Year-in-Review-2021-22 - Flipbook - Page 6
Year in Review
Message from the Chief Executive
and Chair of the Board
We are immensely proud of the way our staff
and our community continue to support our
COVID-19 response, almost three years since
the pandemic began.
This year has seen the transition toward living
with COVID-19, managing and caring for those
with COVID-19, while continuing to provide
excellent healthcare for our communities.
We have cared for 1.4 million people in our
outpatient services, almost 165,000 people
attended our Emergency Departments and
there were over 146,000 admissions and
discharges at our hospitals. Almost 40,000
operations were performed in our hospitals
and through collaborative care arrangements
and almost 6000 babies were born at RPA and
Canterbury Hospitals.
Our Community Health Services delivered care
to 40,549 clients in service locations and 2846
were delivered in people’s homes. We also
provided care to over 31,500 children, tested
the vision of 1459 children and offered 2210
talking and listening checks. The Sydney Health
Care Interpreter Service supported 65,256
appointments for patients and their loved ones
in more than 30 different languages.
Since opening as the first virtual hospital in
Australia in February 2020, rpavirtual has
provided virtual care to almost 60,000 people.
We celebrated the team that worked in the
Special Health Accommodation, caring for more
than 23,000 people since opening in 2020.
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Since 2021 our staff have been part of the biggest
vaccination campaign in history, giving more than
1.6 million COVID vaccinations in our Vaccination
Centres and in our community through our mobile
vaccination program. The NSW Health Vaccination
Centre team was acknowledged with a Premier’s
Award for Putting Customers at the Centre.
We have begun to harness the
strengths and incredible innovations
from our COVID-19 response,
to introduce new ideas into our
organisation, change practice and
make plans for the future.
This has included maintaining strong partnerships
with our communities, together with other human
service agencies.
We’ve formally established an Aboriginal Cultural
Support Team to improve the engagement and
involvement of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people in their care, to ensure the District
has the healthiest Aboriginal Community in
Australia.
We have extended our focus on our LGBTIQ+
Community, one of the largest in Australia, with
the recruitment of the state’s first LGBTIQ+
Program Manager. We also became the first
employer in Australia to achieve level two
accreditation as a carer-friendly organisation.
Sydney Local Health District
