Telstra Awards 2023 State Finalist

Arkaba Medical Centre was one of the six the South Australian finalists at the 2023 Telstra Best of Business Awards, Championing Health category. The Centre was recognised for its outstanding work in chronic health management, allied health partnerships, training, and education, and more importantly, its COVID-19 response during the peak.

Many clinics were not seeing patients with respiratory symptoms when COVID-19 was at its peak. This left patients unable to access medical services for their symptoms. Arkaba Medical Centre stepped up to establish SA’s first respiratory clinic, the Adelaide Central Respiratory Clinic (ACRC).

“By providing a specialised clinic, patients with respiratory symptoms safely had their health needs addressed. We helped not just patients, but healthcare providers in the community who may have otherwise been subject to exposure,” Lucy Shearer, manager at the centre said.

The centre’s innovative clinic design reduced the risk of person-toperson transmission while making it safe for people with respiratory symptoms to get the diagnosis and care they needed – when they needed it.

Adelaide PHN would like to congratulate Arkaba Medical Centre for being a finalist in a tightly contested category, that was won FBW Gynaecology Plus.

Adelaide PHN onboarded over 200 general practices and four Commonwealth vaccination clinics, including ACRC, to deliver over 2.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines since the start of the pandemic in 2020.