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BARINGA P R I V A T E
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BARINGA PRIVATE HOSPITAL INTRODUCES TREATMENT PROGRAMME FOR POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, RUN BY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS ...
Ramsay Health Care
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IN COFFS HARBOUR JOURNEY
Left to Right is Peter Parkes, Director of Clinical Services, Elizabeth Ruthnam CEO and Mike Gray Commercial Manager.
services - police, paramedics and firefighters behaviourthe such as alcohol abuse and poor t is a devastating of unrealistic fears about safety or thewe wayoffer a hat combination is your story, values of Paul Ramsay. analyses business in all its strands andsleep oftors in the country! In partnership that has been accredited by both the patterns. symptoms: nightmares; intrusive things “should be”. Elizabeth? What does your job entail? makes it possible as a team for us to make the wide range of services, including most surgical Department of Veterans Affairs and the Other skills covered in the programme flashbacks; constant suspicion and Each participant is also assigned their I came to Australia Well, I am part of an executive team of best decisions for the growth and direction specialties, at both Baringa and Coffs Harbour Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental include strategies to tone down the edginess; extreme anxiety; anger; and on-staff Psychologist for the duration of the from Scotland with three: myself as CEO, Peter Parkes the Direcof the business. This may sound a bit dry, but Day Surgery. We have a large and successful Health. reactivity of the nervous system and provide depression. These are just some of programme, to provide individualised support my family 29 years tor of Clinical Services and Mike Gray, our Mike makes it all exciting and imbues it with rehabilitation business, which ranges from This programme was more than a tool kit for relaxation and rethe features of Post-traumatic Stress and tailored treatment plans. The Psychologist ago, and we came Commercial Manager. We manage Baringa a sense of endless possibility. Besides that, he inpatient, to day patient and outpatient care. 12 months in development, was engagement. Progressive muscle Disorder - or PTSD. consults with the participant in weekly onedirectly to Coffs Harbour. My family continPrivate Hospital in Mackays Road, Baringa is the office comedian and one never knows Three years ago we established Bindarray, subjected to rigorous scrutiny relaxation, mindfulness, And people across the Coffs Coast are hour sessions and is also able to liaise with the ues to grow, and we now have a wonderful Rehabilitation, our outpatient allied health what messages may be waiting for you on an inpatient mental health unit at Baringa. and multiple revisions, and controlled breathing, suffering with it. Whether they are police participant’s own doctor or Psychologist in the Each extended family and great friends here. business also at Mackays Road, Coffs Harbourrt ic ip your door in the morning! We provide day medical services, including ant is pa is now being delivered anger management, officers, paramedics, firefighters or military community to ensure continuity of care. r My first years were spent working at what Day Surgery in Albany Street, and The Baringa Weeialways appreciate that we are part of chemotherapy, and our medical unit offers a to the first Coffs Coast communication skills veterans returned from a very recent or longHow can I join the PTSD Programme? also assigned th st close knit logilarger ho was then Coffs Harbour District Hospital in Centre at the Specialist Medical Centre, adjaa much team. We celebrate range of medical inpatient services, including yc Ps ff ta -s on cohort - a mix of men and conflict resolution ago conflict, PTSD is all around us. We also A written referral is required from your tion of ra Victoria Street, from where I have many happy cent to the base hospital. things together, and it speaks volumes that palliative care. We provide IVF services in partdu e th r fo and women, from a are also taught. see it in the general community in response to General Practitioner to one of Baringa Private me,were among the top fundraising hosmemories. Fourteencrimes years ago I accepted an My role is tooflead and manage the th business, they nership with Genea, who bring scientific e program background Army, One of Baringa’s natural disasters, and tragic accidents. Hospital’s treating Psychiatrists. Thistheir referral e id ov pr to executive role at Baringa and Coffs Harbour ensure compliance with all the rules and regupitals in RHC for the Nepal Appeal. They are team to Coffs Harbour three times a year. Navy, Air Force and the treating Psychiatrists People with PTSD will commonly do almost should stipulate the need for assessment of individualised people Dayanything Surgery.to I am so reminders happy that lations caring forpresents people.information on What is for thethe future Ramsay Health Care d Policeentailed Service. in running a health facility andt antruly avoid ofour the private traumatic suitability PTSD of Programme. re ilo ta d or What is the best thing about your job? supp health service still works well and happily with to grow and diversify the business. It may not in Coffs Harbour? What is involved in the the role of medication event that triggered their symptoms. These Following review by one of Baringa’s ans. ” treatment plThe the reminders public health service in Coffs but it is, because it involves founder of the company, Paul We have on grown a lotday in of thethe lastprogramme few years PTSDexciting, Programme? in the treatment of Ramsay, PTSD, can be internal - suchHarbour, as memories, sound Psychiatrists, the first andthoughts I believeand thatfeelings, this enriches all of us as a constant interaction with people. passed away last year after a stellar 50 year and will continue to do so to meet The programme, which while an Exercise Physiologist or external - such as all participants undergo an individual the needs community. Peter (aka the best dressed man in the career building this company. Paul beof our growing population. an organisais run by medical professionals, hosts exercise sessions and assists people, places, activities and situations. Yet Psychological consultation and From a physical Baringa Private Hospital was the compahospital) has many portfolios and is the go-to queathed his major shareholding in this comtional perspective, we wish to work is held on two full consecutive days participants make lasting positive many triggers cannot be avoided, like the assessment with a mental health nurse,with whenour a ny’ssound first medical and surgical facility, and it for the operation panylifestyle to a charitable Thisalso means teams andis stay thetreatment cutting edge emergper week, for day-to-day a period of 10 weeks. of the changes. foundation. A social worker of a car backfiring, a plane passing low person full history takenatand goalsofare set. wasoverhead, also the fiorrstpeople of Paul Ramsay’s clinical facilities and the of course, that we the work substantially for a charitable ing pharmaceuticals andistechnologies. Participants attend hospitalisasresponsible outattends programme to provide support and yelling - andregional this makes Baringa Private Hospital very excited toThis be hospitals in very Australia. We have been forpatients, the delivery of safe andatquality patient of institution, one that wewith will the be community, hearing about able brings its own but programme. we believe our so return home the completion ideas for re-connecting daily life distressing for a now person withhere to offer the challenges, PTSD treatment It eachPeter day in order to work allow experience skills to be practiced on this site for more than 35 years. Ramsay and mentalyears. health nurses are present each day care. facilitates and in coming deserves of toits benefi fromrunning scientific PTSD. iscommunity the first programme kind tnow in real life situations. to offerservices assistance. evidence that the outside of major cities and offers a potentially HealthScientific Care is now onesupports of Australia’s top ASX undergraduate student placements and drives What does your health service advances. Group therapy is the principal programme Common examples include: PSTD sufferers best-practice PTSD involves life-changing alter the negative listed companiestreatment and is theforbiggest providera the quality and policy framework that keeps offer? Any tips onopportunity running atobusiness? format, which Psychologists educate not wantingbetoeasier attendtofamily or social events; combination psychiatric and psychological effects of PTSD. of private healthofcare in Australia. It is now a the serviceduring cohesive and robust. It would say what services we Always employ people smarter than yourparticipants PTSD and its effects, and teach skills notnot sleeping thehave samesome bedsof asthe theirbest spouse interventions. beingthe implemented For more information on any programmes global company, Both but itare stillnow reflects strong Mike is our on Commercial Manager do offer. in We docself! to deal with painful thoughts and feelings, because of sleep disturbance or nightmares; at Baringa Private Hospital. Bindarray Clinic has to offer, contact our address symptoms such as depression, guilt, conflict due to excessive anger and irritability; Baringa now offers a PTSD treatment friendly staff on our EasyAccess number: If you want to know more about the services and programmes run at Baringa Rehabilitation, contact them on 6658 0322. anxiety and anger, and tackle problematic and over controlling of kids’ behaviour because programme for DVA veterans and emergency 1300 679 826.
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