Gold Coast Health News
The latest news at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service.

Raising Autism awareness through art
Maud Achard (pictured) is a Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician who works as a Dietitian in the Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit at GCUH and in a neurodivergent-led private clinic for neurodivergent persons.
As an Autistic person herself, Maud brings a unique perspective to supporting neurodivergent people with feeding differences and eating disorders. For Maud personally, art has provided a platform for to share what it can feel like to experience the world differently.

Gold Coast Health initiatives in the running for Premier's Excellence Award
Two Gold Coast Health initiatives are in the running to receive an award at this Year's Premier Awards for Excellence after being announced as finalists in the? Better health and wellbeing Services category. The Awards?recognise high performance and outstanding achievement across the Queensland public sector.
Finalist 1: Day Case Hysterectomy

Coomera Hospital continues to progress
The Coomera Hospital continues to advance, with the site now cleared, retaining walls being built and earthworks underway to level the site.
Schematic design is nearing completion and will transition into the detailed design phase in the coming months.
For the uninitiated, schematic design is a draft construction concept that offers an overview of a project's basic features and construction cost estimates. Detailed design develops the approved conceptual design into a precise physical plan of all parts of the structure and how they fit together.

Tugun paves way for future of medication dispensing
Tugun Satellite Hospital?¨C co-named Banyahrmabah, meaning ¡°a place to be made healthy¡± ¨C has paved the way for the future of medication administration with the introduction of Automated Dispensing Cabinets (ADCs).
The ADCs are locked computer-controlled machines that store, dispense, and track medication, simplifying and de-risking the medication dispensing process.

Six-year-old Lyla the first plaster patient at the new Robina ED Expansion
An unfortunate fall at school led six-year-old Lyla to become the first patient to receive treatment at the new Robina ED Expansion¡¯s plaster room.

Robina ED expands to include 20 new treatment spaces
Gold Coast residents visiting Robina Hospital¡¯s Emergency Department (ED) will be seen quicker, thanks to a $16.5 million investment in the hospital.

Baby Tillie celebrates 100 days in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Baby Tillie is one determined, strong and very brave baby. Born at just 24 weeks and two days, she reached an important milestone recently ¨C 100 days in our neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
To mark the occasion, Ronald McDonald House and NICU staff organised a celebration for Tillie¡¯s mum Ashleigh, dad Anthony, sister Kobie and loving family and friends.

Celebrating our diverse cultural landscape
Gold Coast health's Creative Health Hub in collaboration with local not-for-profit is excited to explore the Gold Coast's multicultural landscape with 'The People & The Place - Gold Coast' exhibition.??

Measles Alert for Gold Coast - notification of further cases
Gold Coast Public Health Unit has been notified of two additional infectious cases of measles on the Gold Coast. One case is a school-aged child from the Gold Coast who recently returned from overseas where they acquired the virus. The other is an adult who visited the Gold Coast from Sydney.

Newly Qualified Nurses and Midwives join Gold Coast Health
Gold Coast Health welcomed its largest cohort of newly qualified nurses and midwives last month.