WA Health Awards 2008
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The 2008 Healthy WA Awards, including the inaugural Director General’s Choice Award and the Peter Baldwin Award, were presented during the 2008 WA Health Conference.
The award winners are (click on heading for more information):
- Healthy Workforce: The Office of the Chief Nursing Officer, for its Assistants in Nursing program to help fight nursing shortages, and to Fremantle Hospital and Health Services who introduced the assistants in three wards to support enrolled and registered nurses to deliver patient care.
Sponsor: McKesson Asia Pacific
Healthy Workforce Award 2008 (PDF 203KB) - Healthy Hospitals: Osborne Park Hospital, for its introduction of a medication reconciliation project to improve medication safety.
Sponsor: Health Networks
Healthy Hospitals Award 2008 (PDF 247KB) - Healthy Partnerships: The Child and Adolescent Community Health Metropolitan-wide Aboriginal Health Team, who respond to the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families.
Sponsor: Fujitsu Australia
Healthy Partnerships Award 2008 (PDF 232KB) - Healthy Communities: The South Metropolitan Area Mental Health Service, for its multi-systemic therapy program, providing specialist community-based services at Rockingham and Hillarys to the families of children and adolescents with severe behavioural disorders.
Sponsor: University of Western Australia
Healthy Communities Award 2008 (PDF 202KB) - Healthy Resources: Royal Perth Hospital, for developing a statewide database for the care of patients with chronic kidney disease.
Sponsor: AIM-UWA Business School Alliance
Healthy Resources Award 2008 (PDF 172KB) - Healthy Leadership: The Metropolitan Child Development Services for implementing major reforms regarding leadership, clinical governance, wait list management, collaboration and partnerships and family and community engagement
Sponsor: Institute for Healthy Leadership
Healthy Leadership Award 2008 (PDF 199KB) - The Director General’s Choice Award: For significant contribution to patient care - the Women and Newborn Health Service for its work developing DVDs to support mothers from culturally and linguistically-diverse backgrounds, including the Ethiopian, Sudanese and Iraqi communities.
Sponsor: HESTA Super Fund
The Director General’s Choice Award 2008 (PDF 166KB) - The Peter Baldwin Memorial Award: For achievement in human resources - Tracy Bennett from the South Metropolitan Area Health Service.
Sponsor: Australian Institute of Management