Safe Patient Care Act
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Eastern Health is pleased to confirm our compliance with the Safe Patient Care Act (2015) and the 2020 amendments to the Act which provide for Nursing & Midwifery staffing levels in our wards and departments.
Under the Act, we are obliged to publish the details of wards that have varied staffing levels due to the patient types we allocate to these wards.
Our varied staffing ratio wards are as follows:
Site
Ward
Bed Profile
Total Beds
Healesville Hospital and Yarra Valley Health
Healesville Ward 5 Acute beds
10 Geriatric Evaluation Medicine beds
15 Eastern Health has maternity services located at Box Hill Hospital and Angliss Hospital.
Angliss Hospital has 6 Birth Suites and 2 assessment rooms for outpatients being assessed by a Registered Midwife.
Box Hill Hospital has 6 Birth Suites and 2 assessment rooms for outpatients being assessed by a Registered Midwife.
Updated: 8 March 2023
Eastern Health is committed to ensuring the communities we service receive care that is responsive to their cultural and language needs.
Eastern Health acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which its services operate, and pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. Eastern Health is committed to achieving equality in health status between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-indigenous Australians.
Eastern Health strives to be an inclusive healthcare service.
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