Year-in-Review-2021-22 - Flipbook - Page 43
RPA Hospital
Royal Prince Alfred is one of Australia’s leading hospitals.
RPA is a premier tertiary and quaternary referral
hospital, recognised as a leader in healthcare
excellence and innovation. A key hospital of
Sydney Local Health District, RPA serves its
local community and patients from across NSW,
Australia and internationally.
This year RPA celebrates 140 years.
Since its foundation, the staff at RPA have
pioneered innovative techniques, treatments
and complex interventions. RPA has a national
and international reputation for excellence,
established through the efforts of staff in patient
care, teaching, research and support services.
A $750 million redevelopment of RPA is underway,
the most significant transformation in the history
of the hospital.
Highlights:
• Continued to support the COVID-19 pandemic
response providing respiratory ECMO for
critically ill COVID-19 patients throughout
NSW; caring for more than 1500 COVID-19
positive patients in hospital; the establishment
of dedicated COVID-19 ICU and inpatient
wards; COVID-19 testing and pathology,
genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants
an inpatient testing and vaccination program;
contact tracing; collaborative care agreements
for surgery; telehealth clinics to provide
outpatient clinic services; COVID vaccination
allergy assessment and high risk vaccination
service; establishment of a Long COVID
Clinic; deployment of staff to the NSW Health
Vaccination Centre, Special Accommodation
and other emergency management roles.
• Progressed the $750 million redevelopment of
RPA, in partnership with Health Infrastructure.
This included completing the refurbishment
of the paediatric ward and RPA Kidney Centre
Dialysis works.
Year in Review 2021–22
• Cared for patients arriving at Emergency
with 79,155 presentations, including 21,730
ambulance arrivals.
• Celebrated the launch of a Virtual ICU (vICU)
in partnership with Broken Hill Hospital.
• Successful initiation of axi-cel CAR-T therapy,
the first CAR-T therapy performed with fresh
apheresis collections, in diffuse large B Cell
Lymphoma and successful completion of
enrolment of the first CAR-T clinical trial in
Myeloma in Australia.
• RPA Neurology awarded Australian first World
Stroke Organization Angels Platinum Award.
• Implemented world-first model of care of
patients following clot retrieval in the acute
stroke unit instead of ICU.
• Expanded outreach services for RPA’s
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Service
providing services to Port Macquarie,
Dubbo and Canberra.
• Established Rapid Access Obstetric Clinic,
Midwifery Antenatal Postnatal Service,
Midwifery Group Practice and Aboriginal
Midwifery Group Practice models of care to
support women and their families during their
pregnancy and enable them to make informed
decisions about their pregnancy care.
• Received Inspiration Award for the Leading
Better Value Care (LBVC) Bronchiolitis project
at the Value-Based Healthcare Conference.
• The Institute of Academic Surgery hosted
550 delegates at the Surgical Robotics
and Innovation Summit and a Research
Collaboration Think Tank.
• RPA Basic Physician Training (BPT) Adult
Internal Medicine Program achieved
accreditation from the Royal Australasian
College of Physicians, with commendations for
excellent hospital culture of training, excellent
engagement of consultants in BPT training and
focus on doctor wellbeing.
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