News from Logan and
Beaudesert Hospitals
Wednesday 22 March 2017
Featured: DrEmi Khoo, Dr Santosh Baral, Prof David Rubin,
Dr Carolyn McIvor and Dr Azhar Ghumman.
Digital Hospital
teams on site at Logan and Beaudesert
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Professor
visits Logan’s IBD docs
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Car park announcement
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Beaudesert Hospital
gifted first Cuddle Cot
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Digital Hospital workshops help in future-state
What is happening?
workflow development
The Digital Hospital team for Logan and Beaudesert have
been onsite since early February.
Current activities are structured around engaging with all
levels of the hospitals to complete data collection, workflow
analysis and understanding the device requirements.
As part of the initial activities being undertaken by the Logan
& Beaudesert Digital Hospitals Project, a series of workshops
are being conducted with all inpatient and outpatient services
to capture and understand the existing or ‘As-Is’ processes
that help facilitate the patient journey and delivery of care.
When are we completing this?
These workshops kicked-off over the last fortnight with senior
clinical and administrative staff to be completed by the first
week of April.
Post-workshop validation of the workflows obtained will
also be undertaken to ensure required information has been
sufficiently captured.
How does this benefit you?
Helping the team understand how you currently transition
patients through your service will influence the development
of your future-state workflows in the context of the Digital
Hospital solution.
Equally important is the opportunity these workshops
present, to identify any Logan & Beaudesert-specific workflow
impacts associated with the implementation early on in the
project, allowing plenty of time thereafter to develop the
appropriate mitigation strategies.
Digital Hospital QHEPS page >>
> Car parking
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Minister signs MOU on
A new Logan Hospital car park
announced by the Palaszczuk
Government today will ease pressure
on patient parking and allow staff to
return to onsite parking.
hospital carparking
Minister for Health and Ambulance
Services Cameron Dick said the
State Government had allocated
$5M in the 2016/17 Budget for
the construction of up to 500
Making the announcement at
Logan Hospital this morning,
additional car spaces on the
adjoining TAFE Loganlea Campus.
“From a small, 48-bed community
hospital in 1990, Logan Hospital
is now a major 448-bed hospital
with the second busiest emergency
department in Queensland,” Mr Dick
said.
“The Hospital’s location in one
of Queensland’s largest growth
corridors means the demand for its
services will continued to grow, and
so will the demand for onsite parking.
“As a Government, we know that
parking around hospitals can be a
source of frustration for everyone
and I’m very pleased that this project
will substantially increase Logan
Hospital’s onsite parking capacity.
“The new spaces are in addition to
the 600 free, onsite public parking
spaces which have been available
since the completion of the Logan
Hospital redevelopment in 2014.
“Once complete, day staff who
are currently required to park
and be transported by bus to
and from the leased offsite car
park at Griffith University, will
also have the option to park in
the new car park, with easy and
secure access to the Hospital from
the rear of the building.”
Featured: Health Minister Cameron Dick, State Member for Logan Linus Power, LBHN Director Nursing
and Midwifery Services Lorraine Stevenson, LBHN Acting Executive Director Dr Jacinta Powell.
Pulse
Logan
FAST FAC TS
Who?
Professor David Rubin MD,
FACG, AGAF, FACP, FASGE
> Services
IBD cases on rise in
From?
• The Joseph B Kirshner
Professor of Medicine
• Chief, section of
gastroenterology,
hepatology and nutrition
• Co-director, Digestive
Diseases Centre,
University of Chicago
Medicine, Chicago
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Renowned gastroenterology Professor
David Rubin from the Digestive Diseases
Centre, University of Chicago Medicine
has spent time with staff from Logan
Hospital’s gastroenterology during a visit
to the department last week.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease CNC
Laurel Brett said Jansen PHARMA had
sponsored Prof Rubin’s visit to Logan
while in Australia as a speaker for the
second annual St Vincents Melbourne
IBD conference.
Laurel said as relatively young service
operating only since 2012,it was an
How many?
• 2013 - 67 registered IBD
cases
• 2017 - more than 400
registered cases
• estimated prevalence in
Logan 600-900 cases
honour to host Prof Rubin who also
visited the oldest and longest standing
IBD centres in Queensland at the Royal
Brisbane and Mater hospitals.
“When I arrived in 2013 there were 67
registered patients with IBD. We are now
over 400 and rising by up to six new
diagnosis every month.”
Laurel said Prof Rubin had the
opportunity to hear from Logan Hospital
registrars Dr Emi Khoo, Dr Santosh Baral
and Dr Azhar Ghumman who presented
complex IBD patient cases with atypical
infections.
“Logan staff were also given the chance
to attend Dr Rubin’s presentation
on ‘How to best manage challenging
patients who don’t wish to engage or
prefer to utilise complimentary medicine
rather than conventional treatments’.
“I believe Prof Rubin’s visit to Logan
Hospital is an acknowledgement of
the importance and success of the
management of this disease by the
gastroenterology team here at Logan,”
she said.
“I think we have really made our mark.”
What is IBD?
Inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD) involves chronic
inflammation of all or part of
your digestive tract.
IBD primarily includes
ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s
disease.
Both usually involve severe
diarrhoea, pain, fatigue and
weight loss.
IBD can be debilitating and
sometimes leads to lifethreatening complications.
> Partnerships
Pulse
Family turns grief into gift of love
for Beaudesert families
Community Views
Did you know our facilities receive fantastic
feedback each and every week?
Here is an example sent to Logan Hospital
recently.
To the Logan Hospital staff
I wanted to express my, and my family’s, sincere
appreciation for the care given to my mother, MT,
when she was brought to your hospital in the
early hours of Monday morning in severe distress.
Mum is in her 80s and was in pain and very
uncomfortable, and exhausted.
The care she was given could not be faulted.
From start to finish. She received expert medical
attention with a number of tests given within a
short space of time.
These tests revealed a very serious diagnosis,
which was delivered to mum sensitively. She was
then allowed to go home with Dad and my sister
last night, but was followed up today and assisted
in every way possible.
Despite suffering the devastating
loss of their baby boy, a couple
has dedicated their time and
efforts into ensuring other couples
experiencing the same loss at
Beaudesert Hospital don’t feel
alone.
After Katie and Micheal Dowling’s
son Shay was stillborn in October
last year, and being given a
memory box from another couple
who had also lost their baby,
they knew they too wanted to do
something.
overwhelmed by the Dowling’s
courage and generosity.
Katie said she and Micheal were
able to spend time with Shay after
his birth at Caboolture Hospital
thanks to a Cuddle Cot and that
they had decided to fundraise to
purchase one themselves for a
hospital in need.
She said this was the first Cuddle
Cot for Beaudesert Hospital and
a piece of equipment they hoped
would stay in the cupboard and
never be used.
Midwifery Unit Manager Nicole
Tucker said the hospital was
“If it is needed however it will
give parents and families the
opportunity to spend time
together with their baby.”
Cathy Campbell was one of the people who rang
mum while I was there with mum today, making
sure that her details were correct and checking on
mum.
I don’t know the other names, but I wanted to
pass on my grateful thanks and appreciation.
We as a family feel blessed by God to have been
the recipients of the Logan Hospital’s care.
Warm regards,
WF on behalf of our whole family.
> What’s Happening
Pulse
Body scans attract staff
from across hospital
LBHN A/Executive
Director Dr Jacinta
Powell embraces a
can-do attitude after
her leg fracture to
overcome access
issues on a recent
visit by the Minister
for Health.
Dozens of staff have lined up for a body
scan thanks to EVOLT and Logan Hospital’s
commitment to ensuring staff maintain
a healthy, balanced lifestyle (Pathway to
Excellence Standard 9).
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