Hon Stephen Dawson asks about the status of patients waiting for mental health unit admission following a code yellow emergency. The Minister responds that no patients are currently waiting and lists the facilities where patients admitted since the code yellow are being cared for.

AnsweredQoN 1141Legislative Council
Asked
16 October 2014
Portfolio
Mental Health

QuestionView source ↗

MENTAL
HEALTH — CODE YELLOW
1141. Hon STEPHEN DAWSON to the
Minister for Mental Health:
I refer to the code
yellow emergency issued earlier this week and the 24 adults and two adolescents
who required admission to an authorised mental health unit at the time the code
yellow was activated.
(1) How many people are still waiting to be
admitted to an authorised mental health unit and where are they currently being
cared for?
(2) For those patients who have been admitted
to an authorised mental health unit since the code yellow, in which facilities
are they now being cared for?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the member
for some notice of the question.
(1) None.
(2) The facilities are Graylands Hospital;
Swan Valley Centre; Joondalup Health Campus; Bentley Adolescent Unit; Alma
Street Clinic, Fremantle; Mimidi Park inpatient unit, Rockingham Hospital; and
Bentley Mental Health Service.

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