Year-in-Review-2021-22 - Flipbook - Page 40
Concord Hospital
Concord Repatriation General Hospital is
one of the state’s leading teaching hospitals.
Concord Hospital is part of Sydney Local
Health District’s network of hospitals and services
and offers a comprehensive range of specialty
and sub-specialty services — many are recognised
nationally and internationally as centres of
excellence. These include the state-wide burns
service, colorectal surgery, laparoscopic
surgery, molecular biology and genetic laboratory,
aged and extended care, gastroenterology and
palliative care.
• Responded to more than 40,628 Emergency
Department (ED) presentations, with 16,421
ED admissions.
Concord Hospital is home to Australia’s first
National Centre for Veterans’ Healthcare to
support the health and wellbeing of veterans
and their families.
• Commenced capital works for the Positron
Emission Tomography (PET) Computed
Tomography (CT) service at Concord Hospital.
Highlights:
• Continued to support the COVID-19 pandemic
response, including fast tracking the opening
of the new Clinical Services Building to care
for COVID-19 patients; COVID-19 testing; an
inpatient vaccination program; deployment of
staff to the NSW Health Vaccination Centre
at Sydney Olympic Park; establishment of an
enhanced model of care for the Emergency
Department; outpatient clinic services via
telehealth.
• Facilitated 560,745 outpatient appointments,
in addition to 3656 occasions of service in the
Bulbuwal Mudjin Midwifery Clinic.
• Completed 9627 surgeries, including
collaborative care and 3366 emergency
procedures.
• Progressed planning for Stage Two of the
Concord Hospital Redevelopment.
• Implemented electronic medical record (eMR)
documentation in the Intensive Care Unit.
40,628 presentations to the
Emergency Department.
• Officially opened the Concord Hospital $341.2
million Rusty Priest Building Redevelopment
in partnership with Health Infrastructure,
providing inpatient Aged Care, Psychogeriatric,
Rehabilitation and Oncology services. We
launched the Advanced Radiation Oncology
Service in the Rusty Priest Building, in
partnership with the ICON Cancer Centre.
• Supported the health and wellbeing of
more than 193 Veterans and their families
through Concord Hospital’s National Centre
for Veterans’ Healthcare.
560,745 outpatient appointments,
in addition to 3656 occasions
of service in the Bulbuwal Mudjin
Midwifery Clinic.
• Officially opened Fussell House, a 19 room
residential accommodation facility for Veterans
and their families while being cared for at the
National Centre for Veterans’ Healthcare.
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