RDNS wins award for excellence
Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) has been announced as a winner in the 2013 LASA Victoria Awards for Excellence. The award was presented at a special LASA Victoria State Congress function last week.
Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) has been announced as a winner in the 2013 LASA Victoria Awards for Excellence.
The award was presented at a special LASA Victoria State Congress function last week.
RNDS chief executive, Adjunct Professor Stephen Muggleton, said he was delighted with the win.
“This award recognises the enormously impressive work being performed across RDNS in so many areas – especially the initiatives and commitments which sustain our reputation as a great place to work,” Professor Muggleton said.
Professor Muggleton said the LASA award was also an endorsement of the success of RDNS’s home nursing telehealth developments which have recently been boosted by a $3.3 million federal government grant to pilot new methods of healthcare delivery using the National Broadband Network.
LASA said the award recognised RDNS as a leader in the provision of community based nursing and home care services, “pioneering innovative practices such as a hand held, field based real-time client management system that ensures staff have access to up to the minute client data”.
“RDNS has a long history of pursuing innovation and change for the benefit of its many thousands of clients.”
LASA Victoria deputy chief executive, Frances Mirabelli, said the awards recognised excellence across all fields of the aged care industry and celebrated significant contributions to the quality of life of older people.
“The Victorian aged care industry is renowned for its dedication to ensuring our older people receive the best possible quality care, when and where they need it,” she said.
“It is the providers of aged and community care services, employees and volunteers whose commitment to the care of our older people makes the Victorian aged care industry so outstanding.”
Now in its fifth year, the awards attracted a high number of nominations which Ms Mirabelli says shows the depth of talent within the industry.
