This week we officially welcomed Marianne Horne as the new Business Manager following similar roles at Redcliffe Hospital and in Metro South.

Thank you to Karly Missenden who has done a wonderful job covering the position since last year.

Karly has provided amazing support to the whole of COH. She is happily returning to her substantive position as a Senior Finance Officer in the finance team.

Upgrades planned across the service

Great news from Building, Engineering and Maintenance Services with funding announced to do some important upgrades and maintenance activity across numerous Oral Health facilities and Halwyn.

In particular, Oral Health will receive substantial maintenance funding to improve a number buildings over the 22/23 financial year.

This year’s works will include:

• Internal refurbishment of Albany Creek Dental Clinic
• Stafford Dental Clinic flood resilience works and switchboard upgrade
• Sandgate Dental Clinic entrance auto door upgrade and building repainting
• Caboolture Dental Clinic external civil works
• Humpybong School Dental Clinic cabinetry upgrade
• Replacement of vinyl flooring in the Sandgate Dental Clinic staff bathrooms.

Compliment from North Lakes

Last week I shared a compliment about the great team work at Brighton Health Campus, and a great patient outcome.

This week I want to share a similar compliment, but this also highlights how important our support services are, and the role they play in supporting and helping our patients and services so that we deliver the best possible patient experience.

“On visiting North Lakes Health Precinct I am very grateful to the very helpful man on reception, Martin Leonard, thank you.

“He was very professional, had great problem-solving skills and was highly efficient. A rare find in the world these days! Thank you!”

COH connection blooms

Late last year, the COH Clinical Council and our executive connected with staff across many of our facilities.

A special thank you was provided as part of morning and afternoon teas, and the values in action initiative.

Many staff took away a very thoughtful, and symbolic mystery seed bag which they could plant in their garden.

From that small thank you many staff have seen their seeds grow spectacularly. We are so grateful that Monica from wound management shared her wonderful sunflowers that have just recently bloomed.

And, we want to see more of these great photos by sending them to coh-clinicalcouncil@health.qld.gov.au

Rollout of ieMR

The rollout of the integrated electronic Medical Record (ieMR) across Metro North will begin this year.

As part of this rollout, the Metro North ieMR Program will be delivering Enterprise Scheduling Management (ESM), the outpatient appointment module of the integrated electronic Medical Record (ieMR), across COH.

Go-live is planned for November 2023.

ESM will replace the appointment scheduling functions of HBCIS and HCare in outpatient clinics and ambulatory services. Once live, COH staff will have a single view of appointments, history, clinical information and referrals for each of our patients.

This view is integrated with other clinics across Queensland that use ESM, meaning we’ll have greater visibility of our patients’ appointments, and we will be able to avoid scheduling conflicts.

If you would like further information about ESM please click here. If you have any questions about the ESM rollout, please contact: ieMRProject-MetroNorth@health.qld.gov.au.

Nominate a shining star today!

I quick reminder, to nominate one of your colleagues or teams for a Shining Star Award. We are particularly interested in staff from Aspley given our visit on Tuesday 21 February.

Please take the time to provide a 50-100 word submission for the February Shining Star Award. These can be sent to COH-Communications@health.qld.gov.au

Nominations will close on Friday 17 February.

Quote to ponder

Martin Luther King Jr said : “Somewhere along the way, we must learn that there is nothing greater than to do something for others.”

Glynis.