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FACILITY PROFILE

Cairns and Hinterland Health Service District - Innisfail Hospital

Elements of this profile updated: 11/04/2008


TARGET AUDIENCE: General Public

This section - SOURCE: District Manager, 11 April 2008
REVIEW DATE: May 2008

Senior Staff:
POSITION CONTACT
Nursing Ms Mary Streatfield
Nursing Ms Suzette Harney
Nursing Ms Joanne Riggs
Senior Medical Officer Dr Peter McKenna
Operations Manager Mr Kieron Norris
School Based Youth Nurse Heather Diczbalis
Corporate Services Ms Julie Sain

Physical Address: 87 Rankin Street, INNISFAIL QLD 4860
Postal Address: 87 Rankin Street, INNISFAIL QLD 4860
General Phone: +61 7 4061 5411
General Fax: +61 7 4061 4419
Zone: Northern
Office Hours: 0800 to 1700 Mon to Fri

Distance to Main Referral hospital(s):
Cairns Base Hospital 88km
The Townsville Hospital 262km

Facility Services:

Hospital & Community Health Services Acute Medical and Surgical; Accident and emergency; Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Operating Theatres services; Aged Care Assessment and Restorative Care Services & Transition care; Palliative Care; Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drug; Allied Health including Speech Pathology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy; Oral Health; Pathology; Radiography; Pharmacy and clinical support services; Renal Dialysis - Satellite service of Cairns Base Hospital; Chemotherapy; Specialist clinics.
Outpatient Clinic Antenatal and antenatal classes; Obstetric occasions eg, CTG monitoring, neonatal screening; Wound Management / Dressing clinic; Anaesthetic clinic; Diabetes foot clinic.
Visiting Specialist Services / Outreach Services Gynaecological FROGS (Obstetrics and Gynaecology clinic) every 6 weeks; Surgical - once per month; Vascular Surgeon - once per month; Gastroenterologist - once per month; Paediatric Services - once per month; Consultant physician - once very six to eight weeks; Foot clinic - 1 day per fortnight.
Community Health / Community Mental Health School/Child Health Screening & Immunisation Clinics; Parent Education; Palliative Care; Aged Care Assessment; Cardiac Rehabilitation; Drug and Alcohol services; Mental Health Promotion; Multicultural Mental Health; Community Mental Health- Adult and Child & Adolescent; Dental Clinic; Diabetic Education; HACC Assessment; Home Help; School Based Youth Health; Primary School Based Youth Health; Health Promotion; Continence Assessment; Occupational therapy.
Visiting Community Health Visiting Psychologist - weekly; Community Rehabilitation Service - weekly.



Capital Works or Recent Improvements:

$42m refurbishment of the Innisfail Hospital.



Measured Quality For The Facility:

Please refer to the Quality Measurement Management Action Reports for details.

This section - SOURCE: Health Information Centre
REVIEW DATE: March 2008

Patient Activity:

  Admitted Yr-Yr Var. (%) Non-Adm. Activity Yr-Yr Var. (%)
1993/1994 3599 17.0% 42940 18.0
1994/1995 3833 6.5% 42499 -1.0
1995/1996 3967 3.5% 36550 -14.0
1996/1997 3934 -0.8% 43772 19.8
1997/1998 4023 2.3% 41074 -6.2
1998/1999 4384 9.0% 37815 -7.9
1999/2000 3998 -8.8% 41094 8.7
2000/2001 3741 -6.4% 45786 11.4
2001/2002 3660 -2.2% 46112 0.7
2002/2003 3804 3.9% 49092 6.5
2003/2004 3555 -6.5% 45261 -7.8
2004/2005 3427 -3.6% 45033 -0.5
2005/2006 3365 -1.8% 46384 3.0


District Public Hospital Episodes of Care for top 10 DRGs (V5.0) 2005/2006 :
Total Inpatients (public and private)

DRG No DRG Name Number of Episodes
G67B OESPHS, GASTR&MIS DIG A>9-CSCC 147
O60B VAGINAL DELIVERY - CSCC 113
R63B CHEMOTHERAPY 98
J64B CELLULITUS A>59 - CSCC / A<60 76
O60C VAGINAL DEL SINGLE UNCOMPL 66
F74Z CHEST PAIN 63
T64B OTH INFECTOUS&PARSTIC DIS - CSCC 56
X60C INJURIES A<65 52
G66B ABDMNL PAIN/MESENTRC ADENTS - CC 46
O66B ANTENATAL&OTH OBSTETRIC ADM, SD 45