Northern Health celebrated NAIDOC Week with an official launch in the Northern Hospital front foyer. NAIDOC originally stands for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee’. Its origins can be traced to the emergence of Aboriginal groups in the 1920′s, which sought to increase awareness in the wider community of the status and treatment of

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As part of our Winter Strategy, the team have been looking at different ways to support patients in their transition from hospital to home. That is how the targeted, population-specific Supported Transition to Assist Recovery (STAR) program was born and launched yesterday. Dr Katharine See, Director of Respiratory Medicine, said the team identified the age group

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Lauren Scott, Care Coordinator in the Transition Care Program (TCP), received the ‘Rising Star’ award at our recent Quarterly Staff Recognition Awards. She was nominated by Vanessa Goss from Bundoora Transition Care, who said Lauren was successfully able to reinvent herself as a Care Coordinator and utilise her previous experience as a social worker to

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The Stow Family Garden was originally established at Northern Hospital by the Stow Family in 1998, and has recently been rejuvenated by Stows Waste Management, together with the Northern Health Foundation. Managing Director of Stows Waste Management, Paul Stow, said, “The Stow Family Garden was donated by my parents, Neil and Wynette Stow. Following in

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The Kath Atkinson Wing (KAW) at Bundoora Centre provides care, evaluation and management of individuals who are experiencing cognitive decline and medical illness. Recently, the KAW nurses received the award for ‘Patient Experience’ at the Quarterly Staff Recognition Awards. The team were nominated by Lilian Oparanozie, who said, “KAW unit is a challenging unit with

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Can you tell us why you chose a career in nursing? Nursing has always been something I wanted to do from a young age, and I set myself a plan on how to achieve this as soon as I got to high school. Unfortunately, I lost my mum to cancer when I was eight. During

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Builder appointed for Stage 2 Expansion Project at Northern Hospital The Minister for Health has approved Kane Constructions as the main works builder for the Stage 2 Expansion Project at Northern Hospital. Kane have extensive experience in building public hospital infrastructure. This next stage will increase the tower from three to seven floors, including three

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The education evening on ‘Osteoarthritis – Joint Management with General Practice’, is an example of how Northern Health is working collaboratively with the General Practitioner (GP) for the best patient outcome. It was initiated by our Orthopaedic Department and developed and coordinated through the Primary Care Liaison Unit. Seventeen GP’s attended the event, which sought

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