Mackay Hospital and Health Service will welcome more than 60 registered nurses and midwives to start their careers at Mackay Base Hospital and rural facilities this year. Chief Executive Jo Whitehead said the health service was thrilled to offer 67 placements to graduates, up from 53 in 2018. “We are so pleased that even more… [Read More]

Mackay HHS celebrated the completion of its 2018 Nursing and Midwifery Graduate Program with a presentation on Tuesday. The coveted program provided clinically supervised placements to 53 nurses and midwives over 12 months at Mackay Base Hospital and seven rural hospitals. Graduates worked across any of the 25 clinical areas including mental health, emergency, renal,… [Read More]

Pavlova was on the dessert menu for patients at Mackay Base Hospital to celebrate Waitangi Day as part of the health service’s new cultural celebration menu. New Zealand-born cook Shirreen Colman was on hand to help plate up 128 pavlovas topped with whipped cream, passionfruit syrup, kiwi fruit and blue berries. “Today is a public… [Read More]

Dental patients are set to benefit from the addition of 10 dental students and two graduate dentists to the Mackay and Proserpine dental clinics. Director of Oral Health Dr Ronel Bornman said Mackay offered students valuable training experience within the public health system over five months in partnership with James Cook University. “Since 2013, the… [Read More]

Christmas is a time for giving and this year the Mackay HHS Oral Health team had a reason to be thankful and donate a special bell to the Oncology Unit. In a moving entry for the annual Christmas decorating competition, dental staff turned their waiting room pink in a tribute to women diagnosed with breast… [Read More]