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Brag Book Souvenir Edition | 24 March 2016

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Humour Foundation specialists Dr Smarty Pantz and Dr Dotty work a little magic with four-year-old Hanna on Open Day

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They came, they saw, they loved it! About 600

people attended our Open Day on Saturday 19

March to see the new Clinical Services Building

at Blacktown Hospital.

Our community loved the fresh, spacious new

wards, the carer zones and the welcoming

feeling, commenting that it “doesn’t feel like a

hospital at all”.

Thank you to all our wonderful staff and

volunteers who did the meet and greet,

directed people around the hospital, wrangled

balloons, handed out free water and apples,

worked the tour route and were generally

fabulous!

We couldn’t have done it without you!

Visitor comment: “Nice, airy, bright, wide, roomy”






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THIS PAGE: One of our vollies with Marie— ready for take-off; Dialysis vollie

Janette with Open Day legend Nathan; visitors Ben, Jaci & Kaitlyn on

Respiratory ward; CE Danny and project officer Matthew take it all in from

above; Luke has things well in hand; Security officers Nal and Sadru had the

unfortunate duty of escorting a gentlemen out of the building for wardrobe

crimes. He was allowed to return to the event after removing the offensive

Hawaiian shirt but counselling has been recommended for his recidivism after

he was spotted in the garish item again later in the day. If you see him, please

approach with caution (or cautionary fashion advice).

Visitor comment: “Needed in the local

area for employment and services.”






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HEEDING THE CALL:

Our Call of Home

glass sculpture and

mirror pool proved

irresistible to

visitors on Open

Day.

Visitor comment:

“Wonderful. Love

everything. Can’t

believe we have this

in Blacktown.”






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NOT JUST CLOWING AROUND:

We were thrilled to have the

Clown Doctors from the Humour

Foundation with us on Saturday.

Dr Smarty Pants and Dr Dotty are

play therapists who help meet the

psychosocial need of children in

hospitals all over Sydney. For

more information or to support

support the Humour Foundation,

visit

www.humourfoundation.com.au

WE WANT YOU: Robin and Jeanette on a recruitment drive. We’ve recently recruited

about 100 volunteers for a variety of role sin the new building including wayfinding and

mealtime support, but we need more. Visit the website for more info on how to apply.

HEALTHY CHOICE: My Food

Choice is a new meal program for

patients. Looks like it got the tick

of approval from the kids as well.





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Thanks to our health expo attendees from our Consumer

and Community engagement team, Close the Gap,

Aboriginal Health, Cancer Council, e-Meds, Multicultural

Health, My Food Choices, Go For Fun and Westmead

Redevelopment. And to Leanne, Christine and Sharon from

our the front desk crew!






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HAPPY SNAPS: From top left, local MP

Kevin Conolly popped in for a visit and

met some of our fabulous consumer

reps; Member for Greenway Michelle

Rowland on her walkaround - she was

born in Blacktown Hospital; e-Meds

team; volunteers Betty, Gwen and

Alison holding the fort at the front

desk; Elder Marie Wilson performs the

Acknowledgement of Country to start

the proceedings; Marie Wilson with

Narelle and Yvonne—we were proud to

have our local teams and Close the Gap

represented.






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SPREADING OUR WINGS: We’re used to construction cranes so it was delightful to have a different kind of crane visit us on

Saturday. Origami master Yoshimi Lawler made paper peace cranes and lotuses with visitors and volunteers on Open Day. The

paper sculptures will form part of a new artwork for our hospital.

MADE IN BLACKTOWN: One of the highlights of Open Day was welcoming our community representatives back to Blacktown

to see the work they created. More than 500 people contributed to the design of the mosaic seat that has become such a

feature of hospital street. Back row: mosaic artist Malcolm Cooke; community rep Adid Alrubi; Hikmat Odesh from SydWest

Multicultural Health Services; a community representative; HARC coordinator Marily Cintra. Front row from left: Zubaida Alrubi,

Barbara Kenny from WASH House Mount Druitt; Gathering Place artist Robyn Caughlan; a community rep; Ahlam Odesh; and

Geodhini Sivaraj, Family Support Coordinator SydWest Multicultural Services.






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OPERATION ART: Bringing life to the hospital and the hospital to life, our artists are

an integral part of what makes all our new facilities so special. From top left: Call of

Home artist Leanne Tobin; Sydney Sonata Singers performing; Salamak bringing

world music to Open Day; Gathering Place artist Robyn Caughlan pictured with her

work Peace and Harmony, a terrazzo floor encircled by the mosaic seat.






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IT IS YOUR DESTINY (TO GO FOR FUN): It wouldn’t have been the same without a

visit from our friends at the 501st Legion Southern Cross Garrison. Above, a

Stormtrooper gets day leave from the Death Star to Go For Fun.

Right, could our clinical services building architects Vanessa and Chin be getting

some tips for Death Star supremo Lord Vader? Good thing they ignored Darth’s

advice that black is new black (except for Hospital Street). Our architects Jacobs

(formers SKM-S2F) have just been shortlisted for a Dulux Australia colour award

for the new building.

Right, Sharon gives directions to

Kamino. Or should that be Tatooine?

Or Jakku? Depends which generation

you are! Thank you to our local

Empire contacts Admiral Clive and

General Sandra, and their Bad Guys

Doing Good team Brenden, Darrell

and Matthew.






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THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH THIS

ONE: Clockwise from top, Mary

resists a Force choke from Darth

Vader; Lukas picks up some tips

from the Dark side; Centre Stage

manager Rita in a huddle - thanks

to DarkTropperAus for the pic.

What do you like? Visitor

comment: “Modern, clean, new

technology, local area

employment, services,

streamlined for patient flow.”






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THANK YOU

Cardiac rehab volunteers Terry and Neil

showing us just how big Open Day really

was, and to make a day that successful,

you need help!

So a HUGE thank you goes out to: photo

contributors Carlos from WSLHD

Corporate Comms, Rita, Mary, Peter,

Leanne, Jenny, Monika, DarkTrooperAus,

David, Malcolm; Sia, Emma & Mat from

Corp Comms for the support; Andrew,

Matt and the Health Infrastructure team;

Martin and Alex and the PwC team; Dave

and the Laing O’Rourke team; Marily,

Mira and Malcolm from HARC, and

Yoshimi Lawler; Betty & the Hospital

volunteers; Health Expo teams; BMDH

Exec Sue-Anne, Christine, David, Robyn,

Luke and the team; Peter, Tommy and

the BMDH Corporate Services team;

501st Legion Southern Cross Garrison;

cancer centre staff; Jennifer, Rose & the

Food Services team; our BMDH Project

Team Peter, Lilly, Matthew, David,

Leanne, Monika, Jenny, Nathan, Lorcan,

Mary, Barry, Janice, Jennifer & Jenny for

coordinating the expo, making beds,

organising the wards, setting up banners,

moving barriers, blowing up balloons,

managing centre stage and all the other

hundreds of things they did to make

Open Day a success; and to everyone else

who volunteered and helped… thank you

for your support!

What did you like? Visitor comment:

“Everything. Colour, brightness, social

ward areas. And particularly the carer

spaces in the patient rooms.”






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ON DUTY: Some of our wonderful volunteers. From

top left, Matt, Gracie, Jennifer, Kim and Andrew on

C52 Stroke/Rehab; Brian and Daphne are part of our

new wayfinding volunteer crew, on a test run in C72

Respiratory; the welcome team; it’s been a long day

for Gracie so she’s waiting for a bus home; Kim shows

Norma around the aged care courtyard.






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BMDH Open Day


BACK TO BLACKTOWN: After the

public open day, former staff

joined us for special tour and

celebration.

What did you like? Visitor

comments…

“Bright, beautiful, thought given

to carer spaces, level 5 dementia

patient care.”

“Space, equipment, patient

entertainment system and

bathrooms.”

“Open plan design, spacious.

Extremely impressed. If I have to

come to hospital I would want to

come here.”






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Open Day Souvenir Brag Book · 2016-03-26 · Brag Book Souvenir Edition | 24 March 2016 BMDH Open Day | [email protected] | 1800 155 102 THIS PAGE: One of our vollies