by CALHN | 12 Jan, 2021 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, Community, RAH
A “virtual visits” initiative helping patients and their families to keep in touch is being piloted at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. The trial was rolled out during South Australia’s November COVID-19 lockdown to help families stay connected. Over the festive period,...
by CALHN | 23 Dec, 2020 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, Community
For many patients, recovery and ongoing wellbeing is better supported in care settings outside of hospital. Each year, Central Adelaide promotes a ‘Home for Christmas’ campaign to staff and patients to encourage patients to be ready for discharge in time to spend with...
by CALHN | 21 Dec, 2020 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, Community
Congratulations to the team behind the P.A.R.T.Y Program, who have been named as finalists in the South Australian Community Achievement Awards. The Prevent Alcohol & Risk-related Trauma in Youth Program (P.A.R.T.Y Program) is a program that draws on the...
by CALHN | 21 Dec, 2020 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, Community, TQEH
A bright and colourful corridor is one of a number of engaging strategies developed to encourage mobility independence in older frail patients. Physiotherapist Matt Rugari worked with the wider geriatrics team at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital to design the “GEMtopia”...
by CALHN | 20 Dec, 2020 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, Community
The Way Back Support Service (TWBSS): supporting people experiencing suicidal crisis A vital program providing support to consumers following a suicide attempt is being implemented in a collaboration between CAHLN and AnglicareSA. The Way Back Support Service (TWBSS)...
by CALHN | 17 Dec, 2020 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, Community, RAH
Lyall Pearce was feeling fit and healthy, having just celebrated his 50th birthday. “My grandmother lived to 101, so I was thinking I had about another 50 years left,” the husband and father of two from Hillcrest said. But when the ride to work he did every day...