Ipswich Hospital
Acute Geriatric Services
OPERA unit
Direct admission of older patients presenting with geriatric syndromes (cat 3 triage)-screened by GEDI team
Name of consultant geriatric medicine staff per service:
- Dr Champa Ranasinghe
- Dr Stella Lin
Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:
Dr Alison Cutler
Ph: 3810 1111
Acute Care of the Elderly Unit (Ward 7c)
Admits older patients with geriatric syndromes and complex MDT requirements.
Name of consultant geriatric medicine staff per service:
- OPERA operates in 7c but patients stay under other medical teams as well.
- Dr Champa Ranasinghe
- Dr Stella Lin
Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:
Dr Alison Cutler
Orthogeriatric Service
Consultative model for older patients presenting with NOF Staffed by 0.6 consultant, dedicated NOF nurse,0.5 registrar
Name of consultant geriatric medicine staff per service:
Dr Maureen Runganga
Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:
Dr Alison Cutler
Other (please specify)
- Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention-GEDI
- Staffed by Geriatrician, CNC, CN and Physio1.0
- Screen ED presentations for older people with geriatric syndromes and help to coordinate their discharge /hospital journey
- HITH: Hospital in the home
- Staffed by a Geriatrician, nursing staff with more expertise in geriatric medicine
- Admits patients directly from GP / ED other medical units
- Outreach to RACF
- Geriatrician Lead
Name of consultant geriatric medicine staff per service
- Dr Claudia Wong
- Dr Valerie Lim - HITH
Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:
Dr Alison Cutler
Geriatric Evaluation & Management Unit (GEM)
- GEMs model is embedded under OPERA service
- Patients requiring functional optimisation are consulted and taken over
- Patients initially admitted under OPERA acutely will move onto GEM model for more functional optimisation in the same ward
Name of consultant geriatric medicine staff per service:
- Dr Champa Ranasinghe
- Dr Stella Lin
Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:
Dr Alison Cutler
General Rehabilitation Unit
- Dedicated geriatric rehabilitation not available
- General rehabilitation ward available where appropriate older patients are admitted for functional recovery
- Lead by Rehabilitation specialists.
Rehabilitation Day Hospital
CBRT –by Rehab team
Name of consultant geriatric medicine staff per service:
Dr Rois -Gnecco
Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:
Dr Rois -Gnecco
Geriatric Medicine Clinics (please specify if general, falls, memory/cognition, continence, other)
- 3 General Geriatric clinics
- 1 Memory Clinic
- 1 Continence clinic
- 1 Geriatric home visit clinic
Name of consultant geriatric medicine staff per service:
General Geriatric clinics-
- Dr Champa Ranasinghe
- Dr Stella Lin
- Dr Alison Cutler
Memory: Dr Maureen Runganga
Home visit: Dr Valerie Lim
Continence: Dr Champa Ranasinghe
Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:
Dr Alison Cutler
Dr Manoj George (Lead Clinician/Consultant Psychogeriatrician)
Service components
- Psychogeriatric Outpatient Clinic (Ipswich Health Plaza)
- Older Person Rural outreach service
- Residential Aged Care Facility Clinics
- In-patient (Ipswich Hospital OPMHU)
- Psychogeriatric Neurocognitive Assessment Clinic
Inpatient
Older Persons Mental Health Unit (OPMHU) Ipswich Hospital: 16 bedded unit
- Dr Manoj George
- Dr Stuart Robinson
Psychogeriatric Out Patient Clinic
- Dr Manoj George
- Dr Patricia Rumbach
- Dr Sodabeh Abazari
- Dr Stuart Robinson
Residential Aged Care Facility Clinics
Dr Manoj George
Name of consultant geriatric medicine staff per service:
Dr Manoj George
Staff Specialist Psychogeriatrician & Clinical Lead for Older Persons Mental Health Service
Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:
Older Persons Mental Health Unit | Ipswich Hospital | Mental Health & Specialised Services
Ph: 07 3810 1515
Fax: 07 3810 1549
Telehealth
Older patients requiring telehealth assessments from ESK, Gatton, Boonah, Laidley are reviewed by GEDI team CEGA online assessment used
GEDI
- Dr Lu Chen
- Dr Luciana Kelly
HITH
Dr Valerie Lim
