Annual Report 2007

Peninsula Health Annual Report 2007 Winner - 2007 Premier’s Award for most outstAnding metroPolitAn HeAltH service Our Mission In Partnership, Building a Healthy Community. objective of this report This Report is produced to inform Peninsula Health’s communities, staff, partners and government of its performance for the financial year 1 July 2006 – 30 June 2007. Peninsula Health’s vision is to provide coordinated health care and this leads to an integration of programs and patient services across a number of sites. Progress and achievements of some services are presented to demonstrate this integration. The Annual Report should also be read in conjunction with the Quality of Care Report, which details Peninsula Health’s progress and achievements in many clinical areas and the Peninsula Health Research Report which details research undertaken by clinicians and other health professionals. It is prepared in accordance with Victorian Government guidelines, the directions of the Minister for Finance and in line with Australasian Reporting Awards Incorporated Guidelines. our vision Peninsula Health is committed to • To be recognised as a leader in promoting and providing quality, benchmarking its performance innovative, coordinated and personalised health services against best practice. • To be recognised as an employer of choice The 2007 Annual Report will We believe that our Vision will be achieved by: be presented to the public at • Promoting health, treating illness and providing long term care Peninsula Health’s Annual General • Working in partnership to coordinate health care Meeting on 19 October 2007. • Managing and meeting consumer expectations • Providing teaching, training and education • Managing resources efficiently and effectively our values Service, Integrity, Compassion, Respect, Excellence, Professionalism Contents Peninsula Health Annual Report 2007 2 Chairperson and Chief Executive’s Report 4 Peninsula Health Profile 5 Peninsula Health Overview 6 2006/07 Performance at a Glance 10 Key Performance Indicators 12 Board of Directors 16 Executive Staff 18 Organisational Structure 19 Frankston Hospital Expansion 20 The Mornington Centre, Promoting Health Independence Front cover: Joyce Sweeting participated in Peninsula Health’s 22 Meeting Demand Agestrong program during the year. Agestrong is a strengthening and 32 Building Partnerships balance group program designed for older people. Joyce is pictured doing 38 Enhancing Quality light weight exercises, with trainers 43 Enhancing Quality – Research Rebecca Rohloff and Lesley Rieveley. 44 Caring for and Supporting Our Workforce Photography in the 2006/07 Annual Report features some of Peninsula 47 Managing Our Resources Health’s award winners and highlights the Health Service’s key achievements. 48 Managing Our Resources – Environment 50 Managing Risk 52 Volunteers and Auxiliaries 53 Service Profile 53 Frankston Community Health Service 53 Frankston Hospital 54 Rosebud Hospital 54 Peninsula Health Psychiatric Services In addition to this Annual Report, 55 Community & Continuing Care Services information on Peninsula Health and its activities can be found in the 2007 56 Senior Staff Quality of Care Report and the 2007 Research Report, which are published 60 Disclosure Index separately. The Annual Report, Financial 61 Index Statements, Quality of Care Report and Research Report are available Back Cover Map and Contacts on Peninsula Health’s website – www.peninsulahealth.org.au Chairperson and Chief Executive’s Report Peninsula Health Annual Report 2007 Peninsula Health continues to Frankston Hospital Stage 2A patient flow and provide child meet the demands of the growing Redevelopment friendly areas. population in Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula. During In May 2007, the State Government Peninsula Health the year under review, Peninsula announced $45 million in funding Maternity Services Health provided care and service for the Stage 2A redevelopment of on 365,000 occasions to people Frankston Hospital. Peninsula Health’s Maternity living within its community. Services were restructured during The expansion to Frankston the year to enhance the care and The growing demand for services Hospital will provide two new choices available to women on the was met through delivering a wide surgical theatres and refurbishment Mornington Peninsula. range of high quality, effective and of the four existing theatres. It will efficient programs. provide a new centralised 33-bed The Hillview Birthing Unit was and 7-chair recovery suite, and new successfully relocated from Staff across the Health Service areas for Endoscopy, Day Surgery Rosebud Hospital to Frankston developed innovative programs theatres and Cardiac Angiography. Hospital in April 2007. The decision to meet increasing demand and The Central Sterile Supply to relocate the unit was the only a number of initiatives resulted in Department will also be refurbished way to preserve the Rosebud improved patient outcomes. and expanded. Hospital midwife led model of care. In September 2007, Peninsula The project will also redevelop and In addition, an expansion to Health received both the Premier’s expand the Pharmacy Department. Frankston Hospital’s maternity Award as Outstanding Metropolitan The Health Information Services facilities is planned for 2008. This Health Service of the Year and Department will be relocated to a will result in additional maternity the Quality of Care Reporting new area. and birthing facilities. Award at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards presentation. The new operating theatres will Community Participation The announcement came after this be ready for use in November report had been finalised and full 2009 and when the total expansion The Health Service works closely details will appear in the 2007/08 is completed in 2010, Peninsula with community groups and other Annual Report. Health will have surgical and critical service providers to improve the care facilities that compare with the integration and delivery of services. Other highlights of the year include: best in Victoria. There are two Community Advisory The Mornington Centre, It was a busy year for capital works Committees, a Koori Advisory Promoting Health projects across the Health Service. Group, a CALD Advisory Group Independence and a SHARPS Advisory Group. The $3.4m redevelopment to Peninsula Health is indebted to the Stage 1A of The Mornington Centre the Frankston Hospital Radiology members of these committees for was completed and successfully Department was completed in their support of the Health Service. opened in September 2007. September 2006. Staff Achievements The $21.8 million development The Rosebud Hospital Renal comprises 60 geriatric evaluation Dialysis and the Chemotherapy Throughout the year, staff and and management beds and Units were redeveloped to management at every site provides treatment and care for meet growing demand on the developed programs, systems elderly patients. Mornington Peninsula. and processes that provided comprehensive and expanded The Mornington Centre replaces Frankston Hospital and Rosebud services within allocated resources. facilities that formerly operated at Hospital Emergency Departments The excellence of many programs the Mount Eliza Centre. were refurbished to improve was recognised in the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards. These on Healthcare Standards (ACHS). adolescent and aged care mental Peninsula Health Annual Report 2007 are highlighted throughout this Accreditation was granted for a health services required to meet report. four year period. The Surveyors the needs of the catchment area’s awarded a Moderate Achievement population (page 31). Research Highlights (MA) in 21 areas, an Extensive Achievement (EA) in 21 areas The Board Research, and its outcomes, plays and the top rating of Outstanding a vital role in the provision of Achievement (OA) for Peninsula On 1 July, Diana Ward (Deputy optimum health care and enables Health’s Legal Compliance Chairperson), Liza Newby, Michael Peninsula Health to extend its program. Tiernan and Dianne Wickham were community of care beyond the reappointed for another three year Mornington Peninsula. The report is one of the best term. The ongoing Board Directors achieved by Peninsula Health in are Barry Nicholls (Chairperson), The role of research was further an Organisational Wide Survey. Jim Kerrigan OAM, Associate developed across the Health Professor Ruth Salom and Jim Service with the establishment Immediate Challenges Swinden. It is also important of the Peninsula Health Research to recognise the service and Program. The Research Program A total of 50,518 patients contribution of Mr Peter LeRoy, draws together a number of presented to the Frankston who resigned from the Board research functions that were Hospital Emergency Department during the year. One new Board previously administered separately. (an increase of 1,187 patients or Director, Ms Nancy Hogan, was 2.3% from 2005/06). appointed from 1 July, 2007 for Financial Overview a three year term. Although Peninsula Health The year-end financial result is achieved the majority of its Special thanks are extended to a positive result. Our financial targets, the percentage of the staff of Peninsula Health, its performance was strong, with a Frankston Hospital Emergency volunteers and auxiliary members, small surplus (recorded before patients admitted to a ward within donors, the Department of Human capital and depreciation) of 8 hours was 57% in 2006/07. Services, and the

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