April project update

Written By Cristy Houghton

Our team has also been busy working toward a number of important steps, including:

  • Living Well Clinical Advisory Group – This group is now established and meeting monthly. At this months’ meeting, the group will review outcome measures for Living Well initiatives and discussed the Chronic Heart Failure Pathway in more detail.

  • Costings – As part of the Collaborative Commissioning Joint Development Process, a sustainability analysis was undertaken to determine when the model would become “self-sustaining” from a financial point of view. According to the analysis, self-sustainability will be achieved when the benefits of the model (in terms of avoiding hospital admissions/ED presentations) outweigh the costs of implementation.

  • Respiratory and Heart Failure submissions – Two submissions are currently with the Patient Centred Co-Commissioning Group (PCCG) awaiting endorsement:

    • Griffith Respiratory and Heart Failure Support Service which includes: a nurse specialist; public multidisciplinary outpatient clinic; and pulmonary and heart failure rehabilitation programs

    • MLHD Respiratory and Heart Failure Clinical Service Model of Care, including a Murrumbidgee-wide Pulmonary and Heart Failure Rehabilitation Model.

Cristy Houghton

Cristy's unique career has taken her from country NSW to the city lights of Clarendon Street South Melbourne and back again. With an early career in radio as a copywriter and creative strategist, she is now a Jill of all trades as a graphic designer, website builder, blog writer, video editor, social media manager, marketing strategist and more. 

In fact, give her any task and this chick will figure out how to do it! Go on, we dare you!

No, really, we DARE you!!

Cristy has won two Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAs) for Best Ad and Best Sales Promotion, and even has an 'Employee of the Year' certificate with her name on it.

Cristy and her husband James have traveled extensively through Russia, China and South East Asia, and have two fur-babies, Sooty (cat) and Panda (puppy). Cristy loves drinking coffee, meeting people to drink coffee, coffee tasting and coffee flavoured cocktails. She also enjoys road trips, TED Talks and watching cat videos on youtube.

http://www.embarketing.com.au
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