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27 March 2025
Behind the build with Rhys Adams
Introducing Rhys Adams, Nurse Unit Manager, who has spent the past few months setting up the new medical ward at Hervey Bay Hospital and getting to know his team.
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26 March 2025
Empowering communities through Advance Care Planning
During Advance Care Planning Week in March our healthcare teams delivered informative and engaging sessions to raise awareness of this important topic helping individuals to take proactive steps in making their healthcare preferences known.
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06 February 2025
Celebrating One Year of Care: Fraser Coast Mental Health Unit Marks Its First Birthday
Fraser Coast Mental Health Unit staff celebrate one year of vital care and support.
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30 August 2024
New Behaviour Response Teams to Support Vulnerable Patients
New funding will provide more support for some of our most vulnerable patients with the introduction of Behaviour Response Teams in Hervey Bay and Bundaberg.
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02 August 2024
Ben’s journey from health worker to registered nurse
Traveling hundreds of kilometres a week across the North Burnett as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health worker, Ben Blucher mostly passes the time in the car listening to music to get him pumped up for the day.
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24 April 2024
Easter Raffle Boosts Support for Hervey Bay Hospital
It was smiles all around this week as Grow Early Education Hervey Bay donated the proceeds from their Easter Raffle to the Hervey Bay Paediatrics Unit.
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08 February 2024
Fraser Coast Mental Health Inpatient Unit Smoking Ceremony
Staff and community members, alongside Butchulla Elders, gathered on Butchulla Country to partake in a poignant Smoking Ceremony, symbolising the cultural inauguration of the new Fraser Coast Mental Health Inpatient Unit (FCMHU) at Hervey Bay
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08 February 2024
Nurse Celebrates 25 Years in Mental Health with Inaugural Shift at Hervey Bay's $40M Facility
In January 1999, Paulene Christie was a 24 year old newly graduated nurse starting her career at the new Maryborough Mental Health Inpatient Unit, now exactly 25 years later she has worked the first shift at the new $40 million facility in Hervey Bay
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21 December 2023
Staff Embrace New Mental Health Unit in Fraser Coast
Over 200 staff members recently toured the upcoming mental health unit, signaling a significant step in improving mental healthcare services in the Fraser Coast area. The new 22-bed facility, the first phase of a $40 million project, promises to
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26 October 2023
Mental Health Week Exhibition
During October we observed Mental Health Week. A key theme was highlighted - prioritising mental wellbeing is not just a personal journey; it's a collective effort. Everyone has a role in shattering the stigma surrounding mental health and making
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25 October 2023
Unleashing the power of movement to benefit mental health
Jason Simpson, our dynamic Director of Physiotherapy at Bundaberg Hospital, spills the beans on how exercise isn't just about reps and sets, but a mental health game-changer too!