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Busselton HealtH CampusThe new $120.4 million Busselton health campus is set to open soon, marking a significant project milestone.

Building a world-class hospital is no easy task and piece by piece the South West community has witnessed the construction of the new building which will provide outstanding health care closer to home for local communities.

The new Busselton Health Campus includes an expanded emergency department, expanded day ward and day surgery facilities, two operating theatres and two birthing suites, expanded dental clinic and medical imaging, outpatient and pathology facilities.

Patients will benefit from the latest technology including state-of-the-art equipment and a new Patient Entertainment System offering television, radio and internet 24 hours a day as well as useful hospital information.Busselton’s next generation will be born in the expanded and improved maternity unit, with private ensuite rooms and birthing suites equipped with baths.

The massive project was coordinated by an

impressive team with more than 200 years of clinical, technical and administration experience and who collectively, are responsible for the overall safe delivery of services to the South West region.

A state-of-the-art workplace to rival any modern city hospital, the $120.4 million includes $40.5 million from the State Government’s Royalties for Regions program and $2.5 million from the Australian Government’s Health and Hospitals Fund for the expansion of the dental clinic.

premier’s forewordDelivering a new era in Western Australian health careThe opening of the new $120.4 million Busselton health campus will mark another milestone in a new era of health care for Western Australia. Along with projects such as Fiona Stanley Hospital, Midland Public Hospital and the new Perth Children’s Hospital, Busselton Health Campus will help meet the health needs of the state’s growing population and deliver on our commitment to provide high-quality health care closer to where people live.

For the communities of Busselton and neighbouring towns, it means fewer residents will need to travel to Bunbury or Perth for treatment.

The campus is a modern, integrated health care precinct featuring an emergency department with 15 treatment areas, two operating theatres and a procedure room, two birthing suites, and expanded day surgery. It also includes medical imaging, pathology, dental and outpatient facilities as well as a renal dialysis unit and co-located community health and mental health services. State-of-the-art information systems will connect providers and patients in a new way.

The campus is one of more than 80 health infrastructure projects throughout Western Australia, and is part of the State Government’s Bigger Picture Health $7 billion hospital building and refurbishment program, the biggest in WA history.

The 84-bed hospital is also a part of one of the largest country public hospital building programs ever seen in the southern hemisphere

As Premier, I am proud that this world-class hospital will provide the people of the South West with the very best health care for generations to come.

Hon Colin Barnett, MLAPremier of Western Australia

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The new emergency department.

Busselton Health Campus has 9415m2 of vinyl flooring.

KitCHen staff warm to new food preparation systemhospital meals were never like this — high in flavour, imaginatively presented, and highly nutritious.

That’s what is on offer at the new Busselton Health Campus thanks to staff enthusiasm, extensive training in food preparation technology, and a brand new state-of-the-art kitchen.

The kitchen’s food production will be revolutionised with the capacity to produce up to 500 meals per cook cycle.

Staff heard about the latest in food hygiene from Terry Mazzuchelli, a Department of Health expert who worked with staff at Fiona Stanley Hospital and the new Perth Children’s Hospital.

They also received training in using the food preparation system from Global Food Safety representative David Purslow.

Cook Phil Martin, an 18-year Busselton Hospital veteran, helped to lead the transition to the new kitchen and found the training extremely valuable.

“It was highly informative, and showed us new possibilities for producing top quality, nutritious food for our patients,” Phil said.

improved emergenCy departmentThe expanded eD includes 15 treatment bays (an increase on the 11 bays at the current hospital) which includes two resuscitation bays, two paediatric bays and a Fast Track area to treat patients with non-urgent complaints to help decrease waiting times and eD length of stay.

Acting Clinical Director ED, Dr Phil Chapman at the entrance to the new emergency

department.

Busselton cook Phil Martin.

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It is anticipated that there will be more than 20,000 emergency department presentations at BHC from July 2015 to June 2016.

The building has 326 kms of communications cabling (which is the equivalent of driving from Busselton to Northam).

Lead architect Jeff Menkens says functionality and design must go hand in hand when planning a new hospital like Busselton.

Jeff is principal designer and health sector

leader for HASSELL, with more than 34

years’ experience including the new

Midland Health Campus, Fiona Stanley

Hospital, Denmark Hospital, and the QEII

Medical Centre.

“This site is truly one of a kind and we wanted to make sure that both internal and external planning capitalised on this unique asset,” said Jeff.

“Hospitals differ significantly from other building projects and this was no exception with a number of issues which needed to be considered.

“Health facilities attract a lot of attention and scrutiny and involve a massive level of collaboration to ensure the design is affordable, sustainable, and with the

flexibility to adapt to change over a 30–50 year lifecycle.”

Jeff says his team has worked hard to provide a warm and inviting environment balancing the use of artificial and natural light.

At the heart of the campus is a double height entry. Landscaped courtyards link east and west corridors that provide direct connections to key hospital services.

Generous windows throughout include panoramic features in all patient bedrooms.

The calming interior design includes materials and colours matched to the external landscape; soft whites, blues, greens and greys to signify the beach, sea and peppermint trees.

handling the equivalent of more than 600 average weekly household washes is no problem for the laundry team at Busselton health campus, thanks to the technology they have available.

The new laundry can wash 148kg an hour and processes around 4000kg of linen each week including linen from Margaret River, Nannup and Augusta hospitals.

A roll-in, roll-out trolley system for clean linen ensures less handling and decanting of linen across the site. The new laundry has been designed to enhance occupational health and safety standards to reduce manual handling and ensure a safer workplace.

Team members (left to right) Peta Willcocks, Naomi Stevens and Vivienne Harris at work in the new laundry.


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Busselton Health Campus has 135km of power and lighting cabling.

patient entertainment systemTechnology plays a huge part in modern day health care and the new Busselton health campus boasts a number of high-tech systems in line with modern metropolitan hospitals.Patients will be among the first in WA to experience 21st century ward rounds, with the traditional doctor’s visit boosted by state-of-the-art bedside health information.

The Patient Entertainment System, which doubles as a clinical computer, will allow patients to access television, radio and internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Available in all in-patient rooms, the new touch-screen systems will also provide patients with basic health and hospital information.

In the future it will allow clinicians to view and update medical records and review a patient’s scans and test results right at the bedside.

Busselton Health Campus is the third WA hospital to install similar technology after

Albany Health Campus in 2013 and Fiona Stanley Hospital last year.

The system is part of a $10.7million State Government Royalties for Regions program funding package for ICT at the campus and across the South West region.

latest diagnostiC imaging teCHnologyGlobal Diagnostics offers the Busselton community the latest in diagnostic imaging technology.

Film and plate radiography has been replaced by direct capture wireless digital radiography, allowing high-resolution images to be instantly available to hospital staff, GP referrers, and specialists throughout the state. Previous images from Busselton, Bunbury and other major WA Country Health Service hospitals are also accessible for comparison.

The new 128-slice CT scanner offers the most advanced technology in the South West, with the lowest radiation dose and an increased range of interventional and diagnostic examinations including coronary heart angiograms. The latest ultrasound machines offer high resolution images with no radiation.

Chris Love, Global Diagnostics Site Manager, prepares to use the new 128-slice CT scanner.


loCal Boy BeComes Busselton’s first senior mediCal praCtitionerAs a former Busselton schoolboy, Stephen Arthur has a strong connection to the local community he now serves as a doctor.

So it seems almost fitting that Dr Arthur

was recently appointed as the first Senior

Medical Practitioner to help strengthen

inpatient care at the new Busselton Health

Campus.

Leaving his hometown to study medicine,

Dr Arthur did most of his GP training in

the northwest and Northern Territory and

spent several years overseas working in

countries including Papua New Guinea

(PNG), East Timor, South Africa and a six

month stint on Christmas Island.

Since his return to Busselton, Dr Arthur

has worked in various roles including an

emergency doctor at Busselton Hospital

and several years at the South West

Aboriginal Medical Service.

“I think all of the experiences I have had so far throughout my career have given me an appreciation for the great lifestyle we have in Busselton,” said Dr Arthur.

“A particular highlight was the three years

I spent in PNG where I was involved in a

wide variety of clinical services ranging

from public health support to delivering

babies. My young children were also

exposed to a different culture in the

community that we were supporting.”

Dr Arthur is enjoying being “back home”

and said Busselton has changed radically

from the small coastal town he grew up in.

“There was no Busselton Rural Clinical

School in my time and I am delighted that

we can now work closely with the school to

support doctors and health professionals to

work in rural areas. We are also creating

career pathways for local school students

who may want to explore a career in one

of the health professions,” he said.

Dr Arthur’s priorities for his new role

are around developing comprehensive

communication systems and continuing

the high level of clinical care that was

provided under the GP-based model.

“I witnessed the progression to a medically

staffed emergency department in

Busselton over a decade ago. The medical

landscape is changing with the growing

population in Busselton and by having a

doctor on the ward I hope we can provide

improved access and communication to

medical services for hospital patients, their

families and other staff,” said Dr Arthur.


Dr Arthur’s priorities for his new role are around developing comprehensive communication systems and continuing the high level of clinical care that was provided under the GP-based model.

Busselton welComes new mediCal administratorA former uK navy Medical officer who has worked in some of the world’s most challenging environments has secured a key leadership role at the new Busselton health campus.

Dr John Pollard has taken up the role of

Medical Administrator and is responsible

for implementing a new medical

model which will see the development,

management and leadership of medical

services in the new campus.

Dr Pollard will also work half time as Senior

Medical Practitioner.

Leaving the Navy as a Lieutenant-

Commander, Dr Pollard rotated through a

number of specialties including cardiology,

general medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics

and emergency medicine before practising

as a GP registrar.

A six-month working holiday in WA turned

into a 20-year love affair with the State.

Dr Pollard has worked in a number of

senior positions across regional and remote

communities and is passionate about

delivering the best possible care to those

living in rural areas.

With the establishment of the new Medical

Administrator post, he is keen to get the

most out of the “magnificent resource” that

has been created in the new Busselton

Health Campus.

“I am delighted to be involved in this

new model for Busselton and hope to

see the continuation of the excellent

communication which already exists with

local GPs,” he said.

Dr Pollard said the new model’s strength

lies in its sustainability with GPs providing

an enormous resource of local knowledge

and expertise.

“I have been very impressed and reassured

by the positive relationships that exist

between the hospital and our local GPs.

“Good medical care is not only about

doctors, nurses, new technology, wonder

drugs or even new hospitals. It is also

about clinical teams working together

and being responsive to the needs of the

community.”

Dr Pollard said he had been given a “great

responsibility” with this new role but he

relished the challenge ahead.

“These are firm foundations for a great

future.”


South West Operations Manager Jeremy Higgins welcomed Doctors Arthur and Pollard to their new roles and said he was delighted to see the continuation of the excellent communication which already exists with local GPs.

“We will continue to work closely with our GPs who provide an enormous resource of local knowledge and expertise,” said Mr Higgins.

Dr Pollard said the new model’s

strength lies in its sustainability with

GPs providing an enormous

resource of local knowledge and

expertise.

mums expeCting top-Class faCilities in new maternity suitesLocal midwife Barbara is more excited than most about the new maternity suites at Busselton health campus – she is due to give birth there soon after the campus opens.

Barbara moved down south with her family for a lifestyle change a couple of years ago and will now be one of the first to welcome a new child into the world at the $120.4 million campus.

After viewing the facilities in preparation for the birth, which will be her second child, Barbara said she was very impressed.

“The single rooms are much better for privacy, and everything is brand new – it feels quite luxurious,” Barbara said.

“I’m also looking forward to working there - in about 12 months’ time when I return from maternity leave!”

Clinical Nurse Manager Maternity, Haydee Cowper said the new maternity wing included two birthing suites and six perinatal rooms with a thoughtful mix of smart design and state-of-the-art medical facilities.

“We want our new parents to be as comfortable and relaxed as possible, and the new birthing suites have space, light and privacy as well as the most modern equipment and technology at hand,” Haydee said.

“Each birthing suite has a deep oval bath to assist in labour and to provide the option for a water-birth for women who are assessed as being suitable.

“Two of the perinatal rooms have a partner

stay option which includes a double

electric bed should partners wish to stay

overnight.”

For added security the Hugs Infant Protection system will see a small ‘Kisses’ tag placed on the mother with a ‘Hugs’ band placed around their baby’s ankle immediately following birth to ensure

no one can remove an infant from the maternity unit without staff being alerted.

Haydee said her team of midwives, anaesthetists, obstetricians and GP obstetricians were excited about starting work in their new ‘office’.

“We’re thrilled to be able to offer local families maternity care in some of the newest facilities in Australia,” she said.

‘meet and greet’ our volunteersPatients and visitors will be

welcomed by a dedicated team

of ‘meet and greet’ volunteers -

located in the main foyer - who will

help them find their way around

the new building.

More than 130 trained volunteers selflessly

devote their time to support hospital staff,

patients and families. The local District

Health Advisory Committee (DHAC) is a vital

link to the consumer, carer and community

perspective and together with the Busselton

Hospital Inc., the Hospital Auxiliary and

the meet and greet volunteers, plays an

important role in helping staff make the

Busselton Health Campus experience better

for patients and visitors.


Midwife Jan Semini shows Barbara the new maternity bath.

Left to right Stella Winter, President Hospital Auxiliary, Elaine Wright Hospice Coordinator, Liz Jones DHAC Chair and Michael Goss Meet and Greet Volunteer.

panda will Keep Busselton BaBies safe and warmBusselton babies will be kept safer and warmer thanks to the arrival of three PAnDA baby warmers.The cot-like warmers are used in hospitals to support the body temperature of infants. The devices also regulate airflow and monitor vital signs.

The cots enable clinicians to administer oxygen and suction, along with a warming function to help prevent hypothermia.

Additional features such as an X-ray tray and inbuilt scales greatly reduce how frequently a baby needs to be handled, thus minimising stress.

new mediCal students welComedThe first group of medical students has been welcomed to the campus.Seven students will rotate between the hospital’s emergency, maternity, and general wards, and local GP practices.

Members of the group are between the third and fifth years of their medical

training and will be working at Busselton until November 2015.

Rural clinical school placements are made at 14 sites across WA Country Health Service each year.

Speaking for the group, Lachlan O’Sullivan said staff had made the students feel welcome.

“The senior doctors and other staff are keen to get us involved and learning everything we need to,” he said.

The new medical students pictured with ED Consultant Dr Sandra Rennie, from left to right, Lee-anne Gray, Terryn Sesel, Michael Kirk, Charlotte Moss, Lachlan O’Sullivan, Sandra Rennie, Lauren Sharp and Callum Peet.


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The new campus is almost twice the size of the old hospital.

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Busselton Health Campus has 3100 power outlets!

Midwife Susan Davies next to a new Panda cot.

multi-purpose CourtyardAn outdoor therapy courtyard has been designed as a multi-purpose area for use by paediatric and adult services.Child development services can make use of play and other equipment for individual and group programs. Adult programs have different surfaces and gradients available for gait rehabilitation and falls risk prevention. A separate section has been set aside for staff meal breaks.

Pictured left: Cory (below) and Benjamin Scown try out the courtyard play equipment.

Twins Benjamin (left) and Cory Scown in the courtyard with speech pathologist Gina Fairbairn.

introduCing tHe new Head of unit, dental HealtH serviCesDylan cochrane, head of unit, Dental health Services is looking forward to leading the new Busselton health campus Dental clinic. The new clinic will have six dental chairs and enable an increase in the number of clients that can be treated in the South West region.

Services will be available to eligible adults who are in possession of a Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card.

Dental student placements at the new clinic will be available in the near future.


The new head of the dental unit Dylan Cochrane in the expanded dental clinic.

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More than 8300 pieces of equipment have been moved into more than 600 rooms and areas.

Lorenna Grant captures a different perspective of her ‘Little Healer’ artwork.

‘Big Healer’ set to join ‘little Healer’‘Little healer’, the first of the two public artworks, will soon be joined by ‘Big healer’ as a focal point of the campus.Perth artist Lorenna Grant’s four-metre laminated wood artwork has been mounted in steel frames in the entrance atrium.

She is in the process of creating ‘Big Healer’, a six-metre piece to be installed soon near the front entrance following completion of landscaping.

Both artworks have been funded by the state government’s Per Cent for Art Scheme.

new patHwest CentrePathWest operates the only laboratory in the Busselton area supporting the community’s wider pathology needs around the clock.

The new Busselton Health Campus facility offers state-of-the-art diagnostic instruments and a vastly improved patient experience in line with the high quality service PathWest provides state-wide.


Brian Tucker, Medical Scientist in Charge (left) and Shannon Scott, Technical Assistant, outside the new PathWest Laboratory, designed to accommodate anticipated future growth.

PathWest Specimen collection centreGround Floor, Busselton Health CampusMill Road, Busselton, 6280

Monday to Friday: 8.00am – 5.00pmSaturday: 9.00am – 11.00am

Telephone: 9753 6260www.pathwest.health.wa.gov.au

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The team leading the development has more than 200 years of clinical, technical and administration experience.

Busselton health campusMill road, Busselton WA 6280Postal address: Locked Bag 3, Busselton WA 6280open 6.30 am–8.30 pm After-hours access via the emergency Department

visiting hours 10.00 am–8.30 pm (patient rest period 1.30 pm–3.00 pm)Main reception: 9753 6000Ambulatory care reception: 9753 6500community Mental health reception: 9753 6400

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