2023 Awards For Excellence winners: Celebrating Excellence in Australia’s Private Hospitals
APHA, 28 March 2023
Robina Private Hospital, Aurora Healthcare Australia was proud to become a 2023 Awards for Excellence winner in the category for Clinical Excellence: Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes. The Awards for Excellence was organized by Australian Private Hospitals Association (APHA) to celebrate clinical excellence, innovation and improved staff wellbeing in Australia’s private hospitals.
APHA CEO Michael Roff said the Awards are an opportunity for hospitals to share their innovative projects with peers, with a view to providing a platform for them that others can emulate.
“We reintroduced the Awards in 2020 to celebrate the high-quality care Australians receive in private hospitals, but also to offer a way for hospital executives to learn from industry exemplars. We have a session at our APHA National Congress each year dedicated to the Awards which aims to provide a snapshot into the finalists’ programs to provoke thoughts and conversations about how that excellence could be shared,” he said.
Mr. Roff said the high standard of entries in each of the Award categories showed how much private hospitals had been able to achieve, while continuing to manage COVID-19 patients and deal with the significant challenges posed by ongoing workforce shortages. The Awards are judged by a panel that includes the APHA CEO, the Chair of the Consumer Health Forum and the CEO of Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care.
The Awards were presented at the APHA Gala Awards Dinner held in Sydney Monday 27 March 2023, and Aurora Healthcare Australia was delighted to be recognized in the following categories:
Clinical Excellence Winner (Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes):
- Robina Private Hospital – Older Persons Mental Health Program
Consumer Partnership Finalists:
- Wollongong Private Hospital – Consumer Representative Committee Initiative
- Hurstville Private Hospital – Self Pay Surgery
Judges’ comments on Robina Private Hospital’s Older Persons Mental Health Service were: “This is an excellent model and is able to be replicated widely through the professional networks and collaboration developed with national and other organisations. There has been demonstrative improvement to clinical services and outcomes and detailed involvement of hospital team members at every level and throughout. Involvement of consumers/patients and carers has occurred throughout, and their feedback has been acted upon to make improvements to services.”
