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Innovative strategy that transformed regional healthcare is award finalist 06 November 2019 The ground-breaking Southern Inland Health Initiative (SIHI), which transformed regional health care in WA’s southern inland area, was a finalist for a WA Health Excellence Award in the Overcoming Inequities category. Challenging the way traditional health services were designed, focused and delivered, SIHI changed the approach to care in regional WA, overcoming many inequities for people accessing health care services in regional communities. Introduced by the WA Country Health Service (WACHS) in 2011, the multi-pronged approach saw investment in the medical and clinical workforce, establishment of the world-renowned Emergency Teleheatlh Service (ETS), targeted primary health care services, a significant health infrastructure program and expansion of the telehealth network that set the foundation for future state-wide innovation in the delivery of health care services. The SIHI... -
Midwest’s world-first mental health project in running for top award 06 November 2019 Access, demand and working in partnership are the key drivers in a world-first reform project which is significantly improving mental health services in the Midwest. The Midwest Mental Health and Community Alcohol and Drug Service Reform Project has radically redesigned the delivery of regional mental health services with huge knock on benefits including quicker access to appropriate treatment for more patients. The impressive results were acknowledged in this year’s WA Health Excellence Awards with a finalist nomination in the Mental Health Commissioner’s Award category. The Midwest is one of the largest health regions in the world covering more than 600,000 kilometres with a population of around 68,000 people. The reform project combines a new locally developed model of care utilising the Choice and Partnership Approach; a collaborative way of working with service users... -
TeleRehab nominated for regional stroke improvements 06 November 2019 An innovative project that reduces regional patient inequities in accessing specialist stroke rehabilitation was nominated as a 2019 finalist in the WA Health Excellence Awards. The Stroke TeleRehab Project brings high quality stroke rehabilitation closer to home for Midwest patients via a telehealth link between Geraldton Hospital and the stroke rehabilitation unit at Osborne Park Hospital (OPH). Developed as a partnership program between North Metropolitan Health Service and WA Country Health Service, the project has reduced the number of Midwest patients having to travel to Perth for stroke rehabilitation, and reduced their length of stay in both Geraldton and metropolitan hospitals. Working with stroke rehabilitation clinicians at Osborne Park Hospital via telehealth alongside their local treating clinician, patients at Geraldton Hospital are able to receive specialised care for t... -
Albany preventative health partnership named as finalist in Health Excellence Awards 06 November 2019 Albany residents now have a local government that puts the community’s health and wellbeing at the heart of all that they do, thanks to the Healthy Albany partnership. Recently named as finalist in the Health Excellence Awards’ Promotion of Preventative Health category, Healthy Albany has been a three year project led in partnership by WA Country Health Service Great Southern and the City of Albany. The project aimed to address the high prevalence of overweight and obesity and associated chronic disease in the Albany community. By making sustainable changes to the environments in which people live, work, and play – places which the City of Albany has the power to make a positive impact to. WA Country Health Service Great Southern Health Promotion Coordinator Kate Jones said the local reach and influence of the City of Albany was used to deliver health promotion initi... -
Back to Country a frontrunner for health awards 06 November 2019 A unique mental health program that connects Aboriginal men and women back to their land is in the running for a major health award. The Back to Country program is a finalist in the WA Health Excellence Awards category three – Achieving better health outcomes for Aboriginal people. Back to Country is led by the WA Country Health Service’s Kimberley Mental Health and Drug Service at the Mabu Liyan mental health unit in Broome. Reflecting the Yawuru meaning of Mabu Liyan, which is ‘healing spirit’, each week the team facilitates activities out on country for Aboriginal consumers who are currently inpatients. Non-Aboriginal consumers are also invited to participate. The activities incorporate experiences that are personal and provide meaningful connection to the individual’s own country and cultural practice, such as goanna hunting, fishing, bush walking, g...
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17/04/2026