In the last few months, we have seen so many extraordinary examples of kindness, respect, and excellence across Monash Health in our response to COVID-19. We have seen some of these shared and captured at our Webex Employee Forums, in the CE Updates, and highlighted in the recent ‘our time to shine’ video. You can also...
Your unit’s Welcome to Ward board is often the first thing patients, their loved ones and other visitors see when entering your area and helps orientate them when they might be feeling nervous or have questions. It’s essential that this information...
It is critical for all our patient facing employees to have up to date PPE training. Face-to-face sessions are running daily at 2pm across, Clayton, Dandenong, Casey, Moorabbin and Kingston and laptops are available at these sessions and...
Yesterday, a new drive-through COVID-19 screening clinic opened at Casey Fields, which replaces the Cranbourne screening clinic and offers increased capacity for testing. Monash Health is operating the clinic in collaboration with the Department of Health and...
During the current COVID-19 pandemic there has been a marked increase in patients asking employees to witness their new or amended wills. Our clear instruction to all employees is that they should not witness a patient’s will. As Director Legal Services and Chief...
Research exploring whether plasma collected from people who have recovered from COVID-19 can help improve patient outcomes, recovery and survival, featured on the ABC’s 7.30 program this week, after filming at Monash Medical Centre. The hope...
As of next Wednesday, 1 July, we’ll be introducing a range of improvements and enhancements in the way we use the EMR and the data it captures. A range of Quick Reference Guides (QRGs) have been updated to reflect these...
COVID-19 has seen many limitations imposed when delivering quality support services. One such area that has been impacted is our dedicated volunteer services. Monash Health volunteer services was suspended temporarily and Visiting Volunteer Program organisations were limited with the services they could deliver. The Starlight Children’s Foundation Captains and the Radio...
You would be aware that there has been an increase in COVID-19 infections in recent days. This has resulted in our first admission to hospital for over a month and an increase in people infected...
Cybercriminals are capitalising on the COVID-19 pandemic by sending fraudulent emails that could infect computers or lead to the theft of account details and personal information. Some of the attacks may include malicious software designed to block access to a computer system or computer files...