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Christmas spirit alive and thriving at Western District Health Service Western District Health Service is spreading the Christmas cheer donating presents to children in need. WDHS volunteer coordinator Jeanette Ryan put the call out to WDHS staff to donate Christmas presents to local children in need within the Hamilton community....more |
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Virtual Visits - A national first for Kolor Lodge in Penshurst Minister for Ageing Mrs Justine Elliot announced the launch of Virtual Visiting, an initiative linking older Australians living in rural aged care accommodation with their loved ones via video conferencing...more |
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Matt Handbury plays Mozart for The Grange Successful Australian publisher Matt Handbury has reconnected with a passion of his youth – music - and will entertain the audience with a guest performance at the Orchestra Victoria concert in Hamilton next month...more |
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Top of the Town wins major award The Top of the Town has won the prestigious Australia Post Events and Tourism Award in the 2008 Regional Achievement and Community Awards....more |
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Charity Night raises funds for cancer patients Western District Health Service has welcomed the arrival of a new Welch Allyn Monitor for the Chemotherapy Unit, purchased with funds raised from a charity night organised by the Cancer and Breast Cancer Support Groups...more |
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WESTERN DISTRICT HEALTH CONTINUES ITS WINNING WAYS Western District Health Service has continued to gain recognition for the quality of its work, winning a major healthcare award for the second year in a row. ..more |
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Nearly a Century of nursing
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Sustainable Farm Families The award winning program Sustainable Farm Families led by Western District Health Service is running a SFF program in the Hamilton region. The Hamilton Pastoral and Agricultural Society is a key partner in the Hamilton program and is calling on interested local farm families wishing to be involved in this program to contact WDHS...more |
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Health professionals trained Health professionals have attended a training session to enable them to assist people who are no longer able to smoke on any WDHS campus from September 1...more |
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New Chair at WDHS Western District Health Service Board of Directors have elected Mrs Mary-Ann Brown as their Chairperson for the next 12 months.more |
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Awareness week for Australians know what it’s like to experience “Life’s little spills” - loss of bladder or bowel control regularly affects nearly four million of us...more |
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WDHS at Sheepvention - Virtually The technology which has brought families together, is key to remote consultations and won accolades for Western District Health Service will be on display at the WDHS site at Sheepvention next week...more |
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WDHS gears up for Western District Health Service is gearing up for September 1, the day the Health Service becomes a Smoke-Free Workplace...more |
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Donation by Country Women’s Association Hamilton’s Country Women’s Association (CWA) have been busy knitting shawls & comfort bears for the residents at The Birches Specialist Extended Care facility of Western District Health Service. Pictured from Left Pat Kenna, Bett Basham, resident, Margaret Clayton, Cindy Godfrey Nursing Unit Manager of The Birches and Barbara Trimnell (President) of CWA. |
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WDHS Rates Highly with Patients
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Board Chair Retires
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Health Chief Signs Up Western District Health Service Chief Executive Officer Mr. Jim Fletcher has signed up for a further term as head of the Health Service.more |
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Hands were raised for The Grange The Grange Redevelopment fundraising campaign was launched with great momentum last Saturday, raising $34,000 from The Grange Charity Auction...more |
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Western District Health Service Smoke-Free Workplace There’s nothing like breathing in the fresh air of Spring, and that’s what will be happening at Western District Health Service when it becomes totally smoke-free from September 1. |
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Hospital Sunday Appeal reaches new heights The final tally for the 2008 Hospital Sunday Appeal is $50,700, which is a record for the Western District Health Service annual Doorknock...more |
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Hamilton North Ladies Auxiliary purchase chairs for HBH wards Medical and surgical wards of Hamilton Base Hospital have received two shower commode chairs, specifically designed for bariatric patients, due to the generosity of the North Hamilton Ladies Auxiliary...more |
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Plagues, pestilence and influenza While science is an important combatant in the Global fight against infectious disease, it is not a substitute for good public health policies and sound health infrastructure, Laureate Professor Peter Doherty told the capacity audience at this year’s Handbury Lecture...more |
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International Nurses Day is celebrated by nurses all over the World on May 12, which is the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. |
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Nobel winner is Handbury Lecture guest |
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Health Heart activities for all the family |
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Cha Cha and rumba for a healthy heart It’s more than good timing that the Australian Dance Week coincides with Healthy Heart Week, according to Western District Health Service Go for your Life Project Officer Fran Patterson...more> |
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Vietnam Vet speaks about Kokoda Trek His 2007 trek to the Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea has resulted in a number of invitations to talk about the trip, including a recent presentation in Melbourne for Anzac Day this year. Mr Affleck is well known locally as “Bim” and farmed for many years at his family’s historic grazing property “Minjah”, north-east of Hawkesdale. He has been invited by the Hamilton and District Aged Care Trust to talk about his trek to the Kokoda Trail, and its meaning to him as a keen military historian, at an evening at Murray Hall at the Hamilton and Alexandra College on Thursday, May 22. ...more> |
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Hospital Sunday Goes to Work The Hospital Sunday Appeal will arrive a few days early in workplaces around Hamilton this year...more> |
Hospital Sunday doorknock for Image Intensifier Volunteers are once again preparing to pound the pavement when they doorknock for the annual Hospital Sunday Appeal on May 3 and 4..more>. |
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New Quarters for Junior Doctors Western District Health Service has almost completed the construction of new quarters in Foster Street to provide additional accommodation for the Health Service’s junior doctors...more> |
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Rotary clubs promote reading for families New babies born at Hamilton Base Hospital will receive a book as a gift, thanks to the Literacy Project being run in partnership by Hamilton’s two Rotary Clubs...more> |
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Active Cavendish goes from strength to strength Cavendish residents are combining a chance to exercise with the opportunity to socialise, as part of their Active Cavendish program...more> |
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Aged Care Trust |
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Hamilton hospital chapel holds monthly services |
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Healthy spaces and faces for Hamilton workplaces |
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Countdown on for the year’s 520km Murray to Moyne ride Western District Health Service’s two Murray to Moyne teams can be seen around Hamilton, putting in some training miles in preparation for the year’s 520km Charity Ride between Mildura and Port Fairy...more> |
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Mackie House benefits Mackie House resident Keith Brown has donated $5,000 to the Coleraine Aged Care Hostel where he has lived for the past four years...more> |
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Bendigo Bank Merino community transport The Coleraine and Merino Community Transport service has benefited from the generosity of the Bendigo Community Bank in Coleraine...more> |
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Top of the Town commended by fundraising institute The Top of the Town Charity Ball – Reflections, has received a commendation from the Fundraising Institute of Australia...more> |
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WDHS purchases state-of-the-art theatre equipment |