{"id":9001,"date":"2022-02-21T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2022-02-21T07:30:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T21:30:40","slug":"red-ed-20220221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/facility-messages\/red-ed-20220221","title":{"rendered":"Message from Redcliffe Hospital Executive Director"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Redcliffe Hospital<\/p>\n

Staff Update<\/strong><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Louise Oriti, Executive Director, Redcliffe Hospital<\/p><\/div>\n

Our emergency department is one of the busiest in Queensland, currently providing our community with a combined adult and paediatric service.\u00a0In the next couple of weeks, work will start on an upgrade to our emergency department to provide\u00a0a dedicated and separate paediatric section.<\/h4>\n

When completed later this year, there will be a separate paediatric reception and triage area, a family-friendly waiting room, separate paediatric treatment spaces, and short-stay beds. The works will also link in and connect with the medical imaging upgrade completed last year.<\/p>\n

Our infrastructure team have been working closely with our clinical leaders and our emergency department for some time now, planning how this upgrade can be done in ways that limit impacts to patients and clinical care.<\/p>\n

We expect the upgrade to be completed by the end of this year. Our Emergency Department will remain open throughout these works, with no change to the standard of care we provide to patients.<\/p>\n

There will be some changes though, and the most noticeable of these will include:<\/p>\n