{"id":1223,"date":"2011-11-18T01:02:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:57:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:57:05","slug":"rch-eating-disorder-program-takes-first-prize-at-healthcare-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/rch-eating-disorder-program-takes-first-prize-at-healthcare-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"RCH Eating Disorder Program takes first prize at healthcare awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1224\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2011\/11\/18\/rch-eating-disorder-program-takes-first-prize-at-healthcare-awards\/eating-disorder-program\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1224\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1224\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/11\/Eating-Disorder-Program-290x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister Wooldridge with the RCH Eating Disorder Program team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) has won a top Victorian public healthcare award for its specialist Eating Disorder Program.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Mental Health Mary Wooldridge Wednesday night presented the service with a Minister\u2019s Award for outstanding achievement in mental healthcare at the 2011 Victorian Public Healthcare Awards inMelbourne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Victorian Public Healthcare Awards \u2013 now in their seventh year \u2013 profile innovative, informed and effective healthcare leadership across the Victorian public health system,\u201d Ms Wooldridge said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe passion, talent and dedication of the Victorian health workforce is highlighted by the individuals and organisations that have been selected for these awards.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister\u2019s Award for outstanding achievement by an individual or team recognises outstanding staff success or action above and beyond the call of duty.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Wooldridge said The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital specialist Eating Disorder Program provided clinical care for all adolescents under 19 with eating disorders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe program implemented a Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for eating disorders which is a parent-focused outpatient treatment that is a more clinically effective and cost effective model than expensive inpatient or day hospital programs,\u201d Ms Wooldridge said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing the highest level of evidence to support its implementation of any current therapy, the model strives to restore weight and return the adolescent to a normal developmental trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is compelling that 98 per cent of adolescents whose family completes a course of FBT are weight restored by the end of six months of treatment,\u201d Ms Wooldridge said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) has won a top Victorian public healthcare award for its specialist Eating Disorder Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}