The Mornington Centre’s Flinders Ward sensory garden gets the green thumb treatment from Melissa Schaller and Bunnings Warehouse Mornington Activities Organiser Jenny Mann. Patients are growing and picking even more fruit and vegetables at The Mornington Centre thanks to another generous contribution made by the local Bunnings Warehouse. Wearing their familiar red shirts, the hardware …
Bayside Health Peninsula Screening Clinics Administration Supervisor Stephen van Nooten. As the vaccine rollout gathers momentum, let’s not forget the incredible difference our staff have been making as part of our Covid-19 response, just like Screening Clinics Administration Supervisor Stephen van Nooten. In his position, Stephen plays an important role in training and supervising Ward …
Infection Preventionists Ingrid de Beer (left) and Sue Thorpe (right) from Bayside Health Peninsula’s Infection Prevention and Control Unit prepare a Covid-19 vaccine. The Mornington Peninsula’s first public sector aged care residents and staff have begun receiving their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Residents at Bayside Health Peninsula’s Carinya Aged Care Centre at Capel …
Helen Bnads, Elder, and Cultural Lead at Bayside Health Peninsula can’t wait for this year’s Bay Mob Expo. The Bay Mob Expo on Friday 16 April and will showcase many of the health, education and wellbeing opportunities available for local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) communities across the Frankston …
Bayside Health Peninsula Advance Care Planning Clinician and Team Leader, Teresa Gillespie, says it is important to plan ahead while you are in good health. We all have the right to make our own medical treatment decisions. However, we could all experience an injury or illness that renders us incapable of making these decisions, or …
Senior Speech Pathologist Danielle Surwald assessing baby Kenza Pranskunas’ ‘suck:swallow:breathe’ coordination, as her father Zac offers a bottle feed. Swallowing is one of the most important yet overlooked functions of the human body. That’s why today, 17 March 2021, Bayside Health Peninsula is actively promoting Swallowing Awareness Day. “A swallowing problem can occur at any …
Paddy Swayne underwent pacemaker surgery, performed by Peninsula University Hospital’s catheter lab team. When the Pines Football Netball Club step onto Frankston Park for their round one MPNFL game, premiership winning coach Paddy Swayne will be grateful just to be there. This month the 50 year old suffered a cardiac episode at home and …
Jennifer Svec, Oral Health Coach from the Community Dental Program, Bayside Health Peninsula patient Glenda Madder, and Dentist Dr Amar Beharee. Photo: Supplied. The Community Dental Program has restarted outreach programs in a COVID safe way, including providing dental services for people living at Bayside Health Peninsula’s Carinya Residential Aged Care Service in Capel Sound. A team of two – usually …
Bayside Health Peninsula Geriatrician Dr Navin Amarasinghe. In the lead up to World Delirium Awareness Day (Wednesday 17 March), Geriatrician Dr Navin Amarasinghe is reminding our community why the condition is everyone’s responsibility and what we can do to prevent it. “Often seen in patients over the age of 65, delirium is a change in …
Bayside Health Peninsula social worker Kirby Dornbusch. Ahead of World Social Work Day on March 16, we took the opportunity to catch up with Kirby Dornbusch to find out why Bayside Health Peninsula’s social workers are passionate about what they do. “It may sound like a cliché, but the reason why we are so dedicated to …
