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Happy 60th Birthday OPH! 29 March 2022 Today is a very special day… Osborne Park Hospital is turning 60! Opened on this day in 1962, OPH originally served the general medical and maternity needs of the City of Stirling catchment. Quickly becoming known for its friendly, caring and efficient atmosphere, our hospital saw 76 admissions in its first full month (April 1962), served around 1,300 patients in its first year, and by 1966 had admitted 10,000 patients – those were the days! From humble beginnings, OPH now plays a key role in how we deliver specialist health care services to the north metropolitan area. In early 2021, OPH and SCGH became truly one health care group, with a divisional restructure to deliver the two sites, one service vision for SCGOPHCG. With 187 beds and nearly 600 staff, our dedicated team at OPH cared for more than 103,595 patients in 2021. We’ve seen significant developments at the... -
OPH staff get on the front foot with falls 16 March 2022 Staff from right across OPH Ward 5 came together last month in an initiative to help reduce patient falls. Dubbed the Fantastic Five February Falls Fiesta, the initiative was led by Christine Williamson (Clinical Nurse Manager), and saw teams from Pharmacy, Nursing, Physio, OT, and Medical working together to create displays designed to educate and raise awareness around falls. Falling while in hospital is a serious risk for patients and can result in injury or increased mortality rates. There are many risk factors which have been identified as contributing to in-patient falls and for each of these, strategies can be put in place which mitigate the risk. Some of the most common factors patients can be affected by include: Poor mobility and/or balance Cognition impairment Medications Elimination problems Foot conditions and/or inadequate footwear Previous falls S... -
SCGH High Risk Foot Service (HRFS) achieves accreditation as a Centre of Excellence 26 February 2022 The SCGH High Risk Foot Service (HRFS) is a multidisciplinary service which meets the needs of patients with complex diabetes related foot complications. It brings together the specialties of Vascular, Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology, Podiatry and Nursing (including Silver Chain Liaison Nurse) and provides care to patients with limb threatening diabetic foot ulcers and infections, and other complex foot disorders such as Charcot neuroarthropathy. Established in May 2019, the service offers an outpatient multidisciplinary clinic (the MDFU) located in the SCGH Podiatry department, and an inpatient diabetic foot unit (SCGH), and has links to the amputee rehabilitation service (OPH) and Hospital in the Home (Homelink) Service which provides care to patients in their own homes. After three years of operation, the SCGH High Risk Foot Service now helps around 60 outpatients each month and pe... -
Farewell and thanks for Cesarita Marzo 16 February 2022 The final days of a dedicated career will be celebrated on 23 February for Cesarita ‘Ces’ Marzo, the Head of Department, Nutrition and Dietetics at SCGOPHCG. After some 18 years at the helm of the department and more than 45 years in the profession, Ces is hanging up her uniform for the last time but not before her colleagues acknowledge her incredible contribution. Prior to joining SCGH in October 2003, Ces established dietetic services at the Mount Hospital and Joondalup Health Service as well as earlier in Queensland. She was a Director for the Dietitian Association of Australia and provided leadership and advocacy for the specified callings work value case for dietetic industry. In her role here at SCGH, Ces demonstrated leadership across several platforms, all for the common good of the department, for dietetics and for the hospital. Ces advocated for and established the... -
Added service to our inpatients 04 February 2022 As a health service, we’re committed to providing inpatient COVID-19 vaccinations to at-risk priority population groups. To support this initiative the ‘Mobile COVID-19 Vaccination Team’ is coordinating and managing the vaccination of inpatients at SCGH and OPH. Inpatients are eligible for a wide range of reasons including those at high risk of serious COVID-19 disease, those considered vulnerable and those in long stay with us. Once eligibility is determined, the treating team medical officer ill prescribe the vaccine and the vaccination team visit the patient and administer the dose. Thanks to our hardworking vaccination team including Clinical Nurse Manager Sandra Vinciguerra, who is vaccinating across both hospitals and additional wards as required. Thanks Sandra and the whole team!
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05/05/2021