 WA Health Awards 2011
The WA Health Awards were established to recognise the innovative work being undertaken by WA Health employees in providing quality health care to the people of Western Australia.
The aim of these Awards is to promote and inspire best practice and continuous improvement, and to recognise those employees who tirelessly strive to better our public health services.
The WA Health Awards were presented at the closing dinner during the WA Health Conference on Wednesday 30th November.
The Awards honour outstanding employee contributions across WA Health and were presented in the following categories in 2011:
Director General's Choice Award – Sponsored by HESTA
Winner:
Indigenous Employment Program, WA Country Health Service – Pilbara.
Highly Commended:
Dementia: Osborne Park Hospital Guide for Occupational Therapists in Clinical Practice, North Metropolitan Area Health Service.
Director General's Choice Award
Conference Partner Award – Sponsored by St John Ambulance
Winner:
Improving Kimberley patients access to tertiary hospital care: A WA and NT collaboration, WA Country Health Service – Kimberley.
Conference Partner Award
Health Consumer, Carer and Community Engagement Award – Sponsored by Paradigm
Winner:
Living with Aphasia – a guide for carers, North Metropolitan Area Health Service.
Finalist:
A Picture Book Guide to Patient First. WA Country Health Service and Health Consumers’ Council.
Health Consumer, Carer and Community Engagement Award
Excellence in Resourcing Award – Sponsored by AIM UWA Business School Executive Education
Winner:
CoNeCT – Improving care across the continuum, North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services.
Finalist:
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Satellite Pharmacy project, North Metropolitan Area Health Service.
Excellence in Resourcing Award
Excellence in Partnerships Award – Sponsored by Silver Chain
Winner:
A Multi-Agency Root Cause Analysis, WA Country Health Service.
Finalist:
Improving services for victims/survivors of sexual assault in regional and remote WA, Sexual Assault Resource Centre, North Metropolitan Area Health Service.
Excellence in Partnerships Award
Excellence in Service Delivery Award – Sponsored by Curtin University
Winner:
Improving services for victims/survivors of sexual assault in regional and remote WA, Sexual Assault Resource Centre, North Metropolitan Area Health Service.
Finalist:
Dementia: Osborne Park Hospital Guide for Occupational Therapists in Clinical Practice, North Metropolitan Area Health Service.
Excellence in Service Delivery Award
Excellence in Human Resources (Peter Baldwin Memorial Award) – Sponsored by Australian Institute of Management
Winner:
Tim Turner, Indigenous Employment Program, WA Country Health Service – Pilbara.
Excellence in Human Resources (Peter Baldwin Memorial Award)
Excellence in Prevention, Promotion and Early Intervention Award – Sponsored by MercyCare
Winner:
Online Chlamydia Program, South Metropolitan Area Health Service.
Finalist:
Dementia: Osborne Park Hospital Guide for Occupational Therapists in Clinical Practice, North Metropolitan Area Health Service.
Excellence in Prevention, Promotion and Early Intervention Award
Improvement in Primary Health Care and Care in the Community Award – Sponsored by Medibank Health Solutions
Winner:
CoNeCT – Improving care across the continuum, North and South Metropolitan Area Health Services.
Finalist:
Online Chlamydia Program, South Metropolitan Area Health Service.
Improvement in Primary Health Care and Care in the Community Award
Improvement in the Workplace Environment Award – Sponsored by GESB
Joint Winners:
Indigenous Employment Program, WA Country Health Service – Pilbara; and RoStar eLearning, Health Corporate Network.
Improvement in the Workplace Environment Award
Improvement in the Patient Journey Award – Sponsored by Department of Health Performance, Activity and Quality Division
Joint Winners:
Paediatric Buckle Fracture Pathway – putting evidence based protocols into practice, Child and Adolescent Health Service; and Pre-Admission Clinic Pharmacist Project, South Metropolitan Area Health Service.
Improvement in the Patient Journey Award
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