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Stretching for stress
reduction
Entertainment at your fingertips
Entertainment can sometimes be
the best medicine, or at least a good
distraction, when tending to your
health needs.
In 2011, Mater introduced the
‘patient entertainment system’ to
Yoga offers benefits to Mater patients.
its South Brisbane campus offering
patients access to digital television,
select cable channels, movies
on demand, music, audio books,
radio, internet as well as general
health information—all from the
convenience of their bedside.
Mater cares for people. Taking
a holistic approach to health,
our care extends past treatment
and we’re constantly looking to
improve the quality of life for our
patients—which can come in
many and often unlikely forms.
Research shows that cancer
patients who practice yoga
experience lower stress, improved
arm mobility and strength as well
as greater flexibility. With this in
mind, Mater introduced free yoga
sessions to breast cancer sufferers
at the Redland campus. The yoga
teacher creates the exercises
especially to support patients
after breast cancer surgery.
The weekly sessions, funded by
Mater chicks in pink program,
are available to all breast cancer
patients irrespective of where
they were treated.
Designed in-house, the state-of-theart
entertainment system has been
a great success for patients and has
attracted commercial interest from
across the world.
Community support enables patient
transport
Thanks to the generous support
of the Bayside community, Mater
purchased a vehicle for its Redland
campus in June 2011 to help
transport patients and support home
visits by occupational therapists.
Long-time Mater supporter and
Redlands Sporting Club President
Don Seccombe approached Oldmac
Toyota after hearing that patients
could benefit from transport and
home visits.
The purchase of a Toyota Corolla
Seca was made possible thanks
to generous donations from Mater
Foundation, Redlands Sporting Club,
the Mater Private Hospital Redland
Ladies’ Auxiliary and Oldmac Toyota.
Sleep studies reach Redland community
Mater expanded its sleep unit to
Redland in 2011 offering sleep
study assessments to the bayside
community.
The Queensland Sleep Disorders
Unit offers a range of diagnostic
testing to diagnose and treat
obstructive sleep apnoea—
including snoring—as well as a
wide range of more complex sleep
disorders.
The Queensland Sleep Disorders
Unit first conducted sleep
studies in 1995 and have four
Improved patient transport, thanks to community fundraising.
laboratories in Brisbane along with
regional centres in Bundaberg,
Rockhampton, Townsville and
Cairns.
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