{"id":8977,"date":"2022-02-07T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2022-02-07T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:21:32","slug":"ed-tpch-20220207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/facility-messages\/ed-tpch-20220207","title":{"rendered":"Message from TPCH Executive Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1352px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"31 August 2020\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/tpch-banner.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3991 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:10px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"attachment_4086\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4086\" class=\"wp-image-4086 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/photinos-tami-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tami Photinos\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tami Photinos, Executive Director, The Prince Charles Hospital<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Welcome to another week.<\/h4>\n<p>As mentioned in today\u2019s message from the Metro North Incident Controller, Metro North has now\u00a0moved to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/comms.health.qld.gov.au\/ch\/92002\/6bt0r\/2499\/DKeXuNzfdrMnR16kSJ3Pf2FEIP.TzXMwqleRvQtu.pdf\">Tier 3<\/a>\u00a0in its COVID-19 response plan, due to lower reported community transmission, and fewer hospitalisations and staff out of the workplace as COVID positive or close contacts.<\/p>\n<p>While this allows us to resume some planned care, this needs to be done in a managed way. Our priority is still on ensuring we have adequate staff and resources for our COVID response work such as fever clinics, COVID patient care, and vaccination centres.<\/p>\n<p>We will resume semi-urgent and long wait category 2 planned care, with the preference for virtual appointments where possible.<\/p>\n<p>Key points in Tier 3:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only urgent elective surgery and procedures to deploy staff to COVID-related care.<\/li>\n<li>Outpatient appointments to be virtual, only urgent face to face where virtual is not clinically appropriate.<\/li>\n<li>Visitors per\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/comms.health.qld.gov.au\/ch\/92002\/6bt0r\/791\/DKeXuNzfdrMnR16kSJ3PlE_OuVj.tV7mNl1dcno_.html\">CHO direction<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>No students or volunteers onsite.<\/li>\n<li>Virtual meetings only, suspension of non-essential meetings.<\/li>\n<li>No face to face training, essential training to be delivered virtually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due to the change in Tier, I will be also reducing the number of staff updates from this week.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any non-COVID-19 related stories or photos relating to the great work you or your team is doing, please share them with us.<\/p>\n<h2>Vaccination clinic relocation<\/h2>\n<p>Please be reminded that TPCH\u2019s COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic has now relocated to the Infection Control Unit on Level 3, Clinical Sciences Building.<\/p>\n<p>TPCH Pfizer Vaccine Clinic will operate from 1pm \u2013 4pm, Mondays and Thursdays.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #c00000\">Note: This is a <u>TPCH staff only<\/u> clinic and will require an appointment.<br \/>\nFamily members will need to access alternate testing clinics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To book an appointment, please contact Infection Management on&nbsp;3139&nbsp;4894 and provide your name, mobile phone number and preferred appointment date and time. A vaccination nurse will contact you to confirm your appointment details.<\/p>\n<h2>New registrars welcomed<\/h2>\n<p>I would like to extend a warm welcome to the 122 new registrars who commenced at TPCH today. Some have moved from great distances such as the UK, while others have transferred from other Queensland Hospitals including the Princess Alexandra or Townsville. Registrars attended a virtual orientation today in line with current COVID requirements.\u00a0These registrars will be given the opportunity to learn and develop alongside many of our highly talented and experienced clinicians as they advance in their medical career. We wish them well and extend a warm TPCH welcome as they commence their clinical roles.<\/p>\n<h2>Change to extended Caf\u00e9 Operating Hours<\/h2>\n<p>Please be advised that The Caf\u00e9 for The Common Good\u2019s extended trading hours will continue until the end of this week. From today until Friday 11 February, the caf\u00e9 will be open until\u00a0<strong>8.00pm<\/strong>. Following this, it will resume its normal hours of operation which are:<\/p>\n<p>Monday to Friday: 7am to 6pm<br \/>\nWeekends: 8am \u2013 3pm<\/p>\n<h2>My quote for today<\/h2>\n<p><em>\u201cYou can learn new things at any time in your life if you\u2019re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you\u201d &#8211;\u00a0Barbara Shur<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nTami Photinos<br \/>\n<\/strong>Executive Director<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another week.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned in today\u2019s message from the Metro North Incident Controller, Metro North has now moved to Tier 3 in its COVID-19 response plan, due to lower reported community transmission, and fewer hospitalisations and staff out of the workplace as COVID positive or close contacts.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[160,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facility-messages","category-ed-tpch"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Message from TPCH Executive Director - Staff Extranet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Message from TPCH Executive Director - Staff Extranet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Welcome to another week. 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