Message from the Executive Director

We continued our executive visits to Community and Oral Health facilities this week at Aspley Community Health Centre.

It was great to take some time with the broader executive to talk to staff, acknowledge some great work and thank everyone for their continued commitment and hard work.

The Aspley Community Health Centre is a very unique facility as it houses many very important patient support and referral services such as our oral health and community service call centres, and nurse navigator and access teams.

You will be able to find out more about the Aspley Community Health Centre, it’s staff and the great work they are doing next week when we release the Voice of Aspley publication.

Please keep an eye out for it.

Our Aspley Shining Stars

As part of our visit to Aspley we celebrated a number of deserving winners of the February Shining Star Awards.

This month we received 18 nominations from across the service, with 13 of them from Aspley.

Please take the time to congratulate our Aspley nominees (the broader COH nominees and winner are listed further below):

• Roslyn Jacob, Leanne Wainwright and Adrienne Eastwood, Central Patient Intake Unit
• Joanne Ackerman, Administrative Officer, Metro North Oral Health Call Centre
• Joshua Stephens, Daniel Hall, Patrick Bassett, Emily Perrett, Renee Stephenson, Gina Nicholls and Katelyn Gilliland – Patient Access Team
• Angela Hackett, A/Facility Senior Administrative Officer, Aspley and North Lakes Health Precinct
• Renee McMillan, Nurse Unit Manager, Aged Care Assessment Team.

And now to our deserving winners! The Aspley Community Health Centre Shining Star winners for February were:

• Roslyn Jacob, Leanne Wainwright and Adrienne Eastwood, Central Patient Intake Unit – For the continued support for patients and staff, and the broader team.
• Joshua Stephens, Daniel Hall, Patrick Bassett, Emily Perrett, Renee Stephenson, Gina Nicholls and Katelyn Gilliland – Patient Access Team – For their innovation and commitment when facing challenges.

Further detail about why they won will be included in the Voice of Aspley publication coming out soon.

Our COH Shining Stars

Now, to the rest of our shining stars! In February, we received an additional five nominations:

• Kiron Shukla, Advanced Physiotherapist – Community Based Rehabilitation Team, North Lakes
• Redcliffe Dental Clinic (Also nominated for the team of the month at Redcliffe Hospital)
• Victoria Sinclair, A/Nursing Director and Anita Keightley, Assistant Director, Home Hospital
• Anna Colquhoun, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Wound Management and Stomal Therapy, Chermside Community Health Centre

The broader COH Shining Stare winner for February was Anna Colquhoun! And, this is why:

“Anna has been in the CNC role for two years. She is a single clinician in a very busy service, which stretches from the bedded services to supporting community-based services. In 2023 she completed her Nurse Practitioner studies while working full-time.

“She is also the mother of two special needs children. This achievement always leaves me amazed.  While managing all of this, she has continued to grow the Wound-Stoma service in COH, supporting clinicians through education and mentoring and striving for excellence, through research and evidence-based practice.”

Congratulations Anna for the well-deserved recognition!

Next facility visit

Our next executive visit will be Brighton Health Campus on Tuesday 21 March with a staff afternoon tea at 2.00 pm under the blue sails.

This will include the announcement of our winners of the March Shining Star Award for Brighton.

Please nominate one of your peers (especially from Brighton) for the March Shining Star Award with a 50-100 word submission which can be sent to COH-Communications@health.qld.gov.au.

Nominations close on Wednesday 15 March.

Glynis.