Honouring our long-serving volunteers
At this year’s virtual Length of Service Awards, we honoured close to 50 volunteers, ranging in service from five years through to 35 years. ...
Author: Eivion Bowen
Clinical Education Awards recognise outstanding achievements in difficult circumstances
Monash Health has a reputation for providing outstanding clinical education placement opportunities, and last week we recognised the achievements of our top clinical educators. This year, these clinical educators provided students with guidance and mentorship during extremely...
The NAMAS that wasn’t
2020 has been an unpredictable year and as if to reflect the type of challenges we’ve all faced, last Friday’s Annual Nursing and Midwifery Awards and Scholarships (NAMAS) event was disrupted by a code yellow.The...
Christmas is coming…
With Christmas rapidly approaching, the Monash Health Foundation is seeking donations of presents for patients who will be in Monash Children’s Hospital on Christmas Day. Donations of brand new gifts (unwrapped) for children and young people from...
Clean up continues to progress well
Progress on the Clean Up Monash Health initiative continues, with works at the main sites of Clayton and Dandenong completed.Cranbourne has had one skip delivered and collected. The second skip currently is on site being filled. Kingston is filling its third skip, which is still...
Podcast raising awareness of elder abuse
A new three-episode podcast by comedian and social activist Rod Quantock OAM is not only raising awareness of elder abuse, but it is also challenging listeners on ageist and sexist attitudes and empowering older people to know their rights. The podcast was created by Southern...
World Aids Day
Today - December 1 - is World AIDS Day 2020. World AIDS day aims to raise awareness within the community about HIV, the methods of transmission, how it can affect anyone regardless of sex, age, country of...
2020 NAMAS Postponed due to Code Yellow: Details to follow
Due to a Code Yellow. NAMAS 2020 has been postponed. We are working through the details and will provide an update on the event shortly. --This Friday (27 November), all employees are invited to celebrate and...
PPE requirements have changed
The PPE Expert Advisory Committee has reviewed the PPE policy, and the following changes have been approved for implementation by the Health Service Incident Command Team. These changes will further align Monash Health policy with...
Changes to visitation in residential care facilities
The Premier has announced that Victoria has moved to the last step restrictions of the roadmap for reopening. In line with the last step, the following changes are effective in Monash Health residential care facilities from 27 November: Visitation Visiting...
