Our expansive
footprint is supported by a range of clinicians and a contemporary model of
care to suit. The multidisciplinary team across our service providing bedside
care and organisation wide clinical support in the is made up of;
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physiotherapists
- Occupational therapists
- Aged Services Emergency Team
- Drug and Alcohol Clinician
- Emergency Department Assistants
- Clinical Liaison Nurse
- ICU ACCESS Nurse
Our clinical
leadership team include ED & ICU Clinical Director & Deputy Directors,
Nurse Unit Managers, Director of Emergency Medical Training, Clinical Nurse
Educators and Clinical Nurse Consultants. Clinical operations are overseen by
an Operations Manager and overarching business and corporate operations are
overseen by a Director of Nursing and Medical Director as part of the Emergency
& Critical Care Division.
The Albury Emergency Department is a busy department which caters to approximately 40,000 presentations annually including adults and paediatric patients of all specialties. We are the regional trauma centre for the NSW Catchment and Northeast Victoria and provide care and service to orthopaedic and ENT specialities.
In April 2024, the Albury completed and opened phase 1 of a major redevelopment which has seen a state-of-the-art expansion of service for the ED. At completion of Phase 2 in late 2024, the Albury ED will be comprised of 58 treatment spaces which will be supported by a contemporary model of care.
- 3 dedicated sub-waiting rooms
- 4 bed paediatric zone (with additional flex capacity)
- 1 consult room for ENT/Ophthalmology
- 1 consult room for gynaecology
- 2 procedure rooms (including 1 for paediatrics)
- Future x-ray and CT scanning capacity delivered as ‘cold shell’
- 3 ambulance bays, 4 ambulance parking and dedicated Police vehicle parking
- Behavioural assessment room
- 2 behavioural assessment consultation rooms, including secure outdoor area.
- Private family interview room
The Wodonga Emergency Department sees approximately 26,000 patients annually including adult and paediatric presentations across all specialities. Wodonga ED is the primary referral ED for Obstetric and Gynaecological presentations for the local area and provides the Medical Emergency response to the Wodonga Campus
The Wodonga ED is comprised of:
The ICU model of care encompasses Intensive Care, High Dependency and Coronary Care patient cohorts (inclusive of paediatric patients).
Our Unit provides care to approximately 700 critically ill patients annually and is available to support other health services as available through REACH and adult retrieval. The critical care service provides support to all inpatient units on each of the acute campuses with a comprehensive Clinical Liaison Service, Donate Life program and management of the remote cardiac monitoring service for the acute campuses.
You may be
admitted to the ICU from multiple different areas. For example, from the
Emergency Department or Operating Theatre, from another ward, or even from
another hospital.
When you are
well enough to require less intensive monitoring and management, you will be
transferred to a ward.
We know that
for some, leaving ICU can cause some anxiety, our team of Critical Care
Clinical Liaison and Access Nurses will support a smooth transition to the ward
environment and follow up with you regularly during this transition.
Located
on the Wodonga Campus, the Close Observation Unit (COU) is a 6 bed ward, with a
flexible and adaptable model of care including High acuity admission, short
stay admission with expected hospital length of stay of less than 24hrs, or
flow admission with an expected hospital length of stay of 24-48 hrs. All 6 bed
spaces have central cardiac monitoring and COU also houses and manages 4
telemetry (remote cardiac monitoring) units used across the Wodonga
Campus.