Congratulations to Dr Gerben Keijzers for being named Gold Coast Health Researcher of the Year for 2023 .

Dr Keijzers was one of seven Research and Transformation Awards winners announced late last year as part of the Research, Innovation and Transformation Showcase.

The construction of the $72 million Sub-Acute Building at the Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) has reached a major milestone with the "topping out" of the structure.

Dr Atta Behfar is a Cardiologist from the renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and we’re thrilled that he is bringing his expertise to NoVa 2024.

Dr Behfar joins an impressive lineup of international speakers whose specialist expertise will leave our conference attendees with a wealth of knowledge and useful applications for cardiac care solutions.

A nine-person board experienced in health, business, education, and law has been appointed to govern the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service (HHS), including new Chair, Professor Cindy Shannon AM.

The new Robina Hospital Transfer Unit was greeted with smiles all round, among patients and Gold Coast Health staff alike, when it opened to the public on Wednesday 3 April.

The Transfer Unit represents the final plank of the $16.5 million Robina Emergency Department Expansion project, providing a specialised space to streamline patient flow.

Maud Achard (pictured) is a Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician who works as a Dietitian in the Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit at GCUH and in a neurodivergent-led private clinic for neurodivergent persons.

As an Autistic person herself, Maud brings a unique perspective to supporting neurodivergent people with feeding differences and eating disorders. For Maud personally, art has provided a platform for to share what it can feel like to experience the world differently.

Two Gold Coast Health initiatives are in the running to receive an award at this Year's Premier Awards for Excellence after being announced as finalists in the  Better health and wellbeing Services category. The Awards recognise high performance and outstanding achievement across the Queensland public sector.

Finalist 1: Day Case Hysterectomy

The Coomera Hospital continues to advance, with the site now cleared, retaining walls being built and earthworks underway to level the site.

Schematic design is nearing completion and will transition into the detailed design phase in the coming months. 

For the uninitiated, schematic design is a draft construction concept that offers an overview of a project's basic features and construction cost estimates. Detailed design develops the approved conceptual design into a precise physical plan of all parts of the structure and how they fit together.  

Tugun Satellite Hospital – co-named Banyahrmabah, meaning “a place to be made healthy” – has paved the way for the future of medication administration with the introduction of Automated Dispensing Cabinets (ADCs).

The ADCs are locked computer-controlled machines that store, dispense, and track medication, simplifying and de-risking the medication dispensing process.

An unfortunate fall at school led six-year-old Lyla to become the first patient to receive treatment at the new Robina ED Expansion’s plaster room.