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Concord Hospital General Manager: Matthew Swanborough Concord Repatriation General Hospital is a principal referral facility and a teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. It offers a comprehensive range of specialty and sub-specialty services, many recognised nationally and internationally as centres of excellence. HIGHLIGHTS This year the hospital launched several new services, including: • A 14-chair Satellite Dialysis Unit, allowing residents to access renal services closer to home, reducing the burden of travel. • The Concord Cancer Centre, offering cutting-edge patientcentred care, where individuals and their families are empowered to make informed choices about the best treatment options. • Concord was fortunate to receive a number of grants. The Minister for Health and Minister for Medical Research, Jillian Skinner, presented a $3.5 million grant to the Asbestos Disease Research Institute. $3.4 million was also granted to the ANZAC Research Institute for the diagnosis and treatment of blood cancers. • The hospital also procured a new CT scanner in the Radiology Department and new CT gamma camera in the Nuclear Medicine Department. THE YEAR AHEAD THE YEAR AHEAD • A nine-month trial of the ‘Enhance Recovery After Surgery’ program will soon start representing a radical, but intuitive, departure from traditional perioperative models of care. • A 20-bed purpose built palliative care inpatient unit will also be built providing a place for patients, their carers and relatives to be cared for, both medically and psychologically. • The Concord Medical Education Centre, a state of-the-art medical education facility. The new centre is a partnership between the University of Sydney, the federal government and Concord Hospital. Ten years in the planning, the centre is the brainchild of Concord Hospital medical staff, Sydney Medical School and the community. We also acknowledge and thank our tireless volunteers who assist CRGH with fundraising and our patients. Thank you! “My letter of commendation is not clouded by my joy of recovery and no matter the outcome would have been forthcoming. If public health need funding improvements or staff salary increases, then I can concur that these rewards would be well deserved. Whatever you do, don’t reinvent the wheel that is turning so wonderfully and rhythmically towards exceptional performance.” – Warren Mallard Receiving ANZAC ADRI Cancer Grant Celebrating our 70th Birthday 8 SYDNEY LOCAL HEALTH DISTRICT 2011/12 REVIEW
Stephen Saldatos Head Gardener NEW 14-CHAIR RENAL DIALYSIS UNIT OPENED Next time you walk around the spectacular gardens at Concord Hospital give a little thanks to Head Gardener Stephen Saldatos and his team. Steven has worked for District for five years with three of these at Concord Hospital. Mr Saldatos of West Ryde, is an arborist by trade and previously worked at Centennial Park and the Chinese Gardens at Darling Harbour. The Minister for Health and Minister for Medical Research, Jillian Skinner officially opened a new $1.6 million renal dialysis unit at Concord in January 2012. The new 14-chair satellite dialysis unit allows residents to use a centre closer to home for their regular dialysis sessions, reducing the burden of travel for these patients. The unit is expected to provide more than 8,700 dialysis treatments a year to 56 outpatients. The unit, within the Hospital’s Medical Centre Building, was Thank you! “John was transferred to HDU from surgery where he received the most caring, kindest, professional nursing I have ever encountered. My family and I will never forget the care John received from the dedicated staff.” – Carol Poole. allocated $1.6 million by the NSW Ministry of Health and the set-up took nine months to complete. Concord’s Head of Renal Medicine, Dr Martin Gallagher, said the purposebuilt centre was staffed by a multidisciplinary team and fitted with the most sophisticated equipment available. “Dialysis patients can need to spend between five and six hours on one treatment session, and up to three sessions per week,” Dr Gallagher said. “Having a state-of-the art unit closer to home is going to be so much more convenient for patients.” Thank you! “I had to attend the ultrasound department and found the staff there treated every patient with courtesy, kindness and respect, taking great pains explaining the procedure and allaying any fears. You are to be congratulated on your staff and the manner in which they treat their patients.” – Janne Flarrety. Heading a team of five, one of the many things he enjoys most about his job is seeing a project come to fruition especially if it includes tree work, cutting and pruning back branches to optimise light and shade for staff and patients. Molly Smith Volunteer Not even a fractured coccyx kept Molly Smith from her volunteer duties at Concord Hospital. The 92-year-old has been volunteering her services for 25 years, often catching two buses to the hospital to help assist with filing in Staff Health and provide “motherly support” to nervous new starters needing injections. Mrs Smith, one of 6300 hospital volunteers across NSW, retired from nursing at Concord Hospital in 1991, but returned almost immediately to offer her time for free. “Tremendously great things have happened here,” she says. SYDNEY LOCAL HEALTH DISTRICT 2011/12 REVIEW 9
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Page 5 and 6: Members of the Board The Sydney Loc
Page 7 and 8: Chief Executive’s Review Dr Teres
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