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Yawa Aquatic Centre makes an early splash for the Rosebud Hospital Summer Appeal
From left to right, Radiology Supervisor Damien Barbour, Yawa Aquatic Centre Guest Experience Manager Clare Black, Rosebud Hospital Patient Services Manager Julie Richardson and Yawa Aquatic Centre...
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Faces of Peninsula Health: Meet Michelle Feldman
Peninsula Health Patient Services Assistant and Ward Clerk Michelle Feldman. Photo: Supplied. The next time you turn up at one of our Covid-19 Screening Clinics for a test, there is a good chance you...
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Volunteers return to Peninsula Health
Karen Budden (right), the first volunteer to return to Peninsula Health since 2020, welcomed back by Library Manager Janet Thompson (left). It was all smiles across Peninsula Health this week, with...
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“Power is in your hands”: Emergency Department nurse collects inaugural award
Peninsula Health nurse Kartik Jagathesesan is acknowledged in front of his peers. Photo: Supplied. Kartik Jagathesesan always knew nursing was for him because of the difference he could make to...
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Patient Experience Week 2021: Raising the bar, one conversation at a time
Peninsula Health Deputy Chief Operating Officer Jane Roberts meets patient Eelkje. Photo: Supplied. Patient Experience Week 2021 is about to draw to a close – and this year, our senior leaders were...
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“Like a second family”: Frankston mother thanks supportive staff after...
Peninsula Health midwife Meaghan Church, Esther Freeman and Banjo, with Associate Midwifery Unit Manager Saphron Bonner. Photo: Supplied. In the lead up to Mother’s Day this Sunday, mum Esther...
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“Proud to call myself a midwife”: Jeanette Freeman reflects on 39-year career
Jeanette Freeman (left) with midwife Ruth Boaz (right) on Kitava Island, Papua New Guinea, in 2019. The following article is written by Jeanette Freeman, who has retired after 39 years at Peninsula...
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“An absolute privilege”: celebrating Peninsula Health’s tremendous midwives
A group of Peninsula Health midwives responding to the prompt: “The thing I love most about being a midwife is…”. Around 3,000 babies are born every year at Frankston Hospital, and behind each birth...
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World Asthma Day 2021 – get your asthma under control
Ceri Banks, Peninsula Health’s Respiratory Clinical Research Nurse Consultant. Asthma is a serious condition that affects 2.7 million Australians. That’s why this World Asthma Day (WAD), Peninsula...
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Take a Break for Cancer returns to support local cancer services
Peninsula Health staff members get together for Take a Break for Cancer in 2019. Photo: Supplied. Cancer care never takes a break. Patients with cancer continue to receive timely, comprehensive and...
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“Exceptionally proud”: Health Information Services going above and beyond
Our Health Information Services team went above and beyond during COVID-19. 10 – 16 May is Health Information Management Awareness Week (HIMA Week). To celebrate, we are acknowledging the tremendous...
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Secret Lives of Staff: Concierge a master of illusion
Frankston Hospital concierge Duck Cameron has been entertaining audiences around the world for more than 30 years. Before becoming one of the smiling faces to greet our patients as they arrive at...
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Colourful celebration: Peninsula Health raises rainbow flag on IDAHOBIT 2021
Peninsula Health Community Advisory Group member Hazel Rich raises the rainbow flag for IDAHOBIT. Photo: Yanni Dellaportas. Peninsula Health has raised the rainbow flag in support for the...
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Returning with a smile: Celebrating National Volunteer Week 2021
Longtime volunteer Maggie Bell says she is excited to be back at Peninsula Health. When Maggie Bell received her 10-year Peninsula Health Life Governorship last year, it was Volunteer Program Manager,...
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National Palliative Care Week 2021: It’s more than you think
Staff who make up the palliative care workforce at Peninsula Health. With National Palliative Care Week kicking off on Sunday 23 May, we’re taking a moment to pause and reflect on the amazing impact...
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International Clinical Trials Day: Saying thank you to our community
Former patient and clinical trial participant Ted Pekala says he is in good health after suffering a heart attack in 2019. Peninsula Health’s status as an emerging leader in research and innovation...
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Consumer Rep spotlight: Byron Croft giving back to the LGBTIQ+ community
Consumer Representative Byron Croft joined our LGBTIQ+ Community Advisory Group in late 2019. When Byron Croft came across a flyer promoting Peninsula Health’s LGBTIQ+ Community Advisory Group (CAG)...
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“I feel really honoured”: Physiotherapist Lauren Fernandez recognised for her...
Physiotherapist Lauren Fernandez is the recipient of the 2021 Noosh McGrath Excellence in Physiotherapy Award. Peninsula Health physiotherapist Lauren Fernandez has been recognised by her peers for...
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Dromana tattooist Erin Liversidge waging a cancer fight she never saw coming
Erin Liversidge learnt she had breast cancer on Christmas eve last year at the age of 33 after a routine night feed of her youngest daughter uncovered an unusual lump. And now, the face of Peninsula...
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Take the pressure off this winter
Skin Integrity Nurse Tara Noorman (pictured left), alongside Podiatrist Daryl Susigan and Clinical Nurse Consultant in Wound Care Meagan Shannon. Picture: Supplied This week marks the beginning of...
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