September 2021
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Northern Health Foundation: How we care for the community, together
Are you aware that Northern Health has its own Foundation? Northern Health Foundation is a formally registered charity with the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profit Commission (ACNC) and has its own board of directors. Established in 2005, the Foundation’s purpose was to increase philanthropic, corporate, and community support for Northern Health services. While this is still
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Stronger together: North Eastern Public Health Unit (NEPHU)
At the beginning of the year, Northern Health became part of the North Eastern Public Health Unit (NEPHU), a team of healthcare workers focusing on the North Eastern region to help manage the COVID-19 outbreak response. Austin Health has been appointed as the lead health service, in collaboration with Northern Health and Eastern Health. Dr
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Care packages for our junior doctors
Our dedicated junior doctors received a special delivery of care packages as part of R U OK? Day from the Junior Medical Staff Association (JMSA) Welfare team, to show their thanks for their incredible work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The R U OK? Day Care Packages filled with goodies were delivered to all junior doctors;
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New COVID-19 outpatient treatment at Northern Hospital
This week, Northern Health launched a new outpatient service to treat patients with COVID-19 in the community. The ‘Sotrovimab Clinic’ is located at Entry 5 of Northern Hospital Epping. In the clinic, staff administer Sotrovimab, a novel monoclonal antibody treatment, intravenously to patients in the community who are unwell with COVID-19. Northern Health is one
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Supporting people with COVID-19
Northern Health has a support program in place for people who have tested positive to COVID-19 in our catchment area. Our COVID Monitor Program provides best practice care for people whom have tested positive for COVID-19, and ensures other health care needs are met whilst in the program. The telephone-monitoring program also helps to prevent
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Healthy meals on the menu
Northern Health patients now have more fresh and healthy meal varieties as our kitchen staff go live with cooking fresh vegetables in their new state of the art industrial kitchen, with three new steamers utilised for this purpose. Our food services department transitioned into the new kitchen in February, which was one of the first
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Interprofessional Passport for Allied Health students
Northern Health Allied Health students and graduates have access to an Interprofessional Passport, designed for students and early career clinicians across all professions including allied health, nursing and medical. The passport is a learner-led and clinically-based suite for interprofessional learning activities. It has been designed to help students and early career clinicians better understand their
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Looking ahead: How will the EMR change our ward rounds?
Northern Health staff are constantly adapting the way we conduct ward rounds to meet new and changing circumstances constantly. With the implementation of our Electronic Medical Record (EMR), the primary function and purpose of the ward rounds will not change with the EMR, but the tools our staff use to access and document information will