The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia

22nd May 2010 | Latest ED's | Posted by keithjoe

edited 18th December 2010 by keithjoe

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The Royal Melbourne Hospital is Melbourne's first hospital. It is located at the northern aspect of Melbourne's CBD. A quaternary referral & teaching hospital with 58,000 adult ED attendances pa, it receives 1/3 of the state's major trauma, and has an admission rate of 40%.

A $56M refurbishment of the main entrance, retail precinct, and emergency dept (including Short Stay Unit, Medical Assessment and Planning Unit, and Transit Lounge) was competed in Oct 2009.

Design Features include:

A decentralised model of care encouraging staff to have clinical information and equipment available "at their fingertips" at the bedside.
The potential for approx. 100 cubicles / patient treatment spaces
Physically separated Trauma, Resus, Admission Stream, Discharge Stream, Short Stay Unit and MAPU
Individual cubicles, each fully equipped with joinery, IV trolleys, and diagnostic sets
Physiological monitors in all cubicles
Psychiatric resuscitation cubicle
Bariatric resuscitation cubicle, and in ground weigh bridge
Patient lifting tracks in cubicles
Multiple isolation and behavioural rooms
Macerator deployment in dirty utility rooms and isolation room annexes
Dedicated Trauma / Resuscitation Simulation Suite

Technology Features include:

Total IT asset refresh and strategy, extensive WLAN
Electronic medical and nursing documentation
Advanced electronic workflows customised to match clinical workflows
Each cubicle contains a computer
All cubicles have TV with Video on Demand for patient education / instruction
IP based nurse call system with potential for electronic bed card
Staff ID card RFID authentication eliminating repeated computer logon
RFID driven electronic Staff Board
Pathology results available via real time "push" technology
Pyxis medication management
Vocera voice activated communications extensively deployed, alongside DECT phone system