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I’m very proud to present the 2017 JHC Annual Report, which summarises many impressive achievements and changes over the past year.
We chose as our theme this year aged care and rehabilitation; it seemed apt given the demographics of our customers with nearly half of our patients being over the age of 60.
The population in Perth’s northern suburbs, like the rest of Australia and indeed the world, will continue to age over the coming years.
In fact, the retiree population for Wanneroo and Joondalup combined is predicted to jump nearly 40 per cent by 2025.1
These trends, among many other factors, form the basis of the hospital’s planning of its future clinical services.
Work has commenced on several important enabling plans that cascade out of our newly released Strategic Intent, including a Clinical Services Plan which will guide what services we provide, and to what level, in the future.
Our Clinical Services Plan runs in parallel with our planning for the physical expansion of the hospital. In this regard, commitments from both sides of politics prior to the March 2017 State Election, demonstrated bipartisan support for a much-needed major expansion of our infrastructure.
This will see us add additional public and private inpatient beds (including mental
health beds), operating theatres, a stroke unit, expanded Emergency Department and additional parking – amongst other things.
Detailed planning work continues following the co-signing of a ‘Statement of Intent’ by the Government and Ramsay Health Care in June 2017 to work through what is required to expand the hospital.
With our current facilities and services coming under increasing pressure each year, we are keen to move swiftly on the expansion and we are working collaboratively with Government and Ramsay Health Care to achieve this.
Of course, as we grow, we must keep nurturing our constructive culture. Culture is at the heart of everything we do and we need to be ever-mindful of retaining what we’ve worked so hard to develop.
Our culture is underpinned by The Ramsay Way – that is, the philosophy of ‘People Caring for People’ developed by the late Paul Ramsay.
For the past decade we have been consistently working on our culture and the results have been encouraging. For example, in 2016-17, for a third year running junior doctors gave us an ‘A’ or ‘A+’ rating for culture in the AMA (WA) annual Doctors-in-Training survey.
A recent component of our ongoing culture development program was our lead role in
the national Ramsay Health Care Speak Up For Patient Safety and Promoting Professional Accountability (PPA) programs which launched in May 2017. Read more about this on page 53.
In the area of research, we have, in recent years, been progressing the ORIGINS project - a major new longitudinal birth cohort study being conducted at JHC in collaboration with the Telethon Kids Institute. It was given the green light by the Ethics Committee in 2016-17 and will involve the creation of a biobank which will facilitate longitudinal studies that explore developmental origins of health and disease. Read more on page 57.
Finally, I wish to thank all JHC staff for their commitment, enthusiasm and hard work during these past, very busy, 12 months. I hope you enjoy reading this report and seeing how much we have collectively achieved.
KemPton cowan
CEO, Joondalup Health Campus
1. ID The Population Experts: http://home.id.com.au/
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