Our Voice winter 2022

“How could it not be”, says long-serving senior chef at Mercy Place Shepparton (South), Lisa Uytdehaag. “Our town is surrounded by dairy and beef farms, and wonderful orchards. The Goulburn Valley produces one of Australia’s great food bowls and has a reputation for excellent quality. “Some of our residents are farmers and have worked in...

The funding, announced in May in Victoria’s State Budget, comes five years after the WMH Stage 1 redevelopment, which included a state-of-the-art intensive care unit, new inpatient beds, new operating theatres and a 370-space multi-level carpark. With the population of the Wyndham corridor projected to increase by 102 per cent by 2036, WMH will be...

Amy joined Mercy Health in 2007 and has managed teams in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Special Care Nursery since 2019. Amy’s mother, her own sisters, her sister-in-law and some of her aunts and cousins have all had their babies at Mercy Health hospitals. “I can’t claim it as a fact but we...

“When I was in a bad way, seeing peer workers on the ward gave me hope and optimism. These were people who had been through what I was going through and they had come out the other side.” For three decades, Claire had worked in various roles in community health, aged care, disability — and...

It is one of many paintings that the Mercy Place Cairns (Bethlehem) resident has produced since she first began art classes at Coral Sea Gardens Retirement Village two years ago. “I had never held a paintbrush in my hand before then,” Pat says, then corrects herself: “Except when Peter and I were first married –...