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Melbourne Health Matters
Winter 2009 - Issue 24
Awards
Nursing Awards:
* HESTA Nursing Award winner, Jamie Rutherford
* Melbourne Health and NorthWestern Mental Health
Excellence in Nursing Awards:
- Sandra Francione, MH Nurse of the Year
- Julie Lemieux, NWMH Nurse of the Year
- Northern Psychiatric Inpatient Unit
- 3 West Day Procedure Unit
- Boyne Russell House
* Student Erika Duan receives Richard Larkins Prize
* RMH doctor wins Premier's Award
Patient care
* New Emergency Department nears completition
* Young carer and mother join representative
committee
* Middle ground for mental health
* New Coeliac Disease trials commence
* Caring for people with a dual diagnosis
* Comprehensive cancer centre to be built in Parkville
* Sport and music - two staples at Gardenview House
Research
* Research Week 2009 Awards:
- Dr Bob Anderson, Melbourne Boston Research
Exchange Fellowship award recipient
- Dr Bruce Campbell, Cleveland Young Investigator's
Award recipient.
* RMH part of $5 million cancer research centre
Events
* Wellness Trail helps bypass the blues
* Staff get behind bushfire affected communities
* Aiming for a Dry July - to benefit cancer patients and
carers.
* Staff think and act green to care for the environment
* RMH celebrates a unique life in nursing
* Cardiac rehabilitation celebrates 10 years
* Pioneers reunited - celebrating an anaesthetic discovery
Supporters
* Cycle relay raises money for Pallative Care
* Respiratory Medicine thanks RMH Kiosk Auxiliary
Behind the scenes
* Spiros farewells RMH after 44 years
* RMH City Campus staff gym opens
* Bar codes enhance supply system
* Vale: Dave Fisher, Julie Cumberbatch and Sir John
Holland.
Melbourne Health Matters
Spring 2009 - Issue 25
Events
* Home Lottery raises over $1 million for RMH
* Posey Day heralds Spring and cheer
* 10 year milestone for cardiac rehabilitation
Awards
* 2009 Victorian Public Healthcare Awards:
- Cardiac Services recognised with top award
- Quality of Care Report declared metropolitan winner
- Bone Marrow Transplant Team highly commended
- Orygen Youth Health Group Recovery Program highly commended
- Prof Christos Pantelis, Ms Susan Sherson and Prof Len Harrison receive
individual highly commended awards
* Honorary Fellow congratulations for Prof Rob Gibson
Patient care
* New Emergency Department celebrates
* Deep brain stimulation switches on new life for Jamie
* Taking a trip down memory lane - a dementia patient project
* New colours for aged care wards
* Needlefree system implemented
* Innovation grant for aged care nursing
* New beds in the Intensive Care Unit
Supporters
* Perpetual supports patient care with $66,500 grant
* Dry July raises almost $70,000 for cancer patients and families
* Triathlon team raises $8000
* RMH Golf Day - still a classic
Behind the scenes
* Donations of red save lives
* First women doctor's microscope donated
* Saving every drop for garden therapy
* Medical facilities - defence force style
* Influenza Symposium in Melbourne
* Symphony roll-out in the Emergency Department
* New sterilisers installed
* Organ donation nurse appointments
* Staff designed Christmas cards for sale
* Vale Pamela Matthewson
Melbourne Health Matters
Summer 2009-10 - Issue 26
Awards
* Prof Patrick McGorry is 2010 Australian of the Year
* Celebrating at the Best of Health Awards
- Health Care Award: Peter Nuttman and the Imaging Team
- Quality and Safety Award: Toni Howell, RMH Pharmacy
- Research Award: Lisa Barker, Nutrition Department
- Education Award: Finance Business Managers
- Organisational Improvement Award: Melbourne Health Accounts Payable Dept
- 2009 Chairman's Award: The Emergency Department redevelopment group
- RMH Home Lottery Research Award, Three-year Project Grant: Slave Petrovski, BioGrid
Events
* The Nanny visits RMH to promote cancer awareness
* 10th anniversary of RMH trauma service and TAC "Drink and Drive" campaign
* Celebrating our long-serving staff
* A gift to represent honour, dignity and strength
* Celebrating 25 years of kidney care
*Purchase tickets for orchestral event
Patient Care
* RMH staff help separate conjoined twins
* Volunteers make a difference in the Emergency Department
* Quiet room for brain tumour patients
* Cultural understanding extends to indigenous community
* Cardiac survivor thanks her angels
Research
* Discovery of target treatment-resistant leukaemia
Behind the scenes
* Organ donation - a life changing decision
* Our Christmas gift to the community
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