Lauren continually enhances the experience of families and their babies staying sometimes months in what can be a very overwhelming clinical environment. As an avid seamstress Lauren has personally sourced, sewn and labelled hundreds colourful cot sheets, as well as engaging with the Sewing Australia community to coordinate further sheets to be made. Going home each day and not taking your baby with you is incredibly challenging. This is one of many ways that Lauren spreads joy and brightens the lives of families and babies in our care. 

Using specialist knowledge, skills, and advocacy, Cherith identifies the impact of significant traumatic experiences, and individually tailors care plans to empower her clients. She assesses the health needs of her clients, and skillfully identifies services to meet their ongoing requirements. Cherith consistently demonstrates the foundations of trauma informed care including patient choice, safety, development of trust and empowerment. 

Anthony shows remarkable commitment to his role as a nurse leader within the organisation, and the nursing and midwifery informatics team. This challenging role, in an emerging specialty, requires flexibility and resolve and Anthony always displays this with passion and focus. He has pushed the scope of how the EMR can be best leveraged to support nurses in providing safe, consistent, high-quality patient care. Anthony is a supportive and encouraging leader delivering outstanding results and continuous improvements. 

Madeline demonstrates safety leadership and consistently strives to build capability for the future. She was integral to the recent Sandringham transition, ensuring the maternity team was supported throughout the process. She is an exceptional leader guided by strong personal integrity, and easily embeds trust and respect. 

Michael’s steady commitment to leading his team during turbulent changing times has been outstanding. Michael focuses on delivering patient-centered care, innovation, quality improvement, and creating a safe environment for all. He is focused on team education, growth, development, and adaptability and always remains professional, responsive, resourceful and kind. 

This team delivered an innovative Emergency Department model of care to prevent hospital admissions, reduce length of stay and deliver care responsively and safely in the community. In partnership with Clayton ED and Safer Care Victoria the Team identified people presenting to the ED with potentially preventable presentations and utilised their extensions to practice to link them back to community care and follow up. This work has achieved phenomenal results and is a major step towards acute to community integration. 

Jess shows outstanding leadership, creating a safe and inclusive environment within the challenging and demanding ED setting. She leads multiple team activities including a walking group, footy tipping, pie days, funky scrub day and soon puppy play dates! All these activities bring brightness, joy, and connection to the department where employees thrive, and patients receive optimal care. 

The unique specialties on Aviary pose a number of complexities. With patients aged from weeks old to 18 years, the team may be caring for a baby with seizures, a child with an acquired brain injury, an intellectually disabled child, or a young adult with an eating disorder. The team’s relentless professionalism, endurance, compassion and innovation to keep the children, their families and each other safe and cared for is truly inspiring. 

Monash Health currently operates 4 Commonwealth funded residential services comprising of 195 beds in total. The services provide exceptional long term and respite care for residents. All homes are fully accredited with care and compassion consistently delivered across each facility. Despite all the challenges faced, the team continues to deliver exceptional outcomes and service delivery to residents and their families. 

Tara Rogers 

Jackie Hopley 

Agnetha Clarke 

Paula Rockman 

Madeline Lang