships (joint winners):
> Heartwise Team - Community-based chronic heart failure program
> Human Resources - Worlds of Work building positive relationships with our
future workforce
- Foster a culture of research and innovation: Cardiac Genetic Clinic
- Build a sustainable organisation: Comprehensive Stroke Centre - RMH
* Chairman's Award: Dr Mike Catton, Director VIDRL
* Melbourne Health 10-year Anniversary Awards winners:
- Individual: Assoc prof Leeanne Grigg, Director Cardiology
- Team: Gardenview complex care facility interdisciplinary team
* Jane Bell Scholarships:
- Jayne Amy, Vascular Access Coordinator, North West Dialysis Service
- Cathy Daniel, Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Nurse, MOCA Trainer
* Victor-Hurley Medical Research Fund Grant-in-Aid: Benjamin Cowie, VIDRL
* RMH Home Lottery Research Awards Project Grant: Elizabeth Vincan,
Molecular/Cancer VIDRL
* Grants-in-Aid:
- Nursing/Allied Health: Barnaby Nelson, Allied Health/Orygen Youth Health
- Early Career Researcher: Anita Skandarajah, Combined Breast Service
- General: Julian Bosco, Clinical Immunology; Kate Drummond, Neurosurgery; and
Christopher Yates, Diabetes & Endocrinology.
* Watt-Geyer Memorial Research Fund Grants-in-Aid:
- Liver Cancer: Peter Revill, VIDRL
- Brain Cancer: Michael Wong, Neurosurgery
Supporters
* Annual Golf Classic another winner
* A positive outlook brings music to patient's ears - from the Cara Family
* RMH says thanks for lending a hand
* Carolers help bring Christmas cheer to patients
* RMH Lottery turns Geelong woman into instant millionaire
Events
* John Cade Building marks 10th anniversary
* Posy Day a delight for patients
* Plaque unveiled for histroy's three wise men
* Prostate cancer symposium a huge success
Behind the scenes
* World leprosy expert retires from RMH
* Janney cleans up with hand hygiene
* Australia's first Stroke Nurse practitioner appointed |
Melbourne Health Matters
Autumn/Winter 2010 - Issue 27
Awards and honours
* Melbourne Health and NorthWestern Mental Health Excellence in Nursing Awards:
- Matthew Lowe, MH Nurse of the Year
- Jo Sammut, NWMH Nurse of the Year
- Cancer Services, Nursing Management and Education Leadership Team,
RMH Acute Team Excellence Award
- Home Dialysis Service, RMH Sub-acute/Aged Care/Dialysis Team Excellence Award
- Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit (AMHRU), NWMH Nursing Team Excellence Award
* Queen's Birthday Honours
- Prof Jim Angus
- Prof Patrick McGorry
- Assoc Prof Harry Mond
* Prof Kate Leslie elected President of the Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
* International recognition for cardiac investigators Dr Caroline Medi and Dr Haris Haqqani
Patient care
* New Northern Psychiatric Unit wing boosts the north's psychiatric services
* New directory for Whittlesea mental health carers
* BreaCan peer support for women facing breast cancer
* Volunteers are key to improving connectiveness of older patients
* Saving stroke victims 400km away
* Watchman device keeps blood flowing through heart
Supporters
* A couple's $900,000 gift funds 20 years of cancer research
* RMH Dialysis Support Group celebrates 10 years
* Birthday donations - a cause for celebration
* Going dry for RMH cancer patients during Dry July
* RMH Home Lottery is back
Events
* RMH joins moving memorial to the hospital ship, Centaur
* Governor launches historic RMH Patient Index
* Healing through music
- Secondary Schools Live Music Festival
- RMH Revue, staff extravaganza
- Operatic voice in the folds
- RMH doctors' orchestra
- Give the gift of music
* Gold medallist opens renovated rehabilitation ward
* Time capsule buried for the hospital's 200th anniversary
* Memorial services for family and friends
Research
* Cart-Wheel of hope for people with rare tumours
Behind the scenes
* Exchange program links RMH and China's Tianjin Medical University General Hospital
* New patient system (iPM) launched across Melbourne Health
* Rising star in elder abuse DVD
* Beds donated to Chilean hospitals following earthquake
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