Video Transcript
Carissa - Hi, I'm Carissa, and we're here at Baillie Henderson Hospital today, which is the new home of one of our important community services. I'm joined by Lauren Gill, who is the nurse unit manager at Kobi Place. Lauren, thanks for joining us. Can you tell us a bit about what you and your team do here at Kobi Place?
Lauren - Hi, Carissa So I don't think that there's another service as unique as ours that offers all of the services that we do under one roof. The services that we provide include sexual health and blood borne virus testing and management, refugee health for newly arrived refugees to have their initial health assessment, tuberculosis screening and catch up vaccinations, immunizations for First Nations children, pregnant women and people with special medical conditions. Tuberculosis control, occupational exposure for staff, including needle stick injury management and the staff annual flu immunization program, sexual assault service, including forensic examinations and sexual assault counseling and the Queensland Needle Syringe program.
Carissa -It sounds like you do a lot here, and as I said, the service recently moved from Toowoomba Hospital, where it was known as Kobi House to Baillie Henderson, where it's now known as Kobi Place. What does that move mean for people who are accessing the service?
Lauren - It means better parking for starters. We understand that in the new location for some people will be easier to get to us, but for others it will be a little bit further to travel. We want everyone to know that we're offering the same services just at a new location and it's really lovely. So we hope people enjoy it as much as we do.
Carissa -Absolutely, it is a wonderful new facility and on a personal note, can you tell us a bit about how long you've worked here and why you're so passionate in your role?
Lauren - I've worked in the nurse unit manager role now for five years. I really enjoy the diversity of the services we provide and no two days are ever the same.
Carissa -Absolutely. And the team has certainly put in a huge effort recently with the move, how proud are you of them?
Lauren - I'm incredibly proud to work with a team of people who are highly talented, really motivated, and show the Darling Downs Health values on a daily basis, working with clients who are often not showing compassion and respect in other areas of their lives. The move was a really big job and we've had to adapt to quite a few new processes, but the team have done that really well and I'm very proud of them.
Carissa -Yeah, well done to them and we'll also pop the website and phone number for Kobi Place in the description of this video and if you have any other topics or questions that you would like covered, be sure to let us know on our feedback form and we'll see you soon.
Kobi Place information
Kobi Place is located in Browne House at Baillie Henderson Hospital.
You can call our team on 07 4699 7000.
Available services include: