Business View Australia

32 Business View Australia - April 2015

insomnia and sleep apnea. The clinic has 6 beds

in soundproofed rooms and utilizes sleep diaries,

actigraphy and respiratory function testing among

other methodologies to diagnose this insidious

disease so that corrective treatment can be initi-

ated.

At Mount Hospital all our activities are conduct-

ed with a single objective in mind – to restore

the health of our patients in a safe and compas-

sionate manner. Towards this end one of the

initiatives that we have concentrated on is the

implementation of a number of infection control

practices. Many patients have a lower resistance

level to infections than a healthy person. They are

specially susceptible to clostridium difficile, an

infection of the bowel that causes diarrhoea and

staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia, a serious

infection caused when this bacteria enters the

blood stream. As a result of the hospital’s efforts

to implement best practices for the reduction of