2020

Our Residential In-Reach program provides specialist medical and nursing support to nursing homes seven days a week. With COVID-19, due to multiple outbreaks in our catchment, the team have substantially increased both medical and nursing staffing to meet the demand. With the recent outbreaks in St Basil’s and Heritage Epping Gardens, Dr Sandra Brown and

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“We are in this together”… This has been one of the most commonly used phrases during the COVID-19 pandemic that people from all over the world have been using in solidarity. Together makes up one of our news values here at Northern Health, along with Safe and Kind – the three of which will help us to achieve our vision

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, we have been extremely impressed by the response of all of our dedicated staff – who have all been model examples of how we incorporate one of our new values into our everyday work – Together. This afternoon, Siva Sivarajah, Chief Executive, led a Virtual All-Staff Forum to provide an

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Collaborating with community organisations and research partners is a key focus for Northern Health, so we can continue to work together to create a healthier community. La Trobe University researchers working to prevent premature births among socially disadvantaged and vulnerable women recently secured $1.6 million over four years from the Medical Research Future Fund’s “Preventative

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This week, we have been looking at the second of our values – ‘Kind’, and how it helps us in ‘making a difference for every person, every day’. As Deb Bourne, our Acting Chief Operating Officer explained, “When we treat our staff with kindness, we actually are saying…they are important and adding value and they

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Northern Health’s Strategic Plan 2020-24 has five priorities, including one that focuses on our innovative, sustainable future. The goal of working towards a future that enables innovation and is focused on sustainability means that, as an organisation, we will focus on building and maintaining strong financial management and eliminating waste and inefficiencies. Waste can be

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Kindness is a key value of Northern Health, as is presented in our Northern Health Strategic Plan 2020-24. It is also central to our response to the pandemic and the Northern Health COVID-19 Positive Community Monitoring Program. The program is a telephone-based service providing both an imaginative and compassionate response for people that test positive

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Hospital stays can sometimes be long and challenging and, at times scary, especially for children. With this in mind, Narrun Wilip-giin (Aboriginal Support Unit), has developed a colouring book to be provided to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children during their hospital journey at Northern Health. The book was launched today on National Aboriginal and

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