by CALHN | 9 Dec, 2020 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, Community, RAH, TQEH
Patients will now have a more visual picture of their care thanks to a new initiative called ‘My health plan for today’ that is popping up on patient walls across CALHN sites. Designed as a visual engagement tool for patients, staff and their families, the My health...
by CALHN | 28 Sep, 2020 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, RAH
After becoming critically ill and needing a battery-powered device to keep him alive for 12 months, Graeme Klemm “couldn’t be happier,” 18 months on from receiving a new heart. It’s been a long road for the 57-year-old father of three. Now after getting through the...
by CALHN | 25 Sep, 2020 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, RAH
Patient Daniel Alexander and his partner Elaine are now contemplating a major celebration – a wedding, her 50th birthday and marking the successful transplant of his new kidney. When the 47-year-old salesman from Darwin got a call at 4am to tell him he had a match, he...
by CALHN | 7 Sep, 2020 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, RAH, Research
South Australia’s first islet cell transplant recipient has marked an incredible milestone – 10 years since the surgery which effectively “cured” her diabetes. Margaret Harrigan marked the occasion sharing her favourite dessert – something she couldn’t do previously –...
by CALHN | 2 Sep, 2020 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, RAH, Research
The Royal Adelaide Hospital is the only site in SA and the NT that performs endovascular clot retrievals; the procedure to remove a blood clot that is blocking the blood flow to the brain. Over the past few years, the number of clot retrievals has risen dramatically...
