The Health Specialist Centre has signed an agreement with Cigna Insurance to provide and claim care for their patients. Cigna Insurance is a well-known international medical insurance company.
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Medical Doctor Needed
We are looking for a medical officer (doctor) who is committed to quality care and service. He or she should preferably have a special clinical interest or skill in a special area of medical practice. A package is negotiable and the support of a full time nurse is a given. Full or part time considered. Must be registrable in Samoa. Subsidised rental accommodation is offered to the right candidate. Call us on 28303 or email reception@healthspecialistcentre.com.
Laboratory
We were keen to open our laboratory since December 2019. We had three machines delivered the month before. However, some key consumables were not received from France. So we waited. And then the COVID-19 restrictions hit in March. Borders closed and flights were from Auckland only once a fortnight and then once a week.
We are now sourcing our consumables from Australia as of July 2020 and hopefully we can start HPV cervical screening before the end of the year. Haematology and biochemistry will be finally done and awaiting the delivery of other machines and consumables.
Top Women’s Health Sonographer Visits the Health Specialist Centre
The HSC is pleased to advise the sponsored visit of a top sonographer next week (20th-26th of August). Wendy Miller is an accredited sonographer from Ascot Radiology in Auckland and the Manager of the Quantum Health Group. She has been scanning for 25 years in New Zealand and Australia.
She specialises in Women’s Health, obstetrics and gynaecology, breasts and small parts.
As an applications specialist for Samsung Medison she has optimised ultrasound equipment and train sonographers and radiologists. She has taught emergency department doctors and family doctors on ultrasound physics and machine functionality.
Wendy lives with her two daughters in Auckland.
While at the HSC, Wendy will:
- Fine tune the 4D ultrasound machine at the HSC to the clinician’s needs
- Teach clinicians how to use the ultrasound machine
- Perform ultrasound scans on patients booked specifically for her visit
- Spend a day at the National Health Service teaching the staff there as part of our service
- Be a resource person at the AIMS conference on the 24-25 August
For bookings to be scanned by Wendy, please call the HSC reception on 28303. Further information can be obtained from the GM, teuila.mcd@-pati@healthspecialistcentre.org
Dr Nua Tupai sponsored to review general practice systems and processes
The Health Specialist Centre sponsored Dr Alainuanua Tupai for a week in June 2018 to scope the general practice service at the HSC.
Dr Tupai is a well known Samoan family doctor from Auckland and is a principal at Baderdrive Health Service.
Dr Tupai observed the need for such a service in Samoa. “There were people that just refused to go the hospital for one reason or another so a service like this is very much needed.”
In her talk to the clinical providers at the HSC, she emphasised the need for a patient-centred service. “A patient central to the service means we have to make sure other services are wrapped around the care to make sure the patient is not going back to the same cause of their ill-health”.