St Vincent’s Private Hospital has been awarded the
Press Ganey National Success Story Award for 2007.

This prestigious award is heavily contested throughout Australia and provides recognition to a health care facility that has shown significant improvements in health care outcomes demonstrated by evidence, including but not limited to, patient and customer survey results from Press Ganey.

This important award demonstrated St Vincent’s Private’s commitment to continually improve its processes and systems to achieve enhanced clinical outcomes for our patients, staff, doctors and other stakeholders. In the past two years, St Vincent’s Private Hospital has implemented a number of strategies and initiatives to improve and enhance patients’ experiences and to attract and retain staff members.

Recent staff and patient satisfaction survey results have shown that the changes have had a positive impact on the Hospital. For the last three quarters, St Vincent’s Private Hospital has been placed at the 96th percentile in patient satisfaction benchmarks when compared with peer hospitals. Click here for a full report.

The APHA/Baxter and Inaugural Sisters of Charity National Awards

The APHA/Baxter Team Award for Clinical Excellence and  the inaugural Sisters of Charity National Awards in 2006/2007 recognised a nurse-led quality improvment and practice development project to improve clinical outcomes for orthopaedic patients undergoing hip and knee surgery. Significant improvmenets included a reduction in length of stay and transfer to in-patient rehabilitation and  an increase in the use of preadmission services and enhanced multidisciplinary communication and cooperation.

Convatec Australasia

Edel Murray, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Wound Management, won first prize in the inaugural wound therapeutics symposium sponsored by Convatec Australasia which enabled her to travel to Glasgow, Scotland, to attend the European Wound Management Association at which she presented a paper on the effects of topical negative pressure on the management of lymphatic fistula.

Outreach License

Xanthe Jones, Manager Special Projects, was successful in applying for an Outreach license for the hospital to enable it to extend its sevices to patients beyond the walls of the hospital. This exciting new venture will enbable SVPH staff to continue to care for patients in their own homes following discharge thus returning them to their communities to recuperate with expert support.

QPHA Award

In 2006 Dr Kim Walker, Practice Development & Research Coordinator and Associate Professor Jose Aguilera, Dirctor of Nursing, won the Private Hospitals of Queensland Innovations in the Private Sector Award for a presentation  outlining a unique and radical collaborative venture between SV&MHS and the University of Tasmaina. This initiative allows students to complete a three year Bachelor of Nursing program in only 2 years thus enabling them to enter the workforce earlier and more thoroughly grounded in the realities of clinical practice.