New documents added to IMG website
The Interim Management Group of the Golden Bay Community Health Care facility reports that new documents have been added to their website in the last few days. They can be viewed in full at <www.gbhealth.org.nz>.
Among the information included under the Design Brief Description of Service:
The Community Health Centre (CHC) is to provide an Integrated Health Service for people principally living in the Golden Bay area although the services will also provide care for visitors. The CHC will provide facilities to support the integration of the services provided by the Golden Bay Community Hospital, the Joan Whiting Memorial Trust Rest Home and the Golden Bay General Practice into an integrated multidisciplinary rural primary care service with a strong community focus.
Care will be delivered by primary and secondary health professionals for personal health, disability and aged care sectors. The facility will be future-proofed to accommodate the service needs of the population of Golden Bay as it changes (the population of Golden Bay is ageing and either a small overall population decrease or increase is anticipated).
The CHC will provide a more co-ordinated range of primary and community care services in Golden Bay which are patient-centric and accessible.
Services and the facilities from which they are delivered will be designed and developed in such as way as to include Kaupapa Whakaaro or Maori values/thinking.
A major aim of this new centre is to integrate services to ensure that the clients get the best possible sustainable and responsive healthcare.
The new CHC will result in:
• Inpatient care, including aged care at residential rest home level and hospital level continuing care including slow stream rehabilitation; acute assessment and short-stay spaces including respite, palliative and postoperative care; and birthing and postnatal care
• Provision of after-hours care associated with PRIME and St John
• Integration of services providing seamless delivery of care at one location
• Better co-ordination and less duplication of information and tests
• More convenient hours
• Improved collaboration (including after-hours)
• Consulting and treatment spaces for primary care and visiting specialists
• Shared administrative function
• Multidisciplinary team practices
• Co-ordinated service provision, including increased support for chronic care management by nurses and allied services
Description of Facilities
The facility should be easily accessible for all age groups with a mix of health and disability issues.
Appropriate location of services will enable the combination of appointments across varying disciplines and support agencies.
In order to deliver the integrated CHC services, a range of rooms and clinical spaces will be required in the facility. These rooms and their relationship to each other must meet culturally acceptable and infection-control standards.
Parking for visitors, patients attending appointments and staff will be required. Some parking for health-centre vehicles will be required to enable efficient use of staff time when undertaking home or community visits. Parking will also be required for the visiting surgical bus and mobile screening unit, and access to the kitchen for Meals on Wheels drivers.
The facility will be divided into zones of activity as follows:
• Entry, arrival, reception, hospitality, café
• Inpatient and residential zones including lounges and dining facilities
• Activities space accessible from all zones and used by facility users and external groups
• Centrally located utilities
• Clinical consultation and treatment rooms
• Administrative and clinical support and staff office areas
• Staff support areas (staff lounge, change rooms, shower, personal property storage)
• Service entry and/or loading
• Staff and ambulance entry
• Kitchen
• Staff parking, including bicycles and scooters
• Mortuary services (yet to be agreed)
Information compiled by The GB Weekly
