Low Res MH Quality Account 2018 FINAL

50 Monash Health
Comprehensive care
Continuity
Patients regularly transition
through different parts
of Monash Health,
receiving distinct – but
connected – treatments
and services. Ensuring that
communication, integration
and care remains seamless
and excellent, is vitally
important to us. Our staff,
across a range of sites
and disciplines, work with
outstanding levels of skill,
passion and cohesion in
order to achieve this.
An expectant mother was admitted to
Monash Medical Centre after suffering
a stroke. She was 26 weeks pregnant
and stayed in Neurology for about four
weeks before moving to the Maternity
ward, where she stayed until she had
a caesarean section at 35 weeks. The
baby went to the special care nursery
at Monash Newborn and the mother
stayed in the ward at MMC until they
were both ready to go to Dandenong
Hospital so she could commence
rehabilitation.
The mother went to Dandenong and
her baby went to the Special Care
Nursery at Dandenong while she
underwent rehabilitation. A further
three days on the Maternity ward at
Dandenong enabled the mother to
receive parental support and education
before going home.
This story highlights the team work
and collaboration between the staff
and sites involved: from Nursing
and Midwifery; Medical and Allied
Health; Neurology; Monash Newborn;
Rehabilitation; and the Special Care
Nurseries at Clayton and Dandenong;
they were all able to rise to the
challenge and excel.
Without this co-operation and
collaboration between teams, it would
have been much harder for the mother
and her baby to have bonded so
successfully in what was an unusual set
of circumstances.