Monthly Archives: May 2023

These sofa beds will be put in each room to provide a place for partners or a support person to stay overnight. This will ensure the women giving birth at Sale Hospital will feel more supported and as comfortable as … Continue reading →

Shermain Wells resigned from the position of Aged Care Service Manager at Maffra Hospital, but will continue working within the Aged Care Network via the Aged Care Pool. Kerry Wright has been appointed the Aged Care Services Manager at Maffra … Continue reading →

Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs) play an important role in making workplaces safer. HSRs are elected by workers/employees in their DWG to represent them in health and safety matters. DWGs are an agreed group of workers at one or more … Continue reading →

CGH acknowledges the significant body of work that this group has delivered in ensuring a successful implementation of the EMR. Moving forward, governance of the EMR will sit with our Clinical Governance Committee, including responsibility for considering change requests (via … Continue reading →

You can support the Pharmacy Department during this period by: • All planned or expected next day discharge scripts to be completed by 3pm on the day prior to discharge • Scripts for all planned/expected weekend discharges to be provided … Continue reading →

“Short Notice Accreditation Assessments (SNAP) from 1 July 2023: From 1 July 2023, short notice assessments will commence for all health service organisations in the acute care sector where licencing requires accreditation to the NSQHS Standards.” For CGH, this means … Continue reading →

The Beryl Institute defines Patient Experience as “the sum of all interactions, shaped by an organisations’ culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care.” At CGH, patient experience is fundamentally about how we deliver safe, high-quality care in … Continue reading →

For this 2023 influenza season, the vaccine for healthcare workers is a quadrivalent vaccine. For healthcare workers aged 65 years and over, a quadrivalent vaccine with an adjuvant known to increase the immunogenicity of vaccines is available. The Department of … Continue reading →