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Short Stay Unit Turns 10
This week marks 10 years since the Short Stay Unit (SSU) was established at Northern Hospital. Officially opened by the Minister for Health at the time, Daniel Andrews, SSU started out small, with only 10 beds. Now, it has grown to 23 beds with over 50 admissions per day. Director of Emergency, Megan Robb, recounts
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Speech Pathology Week: Communicating with Confidence
There are 1.2 million Australians with communication disability. Speech pathologists like Stephanie Bennetts from Northern Health, work with these Australians to help them ‘communicate with confidence’ – which is this year’s Speech Pathology Week theme. Speech Pathology Week runs from 25 – 31 August and is celebrated nationally. Speech Pathology Week is designed to help
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Innovation Challenge with Amazon and Swinburne
Northern Health has partnered with Swinburne University of Technology and Amazon Web Services on an innovation challenge to assist people with diabetes. This collaboration was highlighted last Friday when Northern Health joined the launch of Swinburne University’s Data for Social Good Cloud Innovation Centre. The Centre is one of seven worldwide, and the first of
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Patient, Shaun Carey, on his Northern Health journey
A fifty-nine year old Doreen resident, Shaun Carey, knows Northern Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) all too well, having been in the unit four times in the last twelve months. Shaun was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2014 after doctors found a tumour present. Shaun underwent surgery to have the tumour removed, followed by chemotherapy
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New HITH Chemotherapy Service
Kilmore resident Michael Dunn is one of the first Northern Health patients to use our new Hospital in the Home (HITH) chemotherapy service. Patients receiving chemotherapy for colorectal cancer require a specific regime that includes an infusor filled with chemotherapy to be attached for 46 hours. Until recently, patients would return home once the infusor
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OPAL Clinic empowering women in pregnancy
The Obesity, Pregnancy and Lifestyle (OPAL) clinic at Northern Hospital is a specialised clinic that provides antenatal care to pregnant women with an elevated body mass index (BMI>40) and/or women who have had previous bariatric surgery such as gastric band, gastric sleeve and gastric bypass surgeries. Midwife, Nicole Kuehlich-Zippel, said the clinic offers continuity of
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Sarah Findlay selected for leadership program in New York
Sarah Findlay, social worker from Broadmeadows Hospital, has been selected to attend the ‘International Enhancement of Social Work Leadership Program’ at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and is the first person from Northern Health to ever attend this program. Around Easter time, Associate Director of Allied Health, Penelope Vye, forwarded information on a six
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Heart Failure Unit opens today
The newly established Cardiology Heart Failure (CAHF) Unit commenced their ward rounds today, led by Cardiologist Associate Professor Gautam Vaddadi. A/Prof Vaddadi said Northern Hospital Epping has the biggest cohort of heart failure patients of any tertiary hospital in Victoria, admitting over 2,000 heart failure patients per year. “These patients have high mortality and cost
