Southern NSW Local Health District Awards

Individual Awards

Dr Allan Hawke AC Award for Outstanding Leadership
Winner: Alice McKellar, District Director of Pharmacy
Location: Goulburn

Care and Kindness Award
Winner: Clare Calo, Physiotherapist
Location: Queanbeyan

Commitment to Service Award
Winner: Victoria Holland, Associate Director People Services
Location: Queanbeyan

Collaborative Staff Member of the Year
Winner: Hayley Lewis, Safe Start Coordinator
Location: Bega Valley

Corporate Support Staff Member of the Year
Winner: Tracy Ryan, Manager Workforce Systems and Analytics
Location: Goulburn

Volunteer of the Year
Winner: Darian Jirrup-Jirrup McLeod, Palliative Care Volunteer Service
Location: Eurobodalla

Emerging Leader Award
Winner: Fauve D'Souza, Senior Eating Disorder Clinician
Location: Queanbeyan

Elevate Award
Winner: Emily Guy, A/Manager Community Health and Integrated Care, Inland Network
Location: Queanbeyan

Team Awards

Board Chair Award
Winner: Research Office
Location: District-wide

Chief Executive’s Award (Joint winners)
Winner: Nurse Unit Manager / Maternity Unit Manager Pathways 2024
Location: District-wide
Winner: DeliverEASE - Procurement Clinical Product Team 
Location: District-wide

Transforming Patient Experience Award
Winner: SmartChain Traceability - Procurement Clinical Product Team 
Location: District-wide

Closing the Gap Award
Winner: Physiotherapy, Coastal Network
Location: Eurobodalla and Bega Valley

Patient Safety Award
Winner: Queanbeyan Hospital in the Home (HITH)
Location: Queanbeyan

Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Services
Winner: Mental Health Acute Access
Location: District-wide

Excellence in Multicultural Healthcare Award
Winner: Trauma Informed Care Overarching Project
Location: District-wide

People and Culture Award
Winner: Trauma Informed Paediatric Assessment Notes
Location: Cooma and Queanbeyan

Keeping People Healthy
Winner: Modernising Rural Healthcare: Virtual Antimicrobial Stewardship Rounding in Action
Location: District-wide

Delivering Integrated Care Award
Winner: LinkMyCare - COPD
Location: Inland Network

Health Research and Digital Innovation Award
Winner: Virtual Swallow Assessment Project
Location: Cooma and Queanbeyan

ACI Rural Innovation Award
Winner: Modernising Rural Healthcare: Virtual Antimicrobial Stewardship Rounding in Action
Location: District-wide

Individual Awards

Dr Allan Hawke AC Award for Outstanding Leadership
Winner: Rebekah Bowman, Midwifery District Manager
Location: Moruya

Care and Kindness Award (Joint Winners)
Winner: Janelle Hopwood, Clinical Products Manager
Location: Queanbeyan
Winner: Susan Ahearn, Administrative Officer
Location: Queanbeyan Maternity Unit

Commitment to Service
Winner: Peter Lawrence
Location: Queanbeyan

Collaborative Staff Member of the Year
Winner: Christy Byrnes, Clinical Nurse Educator
Location: Eurobodalla Community Mental Health

Patient Safety Award
Winner: Dr Vimbai Kapuya, Visiting Medical Officer
Location: Yass Hospital

Emerging Leader Award
Winner: Nicholas Mason
Location: District-wide

Closing the Gap Award
Winner: Mob on the Imaging Job - Southern’s Bespoke Aboriginal Medical Imaging Traineeship Project
Location: District-wide

Elevate Award
Winner: Queanbeyan Maternity
Location: Queanbeyan

Team Awards

Board Chair Award
Winner: Voluntary Assisted Dying Service
Location: District-wide

Chief Executive’s Award (Joint winners)
Winner: Medical Workforce Unit
Location: District-wide
Winner: Surgical Service Improvement Program
Location: District-wide

Transforming Patient Experience Award
Winner: Paediatric Nitrous Oxide Project
Location: Bega

Volunteer of the Year
Winner: SERH and Pambula Spiritual and Pastoral Care Volunteers
Location: Bega and Pambula

Patient Safety First
Winner: Virtual Rural Generalist Service
Location: Braidwood, Bombala, Yass, Crookwell, Delegate

Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Services
Winner: Safe Haven: Reducing Community Distress
Location: Bega

Excellence in Multicultural Healthcare Award
Winner: Culturally Aware: Learning Local Diversity
Location: District-wide

People and Culture Award
Winner: Procurement Team Gatekeeper Project
Location: District-wide

Keeping People Healthy
Winner: Preterm Birth Collaborative
Location: District-wide

Delivering Integrated Care Award
Winner: Moruya Maternity
Location: Moruya

Excellence in Aboriginal Healthcare Award
Winner: Moruya Cancer Services
Location: Moruya

Health Research and Digital Innovation Award
Winner: Dental Services Contact Centre Web Chat
Location: District-wide

Environmental Sustainability Award
Winner: Green Relief: Rethinking Perioperative Pain Management Beyond the IV Route with Paracetamol
Location: Bega and Queanbeyan

Individual Awards

Dr Allan Hawke AC Award for Outstanding Leadership
Winner: Matthew Stephenson, Manager, Patient Flow, Waitlist, & Whole of Health Program

Care and Kindness Award (Joint Winners)
Winner: Donna Saddler, Nurse Unit Manager
Winner: Sam Mundi, Clinical Nurse Educator

Collaborative Staff Member of the Year
Winner: Dr Nathan Oates, Anaesthetist

Patient Safety Award
Winner: Meredith Fleming, Clinical Lead, Adult Community Mental Health

Emerging Leader Award
Winner: Nicole Jorgensen, Aboriginal Mental Health Clinician

Closing the Gap Award
Winner: Emma Woolley, Communications Officer

Elevate Award (Joint Winners)
Winner: Rebekah O'Reilly, Deputy Director of Nursing
Winner: Rochelle Woolf, Nurse Unit Manager

Board Chair Award
Winner: Jenni Hudson, Mental Health School-Link Coordinator

Team Awards

Chief Executive’s Award
Winner: Safe Care Project

Transforming Patient Experience Award
Winner: Rural Kids GPS — Paediatric Care Coordination

Volunteer of the Year
Winner: Eurobodalla Palliative Care Volunteers

Patient Safety First
Winner: Dental Unit Waterlines Project – Reducing Biofilm

Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Services
Winner: South East Regional Hospital (SERH) Mental Health Inpatient Unit

People and Culture Award
Winner: Respecting the Difference, Be the DIfference

Keeping People Healthy
Winner: Multicultural Healthy Eating Program

Delivering Integrated Care Award
Winner: Transitional Aged Care Program (TACP) – It’s What Matters, Not What is the Matter

Excellence in Aboriginal Healthcare Award
Winner: Trusted Locals Encourage Screening

Health Research and Digital Innovation Award
Winner: Antenatal Care Research Collaboration

Environmental Sustainability Award
Winner: Queanbeyan Hotel Services Food Waste Project

ACI Award for Rural Innovation
Winner: Golden Angels Spreading Their Wings

The 2022 Quality Awards Ceremony was held in Narooma on 22 June 2023.

Individual Awards

Outstanding Leadership Award
Winner: Kimberley Green

Care and Kindness Award
Winner: Clancy Tucker

Collaborative Staff Member of the Year
Winner: Dr Louise Tuckwell

Patient Safety Hero Award
Winner: Emily Laszuk

Emerging Leader Award
Winner: Skyan Fernando

Elevate Award (Joint Winners)
Winner: Dani McParland
Winner: Simon Thompson

Volunteer of the Year
Winner: Brad Rossiter

Team Awards

Chief Executive’s Award
Winner: Queanbeyan Hospital CNMS  “Growing Great Leaders”

Board Chair Award
Winner: Oral Health Contact Centre - Reducing the Wait

Transforming Patient Experience Award
Winner: Virtual Enhanced COVID-19 Care

Patient Safety First
Winner: Resource specific approaches to perioperative opioid stewardship in rural hospitals

Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Services
Winner: Virtual Care for Clozapine consumers

People and Culture Award
Winner: Reducing the use of seclusion and restraint in mental health inpatient services

Keeping People Healthy
Winner: COVID-19 Vaccination program

Delivering Integrated Care Award
Winner: Oral Health goes virtual – a paediatric specialist model of care

Excellence in Aboriginal Healthcare Award
Winner: Going above and beyond during a global pandemic

ACI Rural Innovation Award
Winner: Patient transport cardiac monitoring and escalating and notifying of deteriorating patient

The 2021 Quality Awards Ceremony was held in Canberra on 23 June 2021.

Individual Awards

Outstanding Leadership Award
Winner: Judy Ryall

Care and Kindness Award
Winner: Jennifer Price

Collaborative Staff Member of the Year
Winner: Katie Maher

Patient Safety Hero Award
Winner: Ljiljana Cvetkosta

Volunteer of the Year
Winner: Rhonda Crowe

Team Awards

Chief Executive’s Award (Joint Winners)
Winner: COVID-19 Triage Team
Winner: Jane Retallic

Board Chair Award
Winner: Old to New: Braidwood Multipurpose Service

Transforming Patient Experience Award
Winner: The Dinosaurs Did It!!! Queanbeyan Maternity Service

Patient Safety First Award
Winner: Keeping Pregnant Women Safe and Close to Home

Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Services
Winner: No Wrong Door, Queanbeyan Hospital Emergency Department

Health Research and Innovation Award
Winner: Smoking Cessation during Pregnancy and Low Birth Weight, Population Health

People and Culture Award
Winner: Collaborating for Our Future

Keeping People Healthy Award
Winner: You CAN try this at home! Expanding the reach of a rural Cardiac Rehabilitation Program

Delivering Integrated Care Award
Winner: Oral Wellness Lifelong (OWL) Aged Care Program and Oral Health Program.

Outstanding Contribution to Improving Aboriginal Health Award
Winner: See Country Recover through the Eyes of the Yuin People

ACI Rural Innovation Award
Winner: The Dinosaurs Did it!!! Queanbeyan Maternity Service

The 2020 Quality Awards Ceremony was held online on 7 July 2020.

Individual Awards

Chief Executive’s Award
Winner: Lisa Wilson

Staff Member of the Year Award
Winner: Kate Rice, Administrative Services Manager, Goulburn Hospital

Collaborative Leader of the Year
Winner: Lou Fox, General Manager Ambulatory and Integrated Care

Patient Safety Hero Award
Winner: Tracey Elkins, General Manager Quality Systems

Outstanding Contribution to Improving Aboriginal Health Award
Winner: Kylie Murgatroyd, Building Strong Foundations Program, Gadhu Family Health

Volunteer of the Year
Winner: Caroline Skidmore, Dementia and Delirium Volunteer, Queanbeyan

Team Awards

Board Chair Award
Winner: Walawaani - Creating a Culturally Responsive Rural Cancer Service – Eurobodalla – Integrated Care Category

Patient Safety First Award
Winner: Healthcare Acquired Complications (HAC) Falls Reduction Project – Northern Cluster

Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Services
Winner: Activities Program at Chisholm Ross Centre

Supporting Our People Award
Winner: Clinical Nurse/Midwife Educator Support Network – Essentials of Care

Safe, Healthy Workplace Award
Winner: Hide and Seek: Bega Valley Equipment Loan Pool

Patients as Partners Award
Winner: Patient Experience Trackers within Oral Health Services

Keeping People Healthy Award
Winner: Reducing the burden of disease in vulnerable populations: Influenza Immunisation Clinics at St Benedict’s Community Centre in Queanbeyan 

Delivering Integrated Care Award
Winner: Scan and Send or Video Call a Friend, a Tele-dentistry Project 

Collaborative Team of the Year
Winner: Into the 21st Century! Human Resources and Information Communication Technology teams collaborate to innovate

ACI Rural Innovation Award
Winner: Scan and Send or Video Call a Friend, a Tele-dentistry Project 

The 2019 Quality Awards Ceremony was held in Batemans Bay on 5 June 2019.

Individual Awards

Staff Member of the Year Award
Winner: Jenny Flaherty, Clinical Midwifery Educator, Maternity, Queanbeyan Hospital

Collaborative Leader of the Year
Winner: Jennie Keioskie, Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) Coordinator

Women in Health - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award, in honour of Carl Currey
Winner: Kimberley Green

Women in Health - Non-Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award
Winner: Caroline Cook, Nurse Practitioner Diabetes

Volunteer of the Year
Winner: Beryl Harris, South East Regional Hospital

Team Awards

Patient Safety First Award
Winner: Leading Better Value Care: Preventing falls and delirium Moruya and Braidwood

Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Services
Winner: ‘Together we will influence’ SENSW Regional Plan - NSW’s first Regional Mental Health and Suicide Plan 

Health Research and Innovation Award
Winner: Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography- A Continuous Quality Improvement Project Becoming Australia’s Best, Medical Imaging Department at SERH

Supporting Our People Award (Joint winners)
Winner: Key Health Worker Accommodation Project, Supply Chain & Transport Services
Winner: Community Mental Health Drug & Alcohol, Eurobodalla Health Service

Safe, Healthy Workplace Award
Winner: Code Black, Empowering Staff at South East Regional Hospital

Patients as Partners Award (Joint winners)
Winner: CardioRespiratory Team – Goulburn Health Service
Winner: Using the Voice of Consumers & Carers to influence change & promote owned recovery

Keeping People Healthy Award
Winner: Preventative model of care for adult patients at Moruya Dental Clinic

Delivering Integrated Care Award
Winner: Using beds better - the right bed for the right patient, Eurobodalla Health Service

Collaborative Team of the Year (Joint winners)
Winner: Never Tear Us Apart – Maternity Queanbeyan Hospital
Winner: Improving Care for Patients with Traumatic Chest Injuries: from a fractured rib to immediately life threatening injuries – SNSWLHD Critical Care

ACI Rural Innovation Award
Winner: Interventional Radiology Service Eurobodalla

The 2018 Quality Awards Ceremony was held in Goulburn on 13 June 2018.

Individual Awards

Staff Member of the Year Award
Winner: Gill van Mastrigt

Collaborative Leader of the Year
Winner: Robert 'Butch' Young

Women in Health - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award, in honour of Carl Currey
Winner: Skyan Fernando

Team Awards

Chief Executive Award
Winner: Never stop quitting: empowering mental health consumers to quit, South East Regional Hospital Mental Health Inpatient Unit

Board Chair Award
Winner: Supporting our Managers - Mental Health Drug and Alcohol

Patient Safety First Award
Winner: Mrs Dean’s story – A consumer collaboration to reduce injury

Excellence in the Provision of Mental Health Services
Winner: Managing risk by co-design: introducing personal electronic device access in acute mental health units

Supporting Our People Award
Winner: Supporting our Managers - Mental Health Drug and Alcohol

Partnering with Patients Award
Winner: Four minutes, anywhere, anytime: video observed treatment supervision (VDOTS), Queanbeyan Community Health Tuberculosis Service

Keeping People Healthy Award
Winner: A person-centred approach to keeping people healthy and at home - Wellness Centre, Crookwell

Delivering Integrated Care Award
Winner: Project to develop a palliative care bereavement model for the SNSWLHD

Collaborative Team of the Year
Winner: Once more unto the Breach - Monaro Cluster

Health Research and Innovation Award (Joint winners)
Winner: CVADs – Developing a standard approach to managing central venous access devices
Winner: Golden angels enhancing dementia and delirium acute care

Volunteer of the Year
Winner: Tai Chi Leaders Program

ACI Rural Innovation Award (Joint winners)
Winner: Four minutes, anywhere, anytime: video observed treatment supervision (VDOTS), Queanbeyan Community Health Tuberculosis Service
Winner: Managing risk by co-design: introducing personal electronic device access in acute mental health units

The 2017 Quality Awards Ceremony was held in Queanbeyan on 13 September 2017

Chief Executive Award
Winner: The Silent 12, Eurobodalla Health Service

Patients as Partners Award
Winner: The Silent 12, Eurobodalla Health Service

Preventive Health Award
Winner: Gadhu Family Health

Local Solutions Award
Winner: Accessible and Collaborative Renal Care through a Network

Delivering Integrated Care Award
Winner: Enhancing Paediatric Capability in regional NSW

The 2016 Quality Awards Ceremony was held in Bega on 29 June 2016

Chief Executive Award
Winner: Healthy Ears, Better Hearing Better Listening

Patients as Partners Award
Winner: Mental Health Consumer Wellness Plans

Preventive Health Award
Winner: NSW South Coast Aboriginal Oral Health Partnership – Moruya Dental Clinic

Local Solutions Award
Winner: LifesmilesGOLD better access to Oral Health Care

Delivering Integrated Care Award
Winner: Healthy Ears, Better Hearing Better Listening

Translational Research Award
Winner: Allied Health Advisor Leadership Model

Collaborative Team Award
Winner: Information Services Unit for Southern & Murrumbidgee LHD

Harry Collins Award
Winner: Antimicrobial Prescribing in Emergency Department 

Art and Health Award
Winner: The Bindji Bindji Journey (Heavily Pregnant)

Volunteer of the Year Award
Winner: Tricia Luscombe

Staff Member of the Year Award
Winner: Stephen Jamieson

Staff Excellence Award
Winner: Jason Bennet

Leader of the Year
Antje Badger
 

Midwife of the Year
Winner: Liz Perks

Nurse of the Year
Winner: Emma Turner

Nursing and Midwifery Leadership Award
Winner: Kim Patton

Nursing and Midwifery Team of the Year
Winner: Community Health

Aboriginal Nurse/Midwife of the Year
Winner: Nicole Jorgensen

New to Practice Nurse/Midwife of the Year
Winner: Stephanie Merton

Nurse of the Year
Winner: Rochelle Woolf

Midwife of the Year
Winner: Sonia White

Midwife of the Year 
Winner: Hannah Bird

Nurse of the Year 
Winner: Elise Coppins

Early Career Allied Health Professional of the Year 
Winner: Laura McTernan, Occupational Therapy, Inland North

Aboriginal Allied Health Professional of the Year 
Winner: David Thomas, Integrated Violence, Abuse & Neglect 

Research Allied Health Professional of the Year 
Winner: Michelle Grigg, Occupational Therapy, Inland North 

Allied Health Assistant/Technician of the Year 
Winner: Shellie Berryman, Allied Health Assistant Physiotherapy, Coastal SERH 

Allied Health Leader of the Year 
Winner: Deanne Manie, Dietetics, Coastal SERH 

Allied Health Professional of the Year 
Winner: Gemma lssaakidis, Psychology, Community Mental Health 

Allied Health Assistant/Technician of the Year 
Winner: Chloe van Gool, Physiotherapy, Queanbeyan

Allied Health Leader of the Year 
Winner: Gretchen Buck, Physiotherapy

Allied Health Professional of the Year 
Winner: Anna Jolly, Dietetics

Allied Health Educator of the Year (Joint Winners)
Winner: Kathryn Goldsworthy, Physiotherapy
Winner: Jacqueline Hogbin, Social Work