Message from the Executive Director
The community continues to have confidence in surgical services available at Caboolture Hospital.
In a bid to meet Queensland’s growing demand for trade apprentices, students from Caboolture State High School have toured behind the hoarding of Caboolture Hospital Redevelopment project recently.
Caboolture Hospital patients are accessing outpatient services in the community during the hospital’s expansion.
Caboolture Hospital now has a temporary new Emergency Department Fast Track area.
From Washington DC to Caboolture ED, Consultant Doug has had quite the career that lead him to our shores.
First time mum, Jessie, had ‘a moment’ when she heard her premature baby, Nehemiah, breastfeed by listening to his swallowing sounds via headphones at Caboolture Hospital recently.
Caboolture Hospital Operational Services Officer Lauren Saunderson enjoys helping staff, patients and visitors.
Kilcoy Hospital will be on one of the first Metro North Health facilities to introduce a solar energy system to deliver renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions.
It was a very heartfelt farewell to Cook Supervisor Kath Ellem who retired recently after 45 years working at Kilcoy Hospital.
After working in a haberdashery store in Caboolture and getting to meet different people each day, Julie-Anne Tattnell knew that she was destined for a career that involved helping people.
Hands-on training delivered at Caboolture Hospital has helped St Columban’s College student Matthew Siver win the North Coast Region School Based Trainee of the Year award.
Men’s health was the key focus of an event at Dayboro recently, which included a presentation from Caboolture and Kilcoy Hospitals Advance Care Planner Desre Arnold.
A huge thank you to the Caboolture Men's Shed for donating $2,700 from their recent golf day to The Common Good Caboolture Hospital Children's Appeal.
The Common Good awarded its inaugural Caboolture and Kilcoy Hospitals and Woodford Corrections Health (CKW) Research Grants during a ceremony at Caboolture Hospital recently.
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Let the countdown begin – it’s just 11 months until forecast construction completion.
The Caboolture Hospital Redevelopment Project (CHRP) is just one way that Metro North Health is helping to close the gap of health inequities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Most women never forget the day they give birth to a new baby, but Rebekah White has a more dramatic recollection than most from the arrival of her second child, Malachi, at Caboolture Hospital.
The Common Good (an initiative of The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation) has launched its first fundraising appeal at Caboolture Hospital, focusing its efforts on the children’s ward to provide both a specialised incubator bed for critically ill children and a refurbished children’s play area.
Caboolture is known for having some of the highest rates of smokers in the Metro North community, but a team of Caboolture Hospital staff and consumers are committed to turning this around.
The health system is often a first point of contact for people who have experienced domestic and family violence (DFV) but do you know how to recognise, respond and refer a patient to appropriate services?
Three years on and the ‘Walk a mile in my thongs’ initiative is still going strong in its aim to collect and distribute new thongs to the people who need them.
Caboolture Hospital’s team of nurse navigators are using community partnerships to make a world of difference for patient’s navigating the public health system.
Social worker Jeanne Tedge and her team of allied health professionals are always ‘REDy’ to go, even on the weekends!
Around three million Australians experience post-traumatic stress disorder at some stage in their lifetime.
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Metro North Health has unveiled a bold new campaign – Health Equity Starts with Me - to drive health equity and eliminate institutional racism across the health service.
Caboolture Hospital Pharmacy Director Tim Dunn received a mayday call from friends at Central West HHS on Friday 1 April, flagging a critical shortfall in their pharmacy workforce due to COVID-19.
The CKW Directorate is full of wonderful people who share a strong commitment to care for patients and improve the health of our community.
The Caboolture Young Mothers for Young Women (CYMYW) program recently launched a new website to ensure young women are in control of their pregnancy.
Metro North Board Chair Jim McGowan AM and State Member for Morayfield Mark Ryan MP joined the Caboolture Hospital Redevelopment Team in April for a site tour of the Clinical Services Building's internal works and Level 5 (top floor) suspended slab works.
The Caboolture Hospital kitchen refurbishment project is now well underway and making good progress.
It’s on! The Kilcoy Hospital Auxiliary Fete will make a welcome return to the events calendar next month, promising to be bigger and better than previous years.
The Research in Practice (RIPE) program was developed to address a gap in research skills and experience among the prevocational doctor workforce at Caboolture Hospital.
Caboolture Hospital’s Senior Health Information Manager Leonie Beakey is using knowledge gained through study to make a positive difference in the workplace.
Planning is underway to move to the new Clinical Services building.
It’s amazing how much good a jar of pasta sauce can do to help sick kids!
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Construction activities on the up and up: Clinical services building Level 4 concrete pours underway.
It’s been said that working outdoors keeps you fit and in a much healthier, clearer state of mind.
Caboolture Hospital chapel is celebrating 25 years of service to the hospital community.
Women having breast surgery at Caboolture Hospital are benefitting from the kindness of local crafters.
More than 50 per cent of CKW staff completed the Have Your Say survey in 2021. Teams have been busy working on their action plans and it’s great to see some of the initiatives that have already been implemented.
Caboolture Hospital now has two charging stations to cater for the increasing number of electric vehicles in the Metro North Health car fleet.
With the Brisbane Ekka cancelled for a second year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Caboolture Sports Club Group stepped up and became a regional re-seller of The Common Good’s tasty strawberry sundaes.
Since its maiden voyage almost ten months ago, Caboolture Hospital’s Red Rocket has helped transport almost 12,000 patients and visitors safely around campus.
Smoking is banned at public and private hospitals, schools, aged care homes, public health facilities and within five metres of their boundaries? This includes e-cigarettes and vaping, and in cars on our grounds.
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