Heart Health Team exercise physiologist Shaneen O’Brien is stepping outside of her job and encouraging former cardiac patients to be healthy after hospital. Shaneen has been formally recognised for her efforts and was invited to a Heart Foundation parliamentary breakfast earlier this month to speak about her ideas for involving the community in heart healthy… [Read More]

Healthcare workers spend a lot of time caring for others and this festive season staff members are using music to bring a smile to their colleagues’ faces. Mackay HHS staff members Robyn Cathcart and Sharon Heaslip are the dynamic duo behind enhancing staff health and wellbeing through music with the annual ukulele singalong. “Today we… [Read More]

Click here to open the PDF. Focusing on Consumer and Community Engagement The Mackay Hospital and Health Board and I are committed to further embedding consumer and community engagement into the Mackay Hospital and Health Service (HHS) organisational culture to support us in delivering Queensland’s best rural and remote health care. Recently I provided a… [Read More]

Mackay Base Hospital is expanding services with the opening of a 12-bed ward this week. Acting Chief Executive Helen Chalmers said the new ward welcomed its first patients on November 1 and caters for a mix of medical and surgical cases. “These additional beds will help meet demand from both emergency presentations and from the… [Read More]

A growing number of kidney failure patients are taking advantage of life-changing services by undertaking dialysis treatment from the comfort of their own homes. Mackay Base Hospital Renal Nurse Unit Manager Joanne Ashford said 41% of renal patients now received their treatment from home. “Patients rely on dialysis to survive and due to the specific… [Read More]