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Ballarat Health Services Annual REPORT 2011-2012 Base Hospital Drummond Street North PO Box 577 Ballarat 3353 Phone: (03) 5320 4000 Fax: (03) 5320 4828 Queen Elizabeth Centre 102 Ascot Street South PO Box 199 Ballarat 3353 Phone: (03) 5320 3700 Fax: (03) 5320 3860 Psychiatric Services Sturt Street PO Box 577 Ballarat 3353 Phone: (03) 5320 4100 Fax: (03) 5320 4028 www.bhs.org.au ANNUALREPORT 2011-2012 SPECIALTIES & SERVICES Allied Health Services Gastroenterology • Dietetics General Medicine • Exercise therapy General Surgery • Occupational therapy Geriatric Evaluation and Management • Physiotherapy Gynaecology • Podiatry ICU Liaison Nurse Service • Prosthetics and orthotics • Psychology Infection Control • Social work Intensive Care Unit and Medical Emergency Response Team • Speech therapy Acquired brain injury Lymphoedema Breast Care Maxillofacial Surgery BHS Catering Medical Oncology Cardiology Neonatal Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD) Nephrology Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Management Neurology Community Nursing Maternity Services Community Programs Operating Suite • Carer Respite and Support Services Ophthalmology • Ambulatory Care Services Organ and Tissue Donation Service • Domiciliary Services Orthopaedic Surgery • Grampians Aged Care Assessment Service (ACAS) Otolaryngology • Grampians Regional Continence Service Outpatient Services • Diabetes and Continence Resource Centre Paediatric Medicine • Grampians Regional Palliative Care Team Perioperative Day Procedure Unit • Hospital Admission Risk Program (HARP) Pain Management • Linkages Central Highlands Co-ordinated Community Care Palliative Care • Planned Activity Groups Pharmacy • Post Acute Care Plastic Surgery • Rehabiliation in the Home Mental Health Services including: • Transition Care Program • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service • Direct2Care • Acute Community and Inpatient Services Diagnostic and Radiology (X-ray) Services • Aged Community and Inpatient Services • Ultrasound • Adult Community • CT Scan Rehabilitation (in-patient and out-patient) • MRI Residential Aged Care • EEG Respite Care • ECG Safety Link • BreastScreen • Nuclear medicine Stroke Management Critical Care Unit Stomal Therapy Dental Services Statewide Aids and Equipment Program (SWEP) Diabetes Education Thoracic Medicine Dialysis Thoracic Surgery Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery Urology Emergency Medicine Vascular Surgery Endocrinology, including diabetes management Wound Management Eureka Linen Falls and Balance 2 Ballarat Health Services CONTENTS Profi le of BHS 4 President and CEO’s report 5 Organisational chart 11 Board of Management 12 Our People 14 Statutory requirements 24 Financial statements and notes 29 www.bhs.org.au 3 BHS PROFILE OUR VISION Excellence in health care OUR MISSION To deliver accessible, integrated and positive health experiences for our people, community and region. Ballarat Health Services is Victoria’s OUR VALUES second largest regional health service, Our services and staff embrace the following: providing a comprehensive range of Compassion general and specialist care across key Fair and caring to all those we come into contact with, even during diffi cult times. We treat others as we would expect to be medical and healthcare disciplines treated. including acute care, sub-acute Integrity care, residential aged care services, Behaving in accordance with our professional, ethical and legislative requirements. Using our resources responsibly and community care, psychiatric services, transparently, we are honest and trustworthy. dental services and rehabilitation Respect services. Upholding the dignity and rights of ourselves, patients, relatives, carers, colleagues and members of the community. We value the Our Base Hospital is the largest regional hospital in the people we work with and their work. Grampians region and is the principal referral hospital Excellence for this region, which extends from Bacchus Marsh to the South Australian border. The region, covering some Striving to attain the highest standards of service delivery and 48,600 square kilometres, is home to more than 230,000 clinical practice. We achieve this by acknowledging, recognising people. and promoting innovation, participating in continuous learning, development, training and research. We come to work to make a Ballarat Health Services was established under the Health difference. Services Act 1988. the incorporation came into effect when our organization offi cially formed on January 1, Teamwork 1997, following the voluntary amalgamation of the Involving staff and service providers in decision making. We work Ballarat Base Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Centre and in partnership with our patients, their families, carers and other Grampians Psychiatric Services. health care providers. For the period July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012, Ballarat Accountability Health Services was accountable, through its board of management, to the Hon. David Davis, MLC, Minister for Understanding our role in providing a safe environment for Health. staff, patients, visitors and members of the community. We take personal responsibility to maintain the necessary skills and competencies to perform our workforce roles and encourage others to do the same. If we make mistakes, we support each other to be open about them in order to learn. Collaboration Initiating engagement with our services and professionals both internally and externally, sharing our knowledge and experiences to build a better health system. 4 Ballarat Health Services REPORT OF OPERATIONS CAPITAL WORKS The 2012-2013 State Government Budget contained great news The total cost of works including the recent announcement totals for Ballarat Health Services with the allocation of $46.4M for the approximately $150 million. construction of: Another key feature of the master plan is the consideration of • a helipad; “future-proofi ng”. • multi-deck car park; Examples include building four linear accelerator bunkers in the • bed expansion; BRICC, of which two are for future expansion; building an extra • an Ambulatory Care Centre; and, shell for a second catheter laboratory in the Cardiovascular Suite; and construction of two additional fl oors for administrative • mother-baby mental health unit. functions in the BRICC, which in the future could be used for the expansion of cancer services. In addition the Masterplan identifi es The BHS Service Plan and Model of Care, prepared in 2006, future growth options for other services including the Emergency details the services to be provided now and into the future and Department, Intensive Care Unit, Radiology and Mental Health. considered factors including regional demographics, utilisation statistics, health care trends, Government Health Plans and It is proposed the new Ambulatory Care Centre, to be burden of disease fi gures. constructed once Yuille House is vacated and demolished, will abut the Bolte Wing of the Base Hospital. This will enable the The BHS master plan details the facilities and buildings required extension of the Operating Theatres, Day Procedure and Central to provide those services along with functional relationships Sterile Supply Department (CSSD) into the fi rst fl oor of the between departments. Ambulatory Care Centre. Our master plan has since been updated on several occasions as The ground fl oor of the Ambulatory Care Centre will include a buildings are completed or as circumstances change. The master new main entrance for the Base Hospital, along with reception, plan is now being revised following construction that has taken and will enable a re-alignment of internal corridors. Pharmacy will place over time and proposed building activity. also need to be relocated. Since the development of both documents, BHS has achieved All specialist clinics will be relocated from the West Wing to substantial funding allocations for capital works including: the Ambulatory Care Centre. This will enable ward areas to be • commissioning of an additional Operating Theatre; expanded into the vacated West Wing. • redevelopment of the Mental Health Service Adult Acute Unit; • construction of a new Neonatal Special Care Unit; • construction of a new Midwifery Clinic area; • redevelopment of the Emergency Department including provision of an expanded waiting room and reception, fast track bays, improved security and a Short Stay Unit; • construction of the Cardiovascular Service; • construction of the Deakin University Clinical School; • redevelopment of the Library; • relocation of the Dental Clinic and subsequent funding for a new stand-alone expanded Clinic; • construction of the Ballarat Regional Integrated Cancer Centre (BRICC); • relocation of administrative functions currently in Yuille House to an additional two fl oors being built on the BRICC; • upgrade of Power Supply and Emergency Generator Backup System housed in a new Energy Centre; and, • commissioning of an additional bed in the Intensive Care Unit. www.bhs.org.au 5 APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR OF SURGERY As well as increasing bed numbers the expansion will allow BHS has a history of attracting quality candidates to its ranks. existing problems to be addressed including: In February 2012 we welcomed Vascular and General Surgeon Matthew Hadfi eld as our new Director of Surgery. • inadequate sized staff stations; • access to computers; Mr Hadfi eld was previously a Consultant Vascular and General Surgeon, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in England where • storage; he provided service to an estimated one million people in the • bathroom facilities;