General News
Team
praised for support of colleague
The Department of Human
Services' Freedom of Information Unit has been acknowledged by Vision
Australia for its support of trainee Deanne Diamandis.
Exhibition
ties Mercy hospital to its past
Having left the Mercy
Hospital for Women as a newborn in 1971, Charlie Sublet returned
in mid-2005 to document the closure of its East Melbourne site.
Multicultural
focus for forum on women
A Mercy Hospital for
Women seminar targets midwives, social workers, nurses and allied
health professionals with an interest in multicultural women's health.
Garden
tour conference feature
The Horticultural Therapy
Association of Victoria (HTAV) 2006 State Conference will feature
a tour of the Royal Talbot Acquired Brain Injury Unit sensory garden.
Web
guide helps chronically ill
A new Chronic Illness
Alliance internet guide will make life a little easier for those
affected by chronic illness.
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Metropolitan Health
$1.5
million funding for Peninsula Health Services
Emergency hospital
services on the Mornington Peninsula will be expanded as part of
a $1.5 million boost announced by Health Minister Bronwyn Pike.
Vocal
praise for successful Botox treatment
Botox may have a reputation
as a cosmetic drug but for people like Denise Zagni it has been
a lifeline.
Research
shows a screen in time may save lives
Until recently, gastroenterologists
the world over thought screening patients for liver tumours was
a futile exercise.
Psychosocial
help for cancer patients
A $1.4 million partnership
will establish Australia's first program supporting the psychological
needs of people with cancer and their families.
Faster
care for Victorian kids with cancer
Children with cancer
will get better, faster, more co-ordinated treatment closer to home
with the official opening of the new Children's Cancer Centre at
the Monash Medical Centre.
Hi-tech
imagery helps at the Royal Children's
Wireless technology
is helping out at the Royal Children's Hospital.
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Public Health
Outreach
program meets many and complex needs
The innovative community-based
Alfred Hospital Outreach Case Management Service is delivering positive
results after a recent survey found it to be very beneficial.
Stakeholders
collaborate to plan for healthy cities
More than 230 participants
from a wide range of backgrounds took part in a Planning Healthy
Cities: Building Community Capital forum.
Initiative
builds bridges in the community
The Victorian Health
Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) is investing almost $700,000 in
a program to reduce discrimination facing people from migrant and
refugee backgrounds.
Women
walk towards a better future
The Blazing Blues walking
team in Maldon's Tarrengower Women's Prison took nearly 15 million
steps to win the 2006 Mount Alexander Walk It Workplace Pedometer
Challenge.
HIV
research shows promise
A substantial grant
from a highly-respected American AIDS research foundation will allow
Alfred Hospital Infectious Diseases Unit Director Professor Sharon
Lewin to study latent HIV infection—the 'hidden' killer in
this epidemic.
Conference
to showcase novel obesity programs
Visits to sites implementing
innovative community-based obesity prevention programs will precede
the community-based Obesity Prevention conference in Geelong.
Disability Services
Scooter
safety booklet distributed statewide
A locally-produced
booklet showing the safe way to use motorised scooters and wheelchairs
has been updated and reprinted to help people throughout Victoria.
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Office for Children
$15
million to reduce child abuse and neglect
A $15 million statewide
program will reduce child abuse and neglect.
Helping
to protect our children
Two new publications
prepared by Child Safety Commissioner Bernie Geary aim to protect
all Victorian children from harm.
Kits
encourage safe sleeping for kids
SIDS and Kids has developed
resource kits for child care service providers containing practical
information to ensure sleeping policies meet national best practice
guidelines.
Juvenile
justice centre in NAIDOC observance
Visitors from Victoria's
Aboriginal community organisations, Koorie Juvenile Justice Program
workers, inspiring performances, speakers and a delicious meal made
NAIDOC celebrations at Melbourne Juvenile Justice Centre (MJJC)
a day to remember.
Expert
to lead child and family welfare research
Professor Cathy Humphreys
has taken up a Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
research chair to support collaboration between the University of
Melbourne School of Social Work and community service organisations.
Community Health
Funds
boost helps children thrive
A State Government
funding boost will expand child health services in Melbourne's south-east
growth corridor.
Aged Care
Victoria
champions quality in aged care service
A statewide initiative
will improve quality of care in Victorian public sector residential
aged care services.
Lyndoch
stage two opened
Aged Care Minister
Gavin Jennings has opened the redeveloped Lyndoch Centre in Warrnambool,
one of the major providers of aged care residential services in
the south west.
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Office of Housing
Charter
for the homeless
Homeless Victorians
requiring assistance from Victoria's community housing and homeless
support agencies now have their own charter of rights and responsibilities.
Apartment
doors open on a new life
Thirty-one people on
low incomes have moved into new homes of their own with the opening
of Woodstock, an apartment building in Balaclava.
Mental Health
Program
helps troubled young people find better futures
A program designed
to keep young people in school and out of trouble has helped 219
students find their way towards a better future.
Mental
health in young people focus of congress
A child and adolescent
mental health conference in Melbourne invites participants to confront
challenges to the psychological wellbeing and human rights of infants,
children, young people and families.
Rural and Regional Health
$14
million overhaul for RAV communications
The State Government
will provide $14 million for a major overhaul of rural ambulance
communications in Victoria.
Hospital
hosts a display of golden daffodils
The Chemotherapy Department
at Gippsland Southern Health Service has organised a mass planting
of daffodils in support of local people affected by cancer.
Suite
delivers cultural comfort
Years of hard work
and dedication to indigenous women's birthing paid off as the Goulburn
Valley Base Hospital devoted one of its delivery suites to indigenous
women as part of NAIDOC week.
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Team
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