The district’s annual awards ceremony featured more winners than ever with 18 recipients nominated for their “hard work and outstanding success”.
Registered nurse Jasmin Jones, employed by Grenfell Multipurpose Service, and support services manager with Narromine Health Services Tammy Jones were dually awarded Staff Member of the Year at Western NSW LHD’s annual awards ceremony, with awards presented across 18 different individual, team and project categories.
The awards are designed to highlight and promote innovation in service provision, quality of clinical care and patient experience across the region with two new categories added under “projects” for this year’s ceremony: the Health Research Award and the Excellence in the Provision of Multicultural Healthcare Award.
Ms Jasmin Jones was recognised for spearheading Grenfell’s pressure injury prevention initiative and Ms Tammy Jones for enhancing patient care through her leadership and “commitment to continuous improvement and excellence”.
Elizabeth Allen was presented with Volunteer of the Year in recognition of more than a decade’s work assisting governance teams in Dubbo and advocating for community representation in the redevelopment of Dubbo hospital, while the CEO’s Award went to Orange City Council’s circular recycling program.
WNSWLHD CEO Mark Spittal said the annual awards were an opportunity for the district to shine a spotlight on the outstanding work of health professionals across the region.
“Every year this event allows us to see and appreciate the amazing work our staff do right across our District. Importantly, it gives us an opportunity to come together to celebrate and recognise those achievements,” Mr Spittal said.
“I thoroughly congratulate all our winners and finalists, there were so many worthy projects that were submitted for consideration across the District. Our entire District is so proud of our staff’s work and the care they provide.
“We are truly grateful to have such dedicated healthcare professionals in western NSW, of whom our communities can be justifiably proud.”
The full list of winners:
- Staff Member of the Year Award: Jasmin Jones (Registered Nurse, Grenfell Multipurpose Service) and Tammy Jones (Support Services Manager, Narromine Health Service)
- Volunteer of the Year Award: Elizabeth Allen (Dubbo)
- Chief Executive’s Award: Circular recycling program Orange
- Board’s Choice Award: First experience, lasting impression – Paediatric clothing pool Dubbo
- People’s Choice Award: Occupational Therapy in the Emergency Department
- Senior Leader of the Year: WNSWLHD Patient Safety Manager Jo Lemmich
- Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) Rural Innovation Award: Public Health Analytics Dashboard
- Excellence in Aboriginal Healthcare Award: Right time, Right place: Innovative collaboration to connect women from Western NSW to world-class cancer treatment
- Health Innovation Award: Scan – Reuse – Reduce
- Inspiring Teams Award: Mudgee Health Service, food service team
- Keeping People Healthy Award: Cervical screening during pregnancy Dubbo
- Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Services Award: Turning in to kids
- Transforming Patient Experience Award: Oral health waiting list reform
- Patient Safety First Award: Changing the slippery slope of deteriorating patients
- People and Culture Award: Allied Health Rural Graduate Program
- Health Research Award: Intrapleural fibrinolytic therapy in regional NSW hospital
- Excellence in the Provision of Multicultural Healthcare Award: Arogya: Co-designing solutions to healthcare disparities in Dubbo’s migrant community
- Environmental Sustainability Award: Excess PPE Management Success