Home Care , Lab Tests, X-rays, Doctors AT HOME
24 hours a day
Ambulatory Care Australia formerly known as The Victorian Centre for Ambulatory Care Innovation (VCACI) was established in 1997, through a grant from the Acute Health Division of the Victorian Department of Human Services. In July 2002 the name was changed to Ambulatory Care Australia (ACA). The mission of ACA is:
To support Australian health care providers as regional & international health industry leaders in the development, trialing and evaluation of ambulatory care initiatives involving the convergence of healthcare, technologies and communications.
Home based acute care is a rapidly growing area of health care delivery in Australia. There is a need to establish a local knowledge basis and understanding of ambulatory care in Australia to inform changing clinical practice.
The activities of ACA are underpinned by the belief that people are the major healthcare resource and as such they require support and education in health promotion and illness prevention.
ACA acts on the belief that people have a right to access models of care which are patient centred, and to be able to make informed choices about their health management and retain responsibility for their health status.
The shifting focus of health care delivery from hospitals to the community has established a need for the development of expertise and greater understanding in the area of ambulatory care.
ACA currently focuses on Hospital in the Home services and aims at providing a research and evaluation framework for home based acute care.
Dr.
Elias Papazissis with the Associate Professor Lexie Sphere, Executive
Director of ACA and the Associate Professor Nick Santamaria (right), Principal
Research Scientist of The Alfred Hospital, September 2004.
Dr.
Elias Papazissis was invited as a keynote speaker in ACA
annual conference 2004.
ACA
Conference 2004