LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY HEALTH CARE LIMITED ANNUAL REVIEW Continuing the Mission of the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary 2015/2016 Continuing the Mission of the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary 1 Spirit of Calvary Hospitality Healing Stewardship Being for Others Respect Everyone is welcome. You matter. We care about you. Your family, those who care for you, and the wider community we serve, matter. Your dignity guides and shapes the care we offer you. Your physical, emotional, spiritual, psychological and social needs are important to us. We will listen to you and to those who care for you. We will involve you in your care. We will deliver care tailored to your needs and goals. Your wellbeing inspires us to learn and improve. 2 Continuing the Mission of the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary Growth, Innovation and Integration Our Mission “We bring the healing ministry of Jesus + STEWARDSHIP recognises that as 1885-2016 to those who are sick, dying and in need individuals and as a community all we 131 years ago , six through ‘being for others’: have has been given to us as a gift. It courageous Sisters of The is our responsibility to manage these + In the Spirit of Mary standing by her precious resources effectively, now Little Company of mary Son on Calvary; and for the future. We are responsible Sailed from Naples to + Through the provision of quality, for: striving for excellence, developing Sydney on the SS Liguria. responsive and compassionate health, personal talents, material possessions, Their mission was to care community and aged care services; our environment, and handing on the for the poor,sick and dying. + Based on Gospel values; and tradition of the Sisters of the Little Bringing forth the work of + In celebration of the rich heritage Company of Mary. Mary Potter in Australia, and story of the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary. + RESPECT recognises the value their vision was to continue and dignity of every person who is to be a source of healing, Our Vision associated with our services. It is hope and nurturing to those our responsibility to care for all with As a Catholic health, community and in need. whom we come into contact with aged care provider, to excel, and to be justice and compassion, no matter recognised, as a continuing source of what the circumstances, and we are healing, hope and nurturing to the prepared to stand up for what we people and communities we serve. believe and challenge behaviour that Acknowledgement of Land is contrary to our values. and Traditional Owners Calvary acknowledges the Our Values Traditional Custodians and Our values are visible in how we act and Owners of the lands on which treat each other. We are stewards of the all our services operate. We rich heritage of care and compassion About Calvary acknowledge that these of the Little Company of Mary. We are Calvary is a charitable Catholic Custodians have walked guided by these values: upon and cared for these not-for-profit organisation with more than 12,000 staff lands for thousands of years. + HOSPITALITY demonstrates We acknowledge the our response to the desire to be and volunteers, 15 public and continued deep spiritual welcomed, to feel wanted and to private hospitals, 15 retirement attachment and relationship belong. It is our responsibility to and aged care facilities, and a of Aboriginal and Torres extend hospitality to all who come national network of community Strait Islander peoples to into contact with our services by care centres. We operate across this country and commit promoting connectedness, listening six states and territories within ourselves to the ongoing and responding openly. journey of Reconciliation. Australia. Established in Sydney Aboriginal and Torres + HEALING demonstrates our desire in 1885, by the arrival of the Strait Islander people are to respond to the whole person by Sisters of the Little Company of respectfully advised that this caring for their spiritual, psychological Mary in Australia, our mission publication may contain the and physical wellbeing. It is our is to provide health care to the words, voices, names, images responsibility to value and consider most vulnerable, including those and/or descriptions of people the whole person, and to promote reaching the end of their life. We who have passed away. healing through reconnecting, provide aged and community reconciling and building relationships. Calvary is pleased to be care, acute and sub-acute health recognised as a leader in gender care, specialist palliative care and equality by the Workplace comprehensive care for people in Gender and Equality Agency. the final years of their life. Full details of our locations are featured on the back page. Continuing the Mission of the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary 3 Growth, Innovation and Integration Calvary Contents at a glance 05 FOREWORD FROM THE CHAIR OF Year to 30 June 2016 CALVARY MINISTRIES 06 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY HEALTH CARE BOARD HOSPITALS 07 A YEAR IN REVIEW 08 THE SPIRIT OF 199,518 Admissions CALVARY Growth, 10 CELEBRATING THE PAST, EMBRACING Innovation THE FUTURE 443,942 Outpatients 12 DEVELOPMENTS ABD and UPGRADES 16 SERVING OUR Integration COMMUNITIES 23 FUNDRAISING 116,390 Emergency 24 VOLUNTEERS This year our theme ‘Growth, 28 COMMUNITY CARE Innovation and Integration’ profiles Department our focus on growing Calvary’s 30 EXCELLENCE IN Presentations CARE organisational capability in smart and innovative ways. Our vision 38 OUR PEOPLE AND CULTURE is to deliver integrated models of 46 WISE STEWARDSHIP care that ensure optimal health 4,714 Births outcomes for the recipients. 50 OUR TRUSTEES, As always, serving our BOARD, EXECUTIVE communities is at the centre of TEAM AND SERVICES everything we do. 100,813 Surgical 64 CALVARY DIRECTORY We invite you to read and enjoy Procedures their stories, they are our reason for being. RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY CARE 20 residents over the age of 100 Our front cover features Portia Approx 16,156 Jamu (also pictured below), Average number of Registered Nurse at Calvary individual clients Health Care Bethlehem hospital in 359 residents over Caulfield, Victoria. per year the age of 90 Approx 9,800 OF WHOM 66 LIVE IN INDEPENDENT LIVING Average number of VILLAGES clients receiving a service at any one time 770 new admissions + 406 ADMISSIONS TO Approx 900,000 RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE Average visits FACILITIES (excluding respite) + 318 RESPITE ADMISSIONS TO 1.2 million RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE Average annual + 46 ADMISSIONS TO hours INDEPENDENT LIVING VILLAGES 4 Foreword from the Chair of Calvary Ministries Bill d’Apice “In those days we possessed great The work and sacrifice to God and and their stewardship of our continued liberty of spirit, fear and restraint were humanity of these Sisters has set the mission is very much appreciated. We are unknown to us, and love was our guiding foundations for what Calvary is today. exceptionally proud of the achievements star. Mary Potter always told us to follow and investment in our calling to assist the Ignatian rule, “Love God and your And, in the spirit of the Foundation those in need of our care. sisters, and do what you wish”. Sisters, it is our people who make Calvary Sister Sr Brigid Rosser, LCM, one of the the thriving spiritual hub of quality care, We are warmed by the stories of staff founding Sisters who arrived in Sydney healing and nurturing of life that it is and volunteers who do a great job but on 4 November 1885. today. The centre and heart of our mission also go above and beyond to make life are the people with whom our staff and better for the communities we serve. volunteers interact with each and every As we mark the 75th Anniversary of our day - our patients, residents, clients, their We offer our continued support and service at Calvary Health Care Bethlehem families and carers. assure all that you continue to be in our in Melbourne and the 50th Anniversary thoughts, hopes and prayers. On behalf of Calvary Health Care Kogarah in One recurring theme in all of our work, of Calvary Ministries, we thank you all Sydney, it is apposite to reflect on the as reflected in the Spirit of Calvary, is for carrying on the important work founding spirit of the Sisters of the Little ‘’being for others’’. Our work today, and traditions of the Sisters of Little Company of Mary who first arrived in whether in a hospital, aged care facility Company of Mary. Australia 131 years ago. or working with people and families in Sister Brigid Rosser remarks on their the community, is for the well-being BILL d’APICE, great liberty of spirit, their energy and and healing of people. The service of CHAIR, CALVARY MINISTRIES agility in the service of people who Calvary today, as evidenced in this needed their care. annual review, continues the work the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary Reflecting some fifty years later, Sr Brigid commenced in 1885. closed a journal she had kept from the beginning with these words: The Directors of Calvary Ministries are delighted with the new Mission “…a work whose foundations were laid Accountability Framework, adopted in dire poverty and planted deep in the in April 2016. This Framework assures Cross. Does this not teach us what a us that our mission integration and mighty tree grows from the Mustard effectiveness is being well nurtured and Seed, watered and nurtured by the early well monitored. traditions of our young Congregation. And as another era has begun, may each I thank both the Board of Directors and year unfold golden sheets, surpassing far the National Leadership Team for their anything that has gone before…” dedication.