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AHA Baxter Healthcare National Innovation Awards 2003
The Annual AHA Baxter Healthcare National Innovation Awards are awarded to organisations for innovative service development within the Australian healthcare industry. The awards are presented in three categories of innovative service development:
Nominations are called for annually and are presented at the AHA National Congress Applications are assessed by an independent panel convened by the Australian Healthcare Association. Criteria for assessment of nominations are:
The Awards are proudly sponsored by Baxter Inquiries about the awards should be directed to AHA on 02 6162 0780 or admin@aha.asn.au. |
| 2003 Winner in Category 1: Advancement in Service Management Practices is the team at the Barwon Health Renal Service Program in Geelong, Victoria |
| The team set out to establish, prove and publicise an innovative dialysis method first pioneered in Canada - home-based nocturnal haemodialysis. |
| 2003 Winner in Category 2: Increased Effective Consumer Participation in the design, development and evaluation of services is the Prince of Wales Community Health and Aged Care Team’s Aboriginal Health-Link Program. |
| The genesis of this Program was the closure of a local metropolitan hospital in the mid-1990s and its transfer to a larger complex approximately 20 kilometres away. |
| 2003 Winner of Category 3: Excellence in Risk Management Services is the Little Company of Mary Health Care for its National Integrated Risk Management Initiative. |
| The aim of the Integrated Risk Management Strategy is to give consumers and stakeholders confidence in the health services. |
| 2003 Finalist: Fremantle Hospital - Supervised Care Unit |
| The Supervised Care Unit, the first of it’s kind in an Australian acute hospital, is designed to deal with patients primarily with dementia, who require increased nursing supervision during their acute hospital admission. |
| 2003 Finalist: South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service (SESAHS) - Chronic Heart Failure Programs |
| The South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service (SESAHS) Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) Programs were developed in 2001 as part of NSW Health’s Chronic and Complex Disease Priority Health Care Project to address the increasing burden of disease. |
| 2003 Finalist: Calvary Health Care ACT - Clinical Health Improvement Program |
| CHIP is a clinician-driven program that reinforces clinical practice improvement. |
| 2003 Finalist: Ceduna District Health Service - How Ceduna prepared for the 2002 Solar Eclipse |
| Ceduna was identified as one of the best sites for viewing the 2002 Solar Eclipse. The Emergency Services and Infrastructure Committee (ESIC) of Ceduna, formed a sub-committee, made up of various government and non-government agencies, to address a risk management plan for the Solar Eclipse. |
| 2003 Finalist: Department of Human Services, SA - QUM Coast |
| A community based approach to the adoption of Quality Use of Medicines principles. |
| 2003 Finalist: Prince Of Wales Hospital - Home Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation |
| An randomised controlled trial of home based pulmonary rehabilitation for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients aged over 60 years |
| 2003 Finalist: Inner South Community Health Service - Shared Solutions For Health Innovations At The Hard End |
| Change Management - Prostitutes Collective, Victoria (PCV) and 10 Inkerman Street Development. |
| 2003 Finalist: Royal Hobart Hospital - Improving Health Outcomes For Tasmania’s Aquaculture Industry Divers |
| The direct involvement of clinical staff in solving an industry health problem, leading to world-class health outcomes for Tasmania’s Aquaculture Industry divers |
| 2003 Finalist: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital - Residential Care Line |
| The Residential Care Line is a 24-hour, seven days a week, nurse advice and health information service. |
| 2003 Finalist: Mercy Hospital for Women - Streamline Paediatric Information (SPI) Project |
| An innovative neonatal clinical application in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
| 2003 Finalist: Ballarat Health Services - Provision of Physiotherapy and Exercise Therapy Services in the Residential Care Setting |
| The program has engaged and empowered the residents, residential services staff and allied health staff in the development and delivery of a multidisciplinary approach to improving the quality of life of residents living in aged care facilities in Ballarat. |