Posted April 11, 2020 06:41 · last edited April 11, 2020 06:49
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A Diamond Creek clinic wants to become an urgent care practice in a bid to relieve overworked staff at hospitals inundated with coronavirus patients.
The Local Doctor practice manager Kate Dalgleish said the Main Hurtsbridge Rd clinic was still seeing patients who needed emergency care despite many centres switching to telehealth.
“We are still seeing patients face-to-face and are still seeing people come in with chest pains, broken arms, and other emergency care concerns,” she said.
“We have asked the Minister for health to get funding to help us become an urgent care centre so we can see even more patients who need emergency care — this will relieve pressure on our hospitals at the moment and will really free up staff.”
The Northern and Austin hospitals’ emergency departments, beyond Nillumbik’s borders, were the closest health crisis care centres to residents living in the peri-urban municipality.
Ms Dalgleish said Nillumbik needed an “urgent health hub” to help treat patients from rural areas.
“Patients travelling from Kinglake, Panton Hill and other rural townships are already travelling half-an-hour to see us, if not more,” she said.
“We want to be that urgent health hub in this time of crisis and we don’t need a lot to be well-equipped to do that either.
“We just need to set up a separate entry and exit door, a centralised heating and cooling system rather than split-syetm, an iSTAT machine to help determine if a patient is having a heart attack and some other pieces of equipments — we can have all of this set up in a week or two.”
Ms Dalgleish said the transformation would enable the centre to keep staff in the workforce, with the opportunity to hire even more workers who had recently lost their jobs to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’ve had to change, adapt and retrain our staff here so we have a thorough triaging system to allow patients to have face-to-face consultations and may even need to hire to get some extra help,” she said.
Patients wait in their cars at the clinic’s carpark, until the doctor telephones them and instructs them when it’s safe to enter the premises.
Yan Yean state Labor MP Danielle Green has been contacted for comment.
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A Diamond Creek clinic wants to become an urgent care practice in a bid to relieve overworked staff at hospitals inundated with coronavirus patients.
The Local Doctor practice manager Kate Dalgleish said the Main Hurtsbridge Rd clinic was still seeing patients who needed emergency care despite many centres switching to telehealth.
“We are still seeing patients face-to-face and are still seeing people come in with chest pains, broken arms, and other emergency care concerns,” she said.
“We have asked the Minister for health to get funding to help us become an urgent care centre so we can see even more patients who need emergency care — this will relieve pressure on our hospitals at the moment and will really free up staff.”
The Northern and Austin hospitals’ emergency departments, beyond Nillumbik’s borders, were the closest health crisis care centres to residents living in the peri-urban municipality.
Ms Dalgleish said Nillumbik needed an “urgent health hub” to help treat patients from rural areas.
“Patients travelling from Kinglake, Panton Hill and other rural townships are already travelling half-an-hour to see us, if not more,” she said.
“We want to be that urgent health hub in this time of crisis and we don’t need a lot to be well-equipped to do that either.
“We just need to set up a separate entry and exit door, a centralised heating and cooling system rather than split-syetm, an iSTAT machine to help determine if a patient is having a heart attack and some other pieces of equipments — we can have all of this set up in a week or two.”
Ms Dalgleish said the transformation would enable the centre to keep staff in the workforce, with the opportunity to hire even more workers who had recently lost their jobs to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’ve had to change, adapt and retrain our staff here so we have a thorough triaging system to allow patients to have face-to-face consultations and may even need to hire to get some extra help,” she said.
Patients wait in their cars at the clinic’s carpark, until the doctor telephones them and instructs them when it’s safe to enter the premises.
Yan Yean state Labor MP Danielle Green has been contacted for comment.
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