We invite you to come and learn about the new Hospital@home service in the South and how your patients could benefit from being referred.
This webinar will focus on the new Hospital@home service in the south.
Hospital@home is a new service which aims to optimise care at home, providing expanded consumer choice and building on well-established and successful programs.
Hospital@home integrates and expands on current services provided by the existing Hospital in the Home (HITH), Community Rapid Response Service (ComRRS), and Allied Health Rapid Response Team (AHRRT). The Hospital@home service will leverage virtual care and digital technologies to provide a single referral point for patients of Southern Tasmania to access rapid response non-admitted care and acute and subacute admitted care in the community setting if it is safe to do so. Hospital@home will operate from a newly established Centralised Hub, increasing virtual ward capacity and further expanding the reach of community interventions.
During this session you will find out what is changing, the service model, launch date and be provided with a Model of Care overview. The webinar will also provide practical tools on how to refer into the service, provide a case presentation and have a Q&A session at the end.
Topics covered during this session will include:
• Referral pathways for GPs and of health professionals
• Case study presentations
• Benefits for patients
The learning objectives covered in this event are:
• Develop a sound understanding of the new Hospital@home service
• Understand the admission criteria and process for referring to the Hospital@home service
• Understanding the benefits of the Hospital@home service for patients
Speaker information:
Rebecca Wilford Most recently working in projects in the Allied Heath Strategy and Research Unit for Hospitals South. With post graduate studies in project management and clinical redesign her most recent project was co-designing and implementing the Rapid Assessment Medical Unit and its Model of Care at the Royal Hobart Hospital. Rebecca’s clinical background is as an occupational therapist for over 20 years working in Tasmania, interstate and the United Kingdom.
Miena Arnol is a registered nurse with board nursing experience, both within the acute care and community sector. Miena has completed post-graduate studies in both emergency and gerontological nursing.
Bianca Jones is an emerging Pharmacy leader, recently being awarded an Early Career Pharmacist Award for Tasmania 2023. Her experience as the first Royal Hobart Hospital Pharmacy Resident has led her to have increasing experience in leadership roles now a part of the Tasmanian Virtual Care team. She is open to change and has flexibility in new teams and environments.
Dr Iestyn Lewis is the Head of Department, and one of the founding consultants of the Royal Hobart Hospital’s Hospital@home Service. He trained in the UK, before moving to New Zealand in 2005 where he started his Emergency Medicine Training. That journey took him to Melbourne and then Hobart. He became a Fellow of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine in 2012. A fellowship in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine followed. In 2020 as part of the state’s covid response Iestyn was involved in setting up a Hospital@home programme to relieve bed pressure on the Royal Hobart Hospital. This service has proved its worth and is currently expanding. Iestyn has interests in medical education, chronic wound management and hospital avoidance for vulnerable populations.
Alison Graham is an Occupational Therapist with 30 years’ experience. Alison completed her Bachelor of Occupational Therapy in Victoria and has worked overseas in America and Ireland. She has experience in Paediatrics, Hand Therapy, Workplace Rehabilitation and Community. She has a passion for rural health and worked for many years in the Break O’Day area before settling in Hobart 8 years ago. Alison was involved in setting up the expanded Allied Health service in the sub-acute facility at New Norfolk. Since then, she has enjoyed working with and developing the Allied Health Rapid Response Team. This team works closely with the current Hospital in The Home Team, ED, Community Nurses and Ambulance Tasmania, with the aim to keep clients at home and avoiding hospital presentations. The Allied Health Rapid Response Team is integrating with the current HiTH and ComRRS teams to form the expanded Hospital@home service and Alison is looking forward to being one of the Occupational Therapists in this team.