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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research in the northeast of Melbourne. Austin Health is world-renowned for its research and specialist work in cancer, liver transplantation, spinal cord injuries, neurology, endocrinology, mental health and rehabilitation.
Austin Health comprises Austin Hospital, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital and the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre. During 2007-08, its 7162 staff treated 85,670 inpatients and a record 151,968 outpatients.
www.austin.org.au
RESPECTING PATIENT CHOICES
The Respecting Patient Choices (RPC) advance care planning program is based on the Respecting Choices® program first developed by Gunderson Lutheran Medical Foundation in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. RPC was introduced into Austin Health (Melbourne, Victoria) as a pilot program supported by the National Institute of Clinical Studies, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. The program has subsequently been extended to further areas within Austin Health, residential aged care facilities in both rural and metropolitan areas, Divisions of General Practice and several interstate health services. For more information please go to: www.respectingpatientchoices.org.au
