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 2018 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
Angliss Hospital
1 West
10 Acute beds
10 Geriatric Evaluation Medicine beds
20
Healesville Hospital
HH ward
11 Acute beds
4 Geriatric Evaluation Medicine beds
15
Peter James Centre
Centre ward
21 Rehabilitation beds
11 Geriatric Evaluation Medicine beds
32
Eastern Health has maternity services located at Box Hill Hospital and Angliss Hospital.
Angliss Hospital has 8 Birth Suites. 6 are nominated delivery suites and 2 are assessment rooms for outpatients being assessed by a midwife.
Box Hill Hospital has 9 Birth Suites; 6 are nominated delivery suites and 3 are assessment rooms for outpatients being assessed by a midwife.
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 upon which our health service is built, the Wurundjeri People, part of the Kulin Nation, and pays our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Eastern Health is an inclusive healthcare service.
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