OCT 2016

WELCOME FROM STEVEAfter a few months without a newsletter,

I’m pleased to announce that

will now be the main source of news,

announcements and success celebrations

across the group. It will be distributed

monthly in both hardcopy and via email, as

well as being loaded onto LOTI. I hope to

see you all featured at some point!

It’s been a very productive few months

for Healthe Care! We now have 17

hospitals with the opening of Robina,

we’ve launched new facilities and services

around the country, and we’ve recognised

and celebrated some amazing work

being done at all levels across the group.

Congratulations to everybody involved and

thank you to all our 5,000 staff for your

dedication and your many contributions.

Steve Atkins Healthe Care CEO

ROBINA RISES!In 2015, Healthe Care identified the

opportunity to establish the first private

hospital in Robina’s rapidly growing health

precinct on Queensland’s Gold Coast. After

10 months of construction on a greenfield

site, Healthe Care’s 17th hospital, Robina

Private Hospital, has just opened its doors!

The new 90 bed hospital is directly across

the road from the public Robina Hospital and

comprises a mix of private mental health and

medical services for inpatients, day patients

and outpatients. It is the first Healthe Care

hospital in Queensland to provide medical

services, in addition to mental health.

Robina Private Hospital offers 60 private

mental health inpatient beds along with

private services for the treatment of mood

and anxiety disorders, youth and young

adult mental illness, older persons’ mental

health concerns and perinatal mood

disorders. Neurostimulation services

will also be offered, with Repetitive

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

(rTMS) to commence this year and

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) next year.

Patients with a mental health diagnosis

often have additional medical co-

morbidities so the hospital offers a 30 bed

general medical ward. It allows visiting

physicians, including geriatricians,

to take an integrated general health

approach to the delivery of care.

Private medical services include general

medicine, geriatric medicine, renal

medicine and endocrinology.

Anna Styles-Tape is the CEO and Director

of Nursing of the new hospital. She brings 19

years of experience in senior management

and executive roles across the public, private

and not-for-profit hospital sectors. For the

past ten years, she has been Director of

Clinical Services at Healthe Care’s Lingard

Private Hospital in Newcastle.

Dr Michael Hagan and Dr Penny King

lead the hospital’s mental health services as

Director of Psychiatry and Director of Older

Persons’ Psychiatry. Both have relocated

from Healthe Care’s Currumbin Clinic.

Healthe Care has been working with

Robina Hospital and Gold Coast Public

Health to ensure an effective partnership

with the public health service while

delivering critical private health services to

the wider Gold Coast community.

Anna Styles-Tape, Dr Michael Hagan, Dr Agnew Alexander (Consultant Psychiatrist), Dr Penny King, Dr Bradley Ng (Consultant Psychiatrist), Dr Saveena Singh (Consultant Psychiatrist), Dr Elsa Yeung (Consultant Psychiatrist) and Julia Strickland-Bellamy (Healthe Care Executive General Manager of Queensland & WA)

Robina Private Hospital under construction across the road from the public Robina Hospital

Healthe Care officially became a subsidiary of the Luye Medical

Group in April. In this series, we will showcase different aspects of

our new parent company.

Luye Medical Group is headquartered in Singapore and led by

Chairman DianBo Liu. The Chairman’s vision is to provide high

quality, ‘patient-centric’ healthcare services worldwide and to serve

customers with offerings at both lifestyle or primary care (low

acuity) and hospital care (high acuity) levels.

Today, the businesses and partnerships of Luye Medical comprise:

• Healthe Care in Australia, with our 17 hospitals and community

nursing teams;

• Ellium Women’s Hospital in South Korea, one of the country’s

largest, offering services in obstetrics & gynaecology and

paediatrics;

• Ellium Aesthetics Clinics in South Korea, China and Vietnam, offering

services in plastic surgery, dermatology and body contouring;

• Bobath rehabilitation hospitals in China;

• The GoodWill Dental Clinic partnership in China;

• AsiaMedic in Singapore, offering health screening and diagnostic

imaging; and

• Vela Diagnostics in Singapore, offering high technology ‘precision’

diagnostics based on genetic profiling.

Since April there has been a lot of interaction across all of the

leadership teams of the Luye Group. A Healthe Care delegation led

by Steve Atkins, our CEO, Andrew Grant, our newly appointed

Exec GM of Asia, and Bruce Levy, Exec GM of Leadership, attended

the 2016 Luye Mid-year Management Conference held in China

in August. Key areas of discussion at that event were aligning our

vision, mission and values across the group, as well as cross-cultural

awareness, high performance teamwork and talent development.

We have also hosted a number of visitors to Australia, most

recently Lee Yi Shyan, Senior Advisor to Chairman DianBo Liu,

and Kathleen He, Luye Group Human Resources Director.

Stay tuned for our next article covering Luye Medical’s expansion

plans and the role Healthe Care will play in them.

LEARN ABOUT LUYE

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Timothy Chua (Director of IE Singapore), Bruce Levy, Steve Atkins, Kathleen He, Andrew Grant and Lee Yi Shyan in the Healthe Care Sydney office

Steve Atkins presenting at the Luye Mid-year Management Conference in China

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PREMIER LAUNCHES MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AT SOUTH EASTERNThe Premier of Victoria, The Honourable Daniel Andrews MP,

formally opened the brand new mental health services building of

South Eastern Private Hospital (SEPH) in August. The 60 bed facility

will be run as part of the hospital’s existing operations and will also host

a mental health research program led by Professor David Barton.

With Australian Bureau of Statistics survey figures showing almost

one in five Australians experience some form of mental disorder in

their lifetimes and the impact of those disorders ranking behind only

cancer and heart disease, it’s no wonder the area is a government

priority. The addition of SEPH’s new facility means that Healthe

Care now has over 600 beds across 12 hospitals around Australia

that are dedicated to treating mental health disorders.

Steve McCrea (SEPH Allied Health Manager), Janet Foggin (SEPH Mental Health Program Manager), Ghada Charbine (SEPH Director of Clinical Services), Premier Daniel Andrews, Gabrielle Williams (State Member for Dandenong) and Andrew Blyth (SEPH CEO) at the launch

The new South Eastern Private Hospital mental health services building

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HURSTVILLE LAUNCHES MUSCULOSKELETAL INSTITUTEHurstville Private Hospital has partnered

with world-renowned orthopaedic surgeon

Associate Professor Munjed Al Muderis

to develop a comprehensive, multi-

disciplinary clinical service focused on joint

replacement, spinal surgery, interventional

pain and medical rehabilitation. The service

is designed to offer patients convenience

and team-based management throughout

their treatment.

A/Prof Al Muderis is widely acknowledged

as the global leader in osseointegration

– the surgery of artificial robotic limbs

for amputees. He has recently used his

lists of surgical patients at Hurstville

to demonstrate his techniques to

surgeons from around the world. Visitors

have included Dr Dror Paly, former

Orthopaedics Professor at the University

of Maryland and now director of a major

clinic in Florida. Dr Paley commented that

developments like osseointegration are

usually pioneered in Europe or the United

States before reaching Australia, while this

is the reverse.

With his surgery on amputee veterans

injured in combat, A/Prof Al Muderis’ work

has also caught the attention of Prince

Harry who has paid him several visits and

even facilitated a meeting with Her Majesty

The Queen at Windsor Castle.

In addition to A/Prof Al Muderis, the

Musculoskeletal Institute team comprises

A/Prof Mark Haber (shoulder),

Dr Hamish Rae (shoulder and elbow),

Dr Razvan Stoita (hip, knee and trauma),

Dr Mohamad Mourad (hand & wrist, elbow,

and foot & ankle), Dr Anil Nair (spine),

Dr James Yu (interventional pain),

Dr Tim Ho (rehab and pain management)

and Dr Mike Jamieson (sports physician).

Healthecare’s MiPhysio outpatient clinic

and Rehab2Home offering are also part of

the initiative, enabling patients to access

allied health services in the clinic and also at

home. They cover the complete spectrum of

care for patients prior to surgery and post

discharge from hospital.

A/Prof Munjed Al Muderis at Hurstville Private Hospital demonstrating world-leading

osseointegration techniques to US surgeons

A/Prof Al Muderis with Prince Harry

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TORONTO OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST

VOLUNTEERS IN AFRICAMelanie Glapa, Senior Occupational

Therapist at Toronto Private Hospital on

the NSW Central Coast, took four months

of leave earlier this year to volunteer on a

hospital ship called the Africa Mercy. Part

of the international humanitarian Mercy

Ships organisation, the ship has five state of

the art operating rooms, an 80 bed hospital

ward and a crew of 400. It travels to some

of the poorest nations in the world to

provide much-needed healthecare services.

Melanie spent her time on the ship in

Madagascar as part of a rehabilitation team

of five physiotherapists, two occupational

therapists and local day crew who worked

as translators and allied health assistants.

They rehabilitated patients after plastic,

orthopaedic, maxiofacial and general surgery.

Melanie’s main focus was hand therapy and

lymphoedema therapy with patients admitted

for surgery for contracture releases and skin

grafts following inadequately treated burns.

She also treated patients post removal of

neurofibromas and a variety of other tumours,

facial burns and release of amniotic bands.

Melanie said her time on the Africa Mercy

was the experience of a lifetime.

“I was able to see and treat a range of

conditions typical to the developing world in

a country where access to healthcare is very

limited and the patients are so appreciative.”

GOSFORD’S ENDOSCOPY CENTRE TAKES SHAPEConstruction has started on Gosford

Private Hospital’s new Endoscopy Centre.

The purpose-built facility, which is due

to be completed and commissioned by

Christmas, features two procedure rooms,

seven first-stage recovery beds and 11

second-stage recovery chairs.

The new facility is expected to increase

the number of colonoscopies and

gastroscopies performed at the hospital

from 5,000 to 7,500 per year by 2020.

The approved plans also include

refurbishment of one of Gosford Private

Hospital’s 9 operating theatres to

expand its size and upgrade it to handle

procedures that require more room and

a large number of instruments such as

neurosurgery and orthopaedics. This work

will be completed by March next year.

Matt Kelly (Gosford Private Hospital CEO and Healthe Care Regional Manager – Central Coast) inspects demolition works with Aaron Cannon (newly appointed Endoscopy Centre Nursing Unit Manager)

Artist impression of the new centre

Christmas Eve 2013 was a day

Julie Metaxotos can’t remember but will

never forget. Her car was involved in a

major head-on collision and her world fell

apart. Her broken body was airlifted to the

Alfred Hospital in Melbourne with grim

prospects for her survival.

Fortunately she did survive. After eight days

in an induced coma and many operations

on virtually all parts of her body below

her neck, she was eventually transferred

to Brunswick Private Hospital for her

rehabilitation. The hospital became her

“home away from home” and she formed

many close relationships with the staff as

she struggled to overcome her injuries.

Julie is nothing if not a fighter. Having lost

control of her life and her limbs, she reset

her expectations and focused on not only

recovering from her ordeal but making the

best of her situation. While learning to walk

again and facing the daily challenges of

regaining her health, she set about writing a

book about her experiences.

Julie finished her book, ‘A fractured life’, earlier

this year. She and her publisher then decided

to hold a launch event and there was only one

choice for the venue – Julie’s “home away from

home”, Brunswick Private Hospital. The event

was held at the hospital in August, sponsored

by the Transport Accident Commission and

with the lead-up covered by Channel 7 News.

A video was filmed for the launch which

features many of the Brunswick Private

Hospital staff and facilities – it’s well

worth a look!

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A cornerstone of the Valley Private

Hospital’s redevelopment will be a

new Icon Integrated Cancer Centre.

The centre will bring together

medical oncology, haematology,

radiation oncology and pharmacy

to deliver a true end-to-end

service to patients. All aspects

of a patient’s cancer treatment

will be accommodated on site,

from diagnosis to preparation of

chemotherapy, pharmacy support

and delivery of treatment – be it

radiation or chemotherapy.

With over 30,000 Victorians

diagnosed with cancer in 2014,

the Icon Integrated Cancer Centre

will be a vital service in the local

healthcare landscape of Melbourne’s

fast-growing South Eastern corridor.

Julie Metaxatos and Wes Carter (Brunswick Private Hospital CEO) at the launch

Julie with her son and her husband

Search for ‘TAC - A Fractured Life’ on YouTube.

Julie’s inspirational book is available through the hospital or from her website where she can also now be booked as a public speaker…

www.afracturedlife.com.au

You can also follow Julie’s story on her ‘Fractured life’ FaceBook page.

BRUNSWICK HOSTS BOOK LAUNCH OF INSPIRATIONAL REHAB PATIENT

THE VALLEY TO OFFER ICON CANCER SERVICES

LOVE YOUR WORK IN 2016!The annual Healthe Care ‘Love your work’ recognition program is about acknowledging

and appreciating the contributions of our staff over and above their day to day roles. This

year there were 300 nominations, with so many stories of exemplary clinical excellence

and customer service that the program has been expanded to recognize management/

supervisory and non-supervisory staff in separate categories.

In the spirit of the Rio Olympics, our 2016 podium for each category is:

OUR FINALISTS ACROSS THE OTHER SITES WERE:

Belmont Private Hospital -

Paula Taufa, Quality & Risk Manager

Brisbane Waters Private Hospital -

Petrina Waddell, Regional Community

GP Liaison Officer

Brunswick Private Hospital -

Margaret Fitzgerald, Allied Health Assistant

Healthe Work -

Paul Keddie, Rehabilitation Consultant

Hunter Nursing -

Kim Baker, CDC Package & Care Coordinator

Hurstville Private Hospital -

Debra McKechnie, Theatre Bookings Clerk

Lingard Private Hospital -

Danielle Street, Equipment Nurse

Maitland Private Hospital -

Diane Dench, Ward Clerk

Marian Centre -

Rachael Fowlie, Occupational Therapist

Mayo Private Hospital -

Natasha Chapman, Administration Officer

North West Private Hospital -

Sheree Morse, Clinical Coder

South Eastern Private Hospital -

Gianni Morales, Occupational Therapist

Toronto Private Hospital -

Tracie Richards, Ward Clerk

Townsville Private Clinic -

Kymberleigh Hunt, Registered Nurse

Congratulations and thanks to all of you!

Category Gold Silver Bronze

Non-supervisory Paul Whallan

Environmental Services

Currumbin Clinic

Marg Collyer

Assistant in Nursing

Dubbo Private Hospital

Julie Roy

Assistant in Nursing

Mayo Home Nursing

Management/supervisory

Liz Day

National Quality Manager

Healthe Care Australia

Lakshmi Mudaliar

Nurse Unit Manager

The Valley Private Hospital

Di Nicholson

Quality/Risk and Clinical Development Coordinator

Gosford Private Hospital

MORE MATERNITY FOR NORTH WEST IN TASSIE

North West Private Hospital (NWPH) has signed an 8 year contract with the Tasmanian

Government to provide public birthing services for the Burnie region. Under it, the hospital

will deliver an extra 350 babies per year on top of its current volume of around 750 babies. The

agreement, which commences on 1 November 2016, also contains changes to the clinical services

delivery model which will see the hospital concentrate on inpatient maternity services. The win is a

major endorsement of the quality and scale of NWPH and its standing in the local community.

Tasmanian Health Minister Michael Ferguson announcing the contract

Steve Atkins (CEO) and Liz Day

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Paul Whallan and Julia Strickland-Bellamy (Exec GM of Queensland & WA)

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MORE NEWS IN BRIEF

The Marian Centre in Perth, which now has 69 private mental

health beds after adding 35 beds in June as part of a major

redevelopment, has opened upgraded consulting rooms and

successfully completed its accreditation under the Australian

Council on Healthcare Standards. The latter involved a three

day hospital-wide program covering all 15 standards and

included seven ‘met with merit’ results. There will be a roundup

of accreditation results across the group in next month’s

newsletter.

Dale Nelligan (Marian Centre COO) and Timothy Marney (WA Mental Health Commissioner) at the launch of the ‘new’ Marian Centre in June

Lingard Private Hospital in Newcastle has announced plans for

three new fully integrated operating theatres and 24 new private

rooms to accommodate surgical and rehabilitation services. Due

for completion in July 2017, the project will cost over $12 million

and take the level of investment Healthe Care has made in the

hospital since acquiring it in 2006 to well over $50 million.

Brisbane Waters Private Hospital on the NSW Central Coast

has expanded its mental health services. Newly appointed

Clinical Director of Mental Health Services, Dr Carlos Zubaran,

and Regional Clinical Director for Currumbin Clinic and Brisbane

Waters, Dr Greg Pearson, have launched a new Drug and Alcohol

program which provides medical input and supervision, group

therapy and counselling as well as a Day Program for addictive

disorders. The hospital has also introduced a day program called

Young@Heart for mature aged people experiencing adjustment

difficulties, memory problems, anxiety or depression.

9-15 October is National Mental Health Week. Held every

year to coincide with World Mental Health Day (this year on 10

October), it aims are to promote wellbeing in the community

and to help families and individuals cope with recovery from

mental health problems. Healthe Care hospitals are running a

range of Mental Health Week events and activities which will

be covered in next month’s newsletter.

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