Northern Health has had an impressive 2018-19 year! In our rapidly growing community, we are continually improving our services and care to meet demand. To support our increasing population, Northern Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) treated more than 107,000 presentations, continuing on from last year as the busiest ED in the state. We admitted 98,193 patients

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With the temperatures rising to 43 degrees today, it’s important to stay safe and protected from the heat, as well as to keep an eye on the fire warnings. Jason Amos, Manager, Emergency Management, said today is an Extreme Fire Danger Day in Central and North Central Districts along with most of the State of

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Thi Nguyen, Nurse Unit Manager Ward 4, won the ‘2019 Clinical Excellence Award’ at this year’s Northern Health Annual Meeting. This annual award came after her winning the ‘Above and Beyond’ at the Staff Recognition Awards in July this year. She was nominated by Sue Pike, Operations Director Medicine, who said Ward 4 is a

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The children at Northern Hospital were not allowed to forget it is Christmas, with presents and visits from Santa facilitated by a host of kind hearted individuals and community – minded organisations. This year too ISS Facility Services held their annual Christmas Appeal for presents for those children spending time at Northern Hospital over the

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It’s that time of the year again, when our staff and volunteers get together to decorate their favourite work areas and bring joy to our patients, visitors and their families. Like in the previous years, our Christmas decorating competition has attracted numerous creative entries across four Northern Health’s campuses. Northern Health judges, including Debra Bourne,

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This week, Northern Health staff and volunteers were treated to festive Christmas BBQ lunches at Broadmeadows Hospital, Northern Hospital, Craigieburn Centre and Bundoora Centre. These BBQs are a chance to celebrate the end of another fantastic year of providing care to our community. Staff and volunteers enjoyed some lunch and holiday cheer with colleagues, with

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In 2019, growth in demand for Northern Health’s services continued, and we’ve recognised that we can’t do things the same way we have in the past.  That why we’ve established a new Staying Well program to help supporting and caring for patients at home, so that not all patients need to come into hospital. We’ve

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This year, there have been a number of nursing and midwifery achievements that I have been proud of. The first would be the Graduate Nurses and Midwives Quality Projects, with over 130 projects completed and their posters displayed in the corridors at the Northern Hospital. There was real depth within these projects, and they provided a good

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