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❓ I refer to the Karratha Health Campus, and I ask: (a) how many patients have been admitted to the general ward each month since the opening of the Karratha Health Campus; (b) how many patients have pr

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14 March 2019

Member

Hon Jacqui Boydell

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I refer to the Karratha Health Campus, and I ask: (a) how many patients have been admitted to the general ward each month since the opening of the Karratha Health Campus; (b) how many patients have presented at the Emergency Department on each month since the opening of the Karratha Health Campus; (c) of those patients in (b), what are the waiting times for ATS 1-5 patients; (d) how many patients have been admitted to the Short Stay unit at Karratha Health Campus since its opening; (e) what is the maximum number of main bays available to accommodate patients in the Emergency Department at any one time; (f) how many patients have been admitted to the General Ward from the Emergency Department since the opening of the Karratha Health Campus; (g) how many of those patients admitted to the General Ward in (f), were discharged within 24 hours of the admission; (h) how many instances of “bed blocking”, where all Emergency Department and General Ward beds are occupied have occurred; (i) if any instances occurred in (h), where are patients who are waiting to be admitted placed; and (j) on how many occasions has a patient been delayed admission to the hospital due to a lack of beds on the ward?

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Answered

11 April 2019

Responded by

Parliamentary Secretary representing the Minister for Health

Response time

9 days

I am advised:
(a) Admissions to Karratha Health Campus (KHC) by month since opening September 2018:
Month
Number of Admissions
September 2018
125
October 2018
266
November 2018
304
December 2018
320
January 2019
319
February 2019
312
TOTAL
1,646
(b) Presentations to the KHC Emergency Department by month since opening September 2018:
Month
Number of Presentations
September 2018
618
October 2018
1,594
November 2018
1,626
December 2018
1,718
January 2019
1,807
February 2019
1,590
TOTAL
8,953
(c) Target wait times by Australasian Triage Scale (ATS) category are:
ATS 1 = immediate
ATS 2 = 10 minutes
ATS 3 = 30 minutes
ATS 4 = 60 minutes
ATS 5 = 120 minutes
Of the patients identified in question (b), 80% (7,147) are recorded as being seen within the triage target timeframe, 14% (1,266) were recorded as being seen outside the triage target timeframe, and 6% (540) records were classified as “excluded”, likely due to data integrity issues.
(d) 11.
(e) 16.
(f) 806.
(g) 452.
(h) Nil occasions.
(i) Not applicable.
(j) Nil occasions.

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