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23“Not a bad effort for a big man in a red suitwith a somewhat unruly bunch of reindeer.At the Warrnambool ceremony Terry Lynchstole the show. The 60-year-old Warrnamboolcampus Environmental Services Worker andWeekend Supervisor started his career withSWH in the laundry in the 60s. Reflecting onhis 40 years of service he says he’s loved everyminute of it.Jenny Hirth flew the flag for SWH’s Lismorecampus. The Primary Care Co-Coordinatorclocked up 15 years at her rurally isolatedcommunity health centre. At the Macarthurcampus (the organisation’s other rurally isolatedcommunity health centre) Manager CatherineLoria hit the decade-mark and CommunityHealth Nurse Joanne Last hit a double-decade.The longest-serving Camperdown campusworker to be recognised was District Nursing’sHelen Wilson. She clocked up 30 years.‘While many regional health services throughoutAustralia face enormous challenges in recruitingand retaining staff, we are extremely fortunate,’says SWH Chief Executive Officer JohnKrygger. ‘We pride ourselves on being anemployer of choice and I guess that the numberof high quality, long serving staff is testamentto this fact.’Believed to be the only doctor in the entireSouth West region to provide prescriptionsand day-to-day treatment to people livingwith AIDS, the work of a SWH Alcohol andDrugs Physician Dr David Richards hasbeen honored. Dr David Richards, in the leadup to December’s World AIDS Day receiveda People Living with HIV/AIDS Award forClinical Excellence.Involved in intervention, prevention andeducation awareness programs related to bloodborne viruses like HIV/AIDS and HepatitisC, David has also helped develop desperatelyneeded networks in local communities to assistpeople living with chronic illness. Accepting theaward he acknowledged the significant role hisworkplace, the Western Region Alcohol & DrugCentre, plays in providing support to a group ofpeople so incredibly marginalised.In August David was inducted into the Alcohol& Other Drugs Hall of Fame for havingmade an exceptional difference to treatment,prevention, education, policy and research onthe Rural Victorian alcohol and drugs front.SWH’s Jason Mifsud returned fromCanberra in December after graduatingfrom the Australian Indigenous LeadershipCentre. The Koori Health Manager was oneof 24 Indigenous Australians, and only thethird Victorian in seven years, selected to do thenationally accredited Certificate II in IndigenousLeadership.The Manager of SWH’s Aboriginal programsfor almost nine years, including a two-yearsecondment to the University Department ofRural Health at Deakin University Warrnambool,sees one of Indigenous Australia’s most criticalchallenges to be that of influencing policy inorder to secure more adequate funding to furtherdevelop critically needed programs.”Christmas-time saw a SWH tradition hit anew high when Santa flew into Warrnamboolfrom the North Pole for the 75th year in arow. While Rudolph and his mates munchedtheir way through a row of Hospital GardenerBonnie Grant’s hydrangeas, Santa teamed upwith Warrnambool’s Holiday Actors to visit142 patients. Each got presents and their ownpersonal photo with Santa. And each wasserenaded, carols-style, by 20 teenagers who sanglike angels.Even SWH got a present. The Nestle Sports& Social Club (who sends Santa) organisedthe surprise delivery of a $5,000 lifesavingrapid heat infuser (known as a Hotline) for ourWarrnambool Theatre Complex.An inspiring youth-led community projecthas backyard-blitzed SWH’s LismoreCommunity Health Centre. The result isa stunning community garden and outdoorentertainment area. For 12 months Year-10Derrinallum P12 students worked with staffat the campus, Corangamite Shire’s Aged andDisability Coordinator Gwenyth Rogers, Lismoreand Derrinallum Adult Day Activity Centremembers, shire workers and local tradespeopleto research, develop and design the garden.Principal Michael Castersen commended hisstudents and the commitment of the staff atLismore Community Health who dedicatedendless voluntary hours to ensuring such asuccessful end-result.In true Lismore-Derrinallum style theassignment evolved courtesy of a terrificcommunity spirit. Derrinallum Red Cross, SWH’sLismore Auxiliary and individual communitymembers have generously contributed to thefit out that includes outdoor settings, seedlings,plants, ceramic pots and canvas sails while localtradesman John Reichman has helped prepareand lay the pavers and install the overhead sails.During the official opening SWH CommunityHealth Manager Craig Fraser summed up thecosmetic changes as amazing. ‘The project isa great result. It’s so user-friendly and will beutilised by the wider community,’ he told thegathering.SWH won a Victorian award in Marchfor providing what’s been described asextraordinary compassion. SWH’s NursingManagement Team was nominated for TheCompassionate Friends 2006 CompassionateEmployer Award by SWH Associate UnitManager Sheryl McLauchlan for the supportshe received from the moment her youngestchild became critically ill, before dying in
Melbourne four weeks later.TCF Patron Rhonda Galbally AO told thegathering SWH’s role model attitude had goneabove and beyond standard bereavementpractices and that she hoped more businesseswould follow in our steps. ‘Patience andunderstanding is essential in today’s workplace,’she said. ‘It is hoped that as more employers arerecognised for being aware of their employeesspecial needs, compassion in the workplace willbecome standard practice.’The Warrnambool Emergency Departmentof SWH swung into party-mode earlier thisyear when it became one of 28 Warrnamboollocations to be filmed in a video clip tocelebrate the impending arrival of theQueen’s Baton Relay on March 4. SWH’s castincluded Nurses Yasmine Evans and RaeleneBeckman, Clinical Nurse Specialist Marg Bulland Dr Eleanor Donellan. They were videoeddoing some fairly groovy dance steps around theplaster-cast leg of 10-year-old Merrivale PrimarySchool student Rose Yates.Top: Rose Yates’ leg carries a Queen’s Baton Relay message. Also making their mark on thehistorical moment is (from left) Film Maker Paul Cooper, Registered Nurses Yasmine Evans andRaelene Beckman, Clinical Nurse Specialist Marg Bull and Dr Eleanor Dunellen. Photo courtesy ofThe Standard and photographer Glen Watson.Bottom: University graduates (from back left) Colin McDonald, Craig McGifford and KelvinHovey, (middle) Burnie Carey, Carmel McClaren, Glenda Gottsche, Trish Jewell, Lily Pretty andDebra Kelly, (front) Kevin Bonnett, Mathew McCarthy, Jo Davies, Kerrie Wilkinson andJulieta Blain.Opposite pageTop: Of 185 employees recognised for long-serving careers, Environmental Services Worker/Weekend Supervisor Terry Lynch stole the show. He’s worked for SWH for 40 years. Photographcourtesy of The Standard and photographer Leanne Pickett.Centre: The AIDS work of Alcohol and Drugs Physician Dr David Richards has been publiclyrecognised. Photo courtesy of The Standard and photographer Glen Watson.Bottom: 20-month-old Christian Walker (pictured with mum Bronwyn Jeffery) was the first of142 patients to get a visit from Santa on his 75th trip to our Warrnambool hospital. Photo courtesyof The Standard and photographer Damian White.Warrnambool City Council’s Tourism and MajorEvents Executive Manager Narelle Allen says thehospital was chosen to participate because it’s oneof the first workplaces and landmarks you thinkof when you think of Warrnambool.Thanks to a SWH Chemotherapy Nurse acosmetic industry initiative was brought toWarrnambool for the very first time. MelissaDuffin’s dream to give local women having,or about to have, treatment for cancer theopportunity to attend a Look Good… Feel Betterworkshop came to fruition in October when nineparticipants and nine volunteers got together withLook Good…Feel Better State Program ManagerCarie Richardson.In a relaxed environment the participants, withthe assistance of the beauty-industry basedvolunteers, were shown the tricks of the trade onhow to manage the changes that generally occuras a result of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.More than 45,000 Australian women have nowparticipated in this initiative. Warrnambool’s wassuch a hit that Melissa’s repeated it since.“...the hospital was chosen to participate because it’s one ofthe first workplaces and landmarks you think of...”24
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