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Carnarvon's new renal dialysis unit a life-saver for local patients 26 June 2017 Renal patients who live in Carnarvon and surrounding areas are now benefitting from Carnarvon’s first purpose-built dialysis unit. The four-chair haemodialysis unit became operational in April, with four Carnarvon residents becoming the first people to begin receiving their treatment at the new facility. Herbert Eagles, Robert Taylor, Ethel Ranger and Marjorie Winmar returned home to Carnarvon from Perth where they had been staying to receive treatment. The dialysis unit is located within the new Carnarvon Health Campus and forms part of the hospital redevelopment and healthcare hub that will also include a brand new renal hostel and by the end of 2019, a new residential aged care facility. Services are being provided by a WA Country Health Service team of haemodialysis nurses with a nephrologist from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital set to visit regularly. The facility has four treat... -
Councillors tour Karratha Health Campus 14 June 2017 The City of Karratha’s mayor, local councillors and key staff were recently given a tour of the new Karratha Health Campus and saw first-hand the significant progress being made. Building a world class hospital is no easy task and the $207.15 million Karratha Health Campus is no exception. Piece by piece the local community is witnessing the construction of the new 13,000sq metre building, which is the single biggest investment in a public hospital ever undertaken in regional WA. The tour was hosted by Hudson Lun, Project Manager for builders Brookfield Multiplex Cooper and Oxley JV with support from Site Engineer Davis Counsel and Acting Regional Director Nursing and Midwifery Monica Seth. Monica said the tour was a great opportunity for councillors to see the impressive new facility up close. “Every time I visit the site I am impressed by how much it has changed as work rap... -
Telehealth changing the face of medical care for the isolated 12 June 2017 The number of people in country WA using telehealth for medical care has trebled in the past four years, and patients’ lives are being saved and radically transformed as a result. But WA Country Health Service (WACHS) Chief Operating Officer Strategy and Reform Melissa Vernon says the number of people using videoconference consultations is still only a fraction of those who could benefit from them. Ms Vernon said that during the first Telehealth Awareness Week June 12–16 specialists, support clinicians and patients would be encouraged to use telehealth to its potential. “Each week about 800 regional and outer-metropolitan patients receive medical care using videoconferencing – either for emergency or outpatient services,” she said. “But with telehealth consultations available for a wide range of services in many rural and remote locations, there is hug... -
Margaret sees telehealth changing lives 08 June 2017 Geraldton resident Margaret Pike has seen first-hand how health problems affect country people. And she has seen how the increasing use of telehealth services is taking the trauma of travel out of their recovery. Margaret used to work in the health system, and now that she is retired she is a passionate member of the Geraldton District Health Advisory Committee (DHAC). Margaret encouraged people to utilise the telehealth services as much as possible, because she sees how much better people’s lives are when they can reduce their travel. “Telehealth is vital to country people – especially when they have to travel such a long way for five or ten minute appointments with their doctors in Perth,” she said. “With the trauma of leaving family and work to travel to Perth, patients’ recovery is so much better when they can just speak to their specialist using t... -
Telehealth saves Bill money, miles - and marriage 08 June 2017 Bill Flavel jokes that telehealth might be keeping his marriage together. “I have advanced MS and I’m legally blind so I meet with three Perth specialists – which means a lot of drama for my wife with driving to the city,” the Narrogin resident said. “Any time Jenny and I don’t have to go near the city is great.” Bill ‘meets’ regularly with his neurologist at Royal Perth Hospital by telehealth from the relative comfort of nearby Narrogin Health Service. Once, Jenny would have had to drive 200km to the city, parked and navigated them around the big hospital in Bill’s manual wheelchair – his electronic chair won’t fit in their sedan – to meet his specialist. “With telehealth, we just go up to the local primary health service, hook-up on the screen and I can see my specialist and speak to her. “I must ...
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24/01/2024