Providing safe and cost effective primary, acute and aged care services to resident of the Portland district.
Portland District Health services the Glenelg Shire with major population centres being the city of Portland and the townships of Heywood, Narrawong, Tyrendarra and Nelson.
The population which we service is approximately 16,739.
Our vision is that Portland District Health will deliver excellence in health services through continually challenging ourselves to do better and creatively meeting the needs of the community by listening, living and working together.
Volunteers play a vital role within Portland District Health.
At present we have 186 registered volunteers with Portland District Health averaging a combined total of 846 hours per month through various programs that assist the patients, clients, residents and staff.
There are many areas that use volunteers to enhance their programs.
PDH donation to help eliminate avoidable blindness in Rwanda Monday, 25 January 2010
Story courtesy of Portland Observer, Wednesday January 20, 2010.
(photo by Tom Stanford)
A SLIT lamp used to diagnose a range
of eye disorders from Portland District
Health (PDH) has been donated to the
Fred Hollows Foundation.
The lamp has been earmarked to be sent
to Rwanda in Africa, which is home to 18
per cent of the world’s blind population.
A five-year-program called the Western
Province Blindness Prevention Program
is aimed to contribute towards eliminating avoidable blindness in the Rubavu District Province in Rwanda.
Linzi Donlan from PDH said it was
through the kind donation of a new slit
lamp by Portland Aluminium, that the
hospital was able to donate the secondhand lamp to the foundation.
“I saw it (the foundation) on TV and
contacted them and they were so pleased
to be receiving the lamp,” Mrs Donlan
said. The machine will be sent to Sydney
this week and the lamp will then be sent
overseas.
Quality of Care Report 2008 / 09 Portland District Health Annual Report 2009 PDH staff revue for 2009 PDH - Nurse Graduate Program The Well Updated: Tuesday, 20 October 2009
PDH donation to help eliminate avoidable blindness in Rwanda