services

The Hospital in the Home (HITH) program and Post-Acute Care Service is an early discharge or prevention of admission service that enables eligible hospital patients to be treated at home or in a clinic by experienced community nurses. Nurses are able to provide quality personalised nursing care according to each patient’s individual needs. It includes intravenous therapy, mainly antibiotics and anticoagulation for treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism. Medical governance is provided by MACS SS.

Campbelltown Ambulatory Care Unit

The Ambulatory Care Unit at Campbelltown operates from 8am-5.30pm Monday to Friday. The function of the Unit is to provide a venue for the following:

1. Procedures such as Ascetic taps, lumbar punctures, minor biopsies, Arterial blood gas collection, Trial of Voids, PEG tube changes, SPC and IDC changes etc.
2. ”Hot Clinics” for specialties eg Respiratory patients.
3. Review and follow up of patients by CNC such as wounds, Resp, Diabetes (initiation of Insulin Pump).
4. Infusions of an urgent nature that cannot be accommodated at the Camden Infusion Centre or whom require input from Teams based at Campbelltown Hospital.
5. Specialty requesting venue to review a patient eg, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Post-surgical reviews.
6. Working in partnership with Pathology for specimen collections such as Cross-matching of patients and Short Synacthen tests.
7. Staff are also responsible for assessing patients in ED and the Wards ( HITH co-ordinating) for inclusion on the HITH service, this requires liaison with medical and ward staff, completion of paperwork, patient assessment and interview, patients education and co-ordination of visit and review arrangements.
8. Some desensitising procedures under immunology.

Camden MACS Infusion Centre

The Centre’s primary function is to provide a venue for those patients requiring Infusion treatments on a regular or ad hoc basis. These include but are not limited to the administration of blood and blood products, steroids, monoclonal antibody therapies and hydration. Additionally the centre is a venue for the procedure of venesection of patients with Hemochromatosis and Polycythaemia.

Currently the Centre is operational from 8am – 8pm Monday to Friday.

Location

Campbelltown MACS  via entrance F, building D, level G
Camden Infusion centre, Camden hospital, level 1

Contact

Dr Weerasinghe   
Building A Level 2 
Campbelltown Hospital
Phone 463 43600 
Fax 463 43610
e-mail: swslhd-macs@health.nsw.gov.au