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General News
Funds package provides more for
hospitals
The Government has funded a
$321.5 million beds package to treat up to 63,000 extra patients in Victoria’s
public hospitals.
Awards recognise excellent
service
Department of Human Services
Secretary Fran Thorn has described Jill Howard’s Public Service Medal as ‘a
well-deserved honour.’
Cancer fight gets boost
Victoria’s new world-class
cancer precinct is a step closer with the launch of a $5 million cancer
research facility in the Parkville precinct.
Awards for Austin pair
Austin Health researchers
collected two of seven 2008 National Health and Medical Research Council
(NHMRC) Excellence Awards.
International award for
Professor Funder
Southern Health’s Research
Strategy Director Professor John Funder has received the Novartis Award from
the American Heart Association’s Council for High Blood Pressure Research.
Fundraiser award for Eye and Ear
Hospital stalwart
Natalina Paganoni, 96, is a
business woman with a strategy.
Gifts add cheer at Christmas
Gifts donated by Department of
Human Services staff have brightened Christmas for more than 500 Aboriginal
children.
Guidelines for pastoral care
services
A new booklet provides guidance
on the provision of pastoral care facilities in the Victorian healthcare
sector.
Grants honour excellence
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Research Division Deputy Director Professor Joseph Trapani has received a
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) 2008 Excellence Award.
Hi-tech device helps diabetes
management in pregnancy
More women are seeking
continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) device treatment for type one
diabetes at the Alfred Hospital in preparation for pregnancy.
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Metropolitan Health
Sunshine Hospital redevelopment
moves ahead
Residents of Melbourne’s west
will soon have access to even better emergency and radiotherapy services thanks
to the Government’s $92 million redevelopment of Sunshine Hospital.
Non-surgical procedure removes
clot, restores blood flow
Royal Melbourne Hospital doctors
have extracted a blood clot from a man’s brain without open surgery.
Tai chi brings pain relief
Marie Trask remembers when a
simple walk would cause widespread joint and muscle pain.
Fabric of history woven into
tapestry
A four by two metre tapestry
interpreting the history and values of Victoria’s oldest hospital has been
unveiled in the foyer of the Royal Melbourne Hospital as part of its 160th
anniversary celebrations.
Relieving the rehab blues
Former Austin Health patients
have launched a fund-raising CD to support the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation
Centre music therapy program.
Frankston Hospital wins national
stroke award
Local media coverage, road
signage and a community awareness strategy promoting the FAST campaign have
helped Frankston Hospital win the 2008 National Stroke Foundation’s Strokesafe
Award for best metropolitan health team.
Microscope puts melanoma in
spotlight
Alfred Hospital dermatologists
are taking a real-time microscopic look at skin lesions, thanks to the arrival
of a $150,000 laser imaging device.
Royal Melbourne redevelopment
milestone
A major milestone in the $56.3
million redevelopment of the Royal Melbourne Hospital is complete with the
opening of a new front foyer in late 2008.
Cow tissue the key to heart
surgery
A collaborative team from Austin
Health’s Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology Departments implanted a new heart valve
in Bob Symonds, 79, using keyhole surgery and leaving only a small wound
between his ribs.
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Mental Health
Alcohol campaign warns people to
think before they drink
A Government advertising
campaign is warning young Victorians to take responsibility for their actions
and consider the consequences of drinking to excess and violence.
Posters address risk of ‘ice’
use during Peninsula summer
Revellers in Frankston and on
the Mornington Peninsula over Christmas/New Year were confronted with powerful
visual messages on the harms of amphetamines, such as ice, speed and ecstasy.
Researchers share mental health
project grants
Victorian mental health
researchers will share in almost $1.4 million in Government funding for projects
to keep Victoria at the forefront of tackling
depression and other disorders.
Community Services
$400,000 lift for Red Cross
Victorian patient transport scheme
A service helping 20,000
vulnerable Victorians attend medical appointments will get a $400,000
Commonwealth-State funding boost.
Aged Care
Seniors speak up across Victoria
More than 1,400 senior
Victorians had their voices heard through Seniors Speak Up!—an extensive
consultation program about the issues affecting older people.
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Housing
Awards to waterwise
Public housing tenants from
across Victoria celebrated their love of gardening by participating in the
fifth annual Victoria in Bloom competition organised by the Office of Housing.
No Rolling Stones but former
motor inn keeps on rockin’
The innovative Rooming House
Plus project in Queens Road, Melbourne, has just celebrated its third
anniversary of providing support and long-term housing to single people with a
complex range of social, economic and health needs.
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Rural Health
Expanded, renovated emergency
department opens
A major refurbishment of the
emergency department at Central Gippsland Health Service’s Sale campus has been
completed.
Innovative approach to stroke
rehab therapy
Wangaratta occupational
therapist Stacey Manfield has used a Department of Human Services’ Victorian
Home Pathways Scholarship to showcase an innovation to an international
audience in Brazil.
Keeping people out of hospital
Health Minister Daniel Andrews
has toured the Gippsland Region visiting Latrobe Regional Hospital, Orbost
Regional Health, Yarram and District Health Service, South Gippsland Hospital
and Gippsland Southern Health Service.
New CEO for Central Gippsland
Health
Frank Evans has taken up his new
role as Chief Executive Officer of Central Gippsland Health Service.
Tongala community embraces
service
Community Health Tongala has
been recognised in the general practice/community health section of the
National Stroke Foundation Strokesafe Awards.
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Public Health
Sending a World AIDS Day message
The Department of Human Services
received unprecedented demand for 2008 World AIDS Day promotional materials
from secondary schools across Victoria.
Disability Services
A wheel good project
Because Department of Human
Services Community Residential Unit staff may need to transport up to four or
five passengers on any trip, they can often be found behind the wheel of a
minibus.
Boost for day services
Disability day services across
Victoria will benefit from an $824,000 State Government funding package.
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