The Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth

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Facilities

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital is home to WA's only comprehensive tertiary cancer centre, providing multiday, same-day and outpatients cancer treatments.

Completion of the new, purpose built Cancer Centre stage II in 2012 will allow us to provide ambulatory Radiation Oncology, Medical Oncology, Haematology, Outpatient Palliative Care, Solaris Care, Allied Health Supportive Care and Oncology Pharmacy services in a single. purpose built facility, handling around 140,000 patient visits each year :

Ward G73 is the hospital’s dedicated adult multiday haematology and oncology ward. The 30-bed ward annually cares for about 1,2000 cancer patients requiring complex treatments that can have severe side-effects or suffering complications relating to cancer and cancer care.

The ward often accommodates end stage cancer patients. However the current ward design is not ideal for looking after these patients. To help these patients, we plan to use some of the funds raised to establish an End of Life Comfort Room. This room will be away from the main ward, providing patients and relatives privacy and quiet. The vision is to set this room up as a "small apartment", complete with a pull-out bed for visitors, allowing family members to spend quality time with their loved ones. This will not be a palliative care facility, but end of life care where death is imminent and it is inappropriate to transfer the patient to a palliative care unit.

About

 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) is one of Australia 's leading teaching tertiary hospitals.

Located at the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, 3 kilometres from Perth, SCGH provides a comprehensive range of clinical services including trauma, emergency and critical care, orthopaedics, general medicine, general surgery and cardiac care. It is WA's largest cancer treatment centre and is the state's principal hospital for neurosurgery and liver transplants.

The hospital has 610 beds, including 109 same day beds and an 18 bed intensive care unit (ICU). It employs approximately 5,000 staff who treat over 420,000 patients every year.

The Medical Centre is currently being expanded into Western Australia’s largest medical, research and education facility. Works are underway on the expanded Comprehensive Cancer Centre, the state’s largest diagnostic pathology facility, PathWest, and the new Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, while construction will soon commence on a new Children’s Hospital and multi deck carpark.

SCGH, which first opened its doors in 1958, is named after Sir Charles Gairdner, a former governor of Western Australia . The Hospital is fully accredited by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards.

Testimonials

Patient Testimonials

"The alterations are a pleasure to view. The waiting area presents a warmer, more welcoming and less clinical feel. The chairs, carpet and coffee machine all add to a far more pleasant atmosphere to the clinic where we are generally seated after some bad news and life-changing diagnoses. The fish tanks also add to the more inviting atmosphere.
From one patient to the gentlemen who provided the inspiration – my thanks."

"What a great improvement. I’m a blue baby so I love the colours and the new chairs are great. Thanks for your contributions."

"I like it...I like it a lot. Freshens the place up and keeps the nurses cheerful!!"

Staff Testimonial

"The last two years’ Dry July funds have allowed us to make significant improvements to our patients’ care environment—without Dry July funds these improvements could not have occurred due to budget constrains. Brighter walls, new flooring, and nicer waiting areas and furniture not only make the patients’ lives better, but also the staffs’. We thank the amazing effort of the Western Australian Dry July-ers in their ongoing commitment to improve and brighten the lives of cancer patients. .

It’s also great to know that we have a stock of modern furniture and equipment ready to move into the new Cancer Centre next year—it would have been a shame to have to fill the new waiting areas with tired old furniture and fixtures.

This year’s a bit different, focussing on an inpatient ward, where we care for patients who required care and management which can't be provided in a day treatment setting. These patients might have complications from their disease and also treatment. Ward G73 is already very special at SCGH, and is affectionately known as the ‘Elvis Ward’. Over the years, staff had collected Elvis memorabilia throughout the ward, such as clocks and posers, which never fails to cheer up visitors and patients, as well as the staff."