Ann: Alcidion and Calvary Health Care Collaboration, page-31

This is a fantastic news.

Just looking into Calvary health care, there is lots to be excited about

https://www.calvarycare.org.au/

“Founded in 1885 by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary, Calvary is a charitable, not-for-profit, Catholic health care organisation.
Our mission is to provide quality, compassionate health care to the most vulnerable, including those reaching the end of their life.
We're responsible for over 12,000 staff and volunteers, 15 Public and Private Hospitals, 15 Retirement and Aged Care Facilities and a national network of Community Care Centres”

This is not a small health group but a national organisation

“Calvary Health Care Kogarah public hospital in Sydney provides Specialist Palliative Care Services and Rehabilitation Services to the local St George and Sutherland Shire regions and extensive Community Health Services to the St George region. We sit within the Local Health District as an affiliated organisation.”

They are an affiliated organisation to the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District which is one of NSWs largests LHDs. Where one of the largest sub-acute hospitals in NSW serving approximately 12,500 patients per year resides in Kogarah.

Taking a look at the stratigic plan 2016-2020. technology is a key focus

https://www.calvarycare.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Calvary-strategic-plan-2016-2020.pdf

Executive summary
Over the past five years Calvary has been on a journey of recovery and foundation building. I am pleased to say we are now in a strong position and looking at a brighter future. That’s come about thanks to great people, a lot of hard work and good leadership. It means we can invest in upgrading facilities and services to deliver on our Mission of providing the best possible care for our patients/residents/clients. Calvary now has sufficient scale and operates in multiple health sectors which puts us in a prime position to help transform the care industry.
That said, health care in Australia faces challenges and uncertainty due to our ageing population and the introduction of inevitable reforms. As an organisation, we need to be ready to take up opportunities by being aware, flexible, and willing to explore different paths. Moreover, at Calvary we see that any sustainable model of integrated care needs the ability to capture and, more importantly, share information across all facets of the continuum of care.
Technology holds the greatest potential for increased productivity and improved safety and the availability of cost effective, affordable technology and its integration into care is crucial in facilitating connected, coordinated and ultimately integrated care of high quality.
In 2016-2020 Calvary will invest in technology to assist in building a high reliability culture that puts the person at the centre, it will leverage the unique service offering that Calvary has, bringing together public, private and voluntary providers in the segments (acute hospitals, retirement, aged care and home based care) that make up a health network in a community. Precisely because people are at the centre of all that Calvary does, we will actively engage in a much deeper way with other participants in the pursuit of achieving improved care, through better coordination of services.
We envisage that the beneficiaries of this improved care will be the increasing numbers of older people with multiple chronic diseases, and those at end of life.
We believe this plan is consistent with the spirit shown by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary. The Sisters who founded the Australian ministry adapted to change and took on new challenges as they arose.
John Watkins Chairman Little Company of Mary Health Care Limited

Message from the chair

“We are a growing organisation. Significantly, we have commenced building a new 94 bed Private Hospital in the ACT, a new aged care facility in Muswellbrook, NSW and entered into an agreement to build a new 342 bed private hospital in Adelaide. We have opened the Mary Potter Palliative Care and St Joseph’s Rehabilitation Units at Calvary Riverina Hospital, expanded the St Luke’s Mental Health Unit in Launceston, commenced construction of new operating Theatres at Calvary Lenah Valley in Hobart and developed a hospital-to-home program in South Australia.”

They are a mature company that are expanding with many new capital sites and seem to have a bright future, seems like you can’t get better partners than this.

Very exciting times ahead if we providing a Data Lake, enabling Calvary to consolidate data from various Clinical and Non-Clinical IT systems with the Miya platform on top!

Go ALC!