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6 December 2022 – Leading prosthetics provider MCOP International (MCOPi) and Steward Health Care Malta (SHCM), with the support of the Ministry for Health, will assist as many as 24 amputees and victims of the conflict in Ukraine by providing prosthetics in St. Luke’s Hospital over the coming 12 months, as part of “Operation Renew Prosthetics”. An estimated 3,000 Ukrainians have lost a limb due t...
7 November 2022 – Throughout October, which was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Steward Health Care Malta (SHCM) organised a series of activities at Gozo General Hospital (GGH) as part of Pink October, during which healthcare workers and the public could obtain correct information on breast care and learn about what support is available to women diagnosed with breast cancer. A seminar organised for...
19 October 2022 – Steward Health Care Malta (SHCM) has purchased a brand-new Echo Cardiac Ultrasound to be used at Gozo General Hospital (GGH) for procedures of echocardiography, including pharmacological stress echocardiography for adult patients. The new echo machine at GGH will also provide 3D imaging on both transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography, as well as contrast studies and s...
September 16, 2022
Patient Safety Day Q&A
The importance of safety in healthcare medication On the occasion of Patient Safety Day, we sat down with our Quality and Patient Safety Managers Victor Grixti and Lawrence Mizzi, from Karin Grech Hospital and Gozo General Hospital, to discuss the importance of safe medication practices and how the World Health Organisation (WHO) is raising further awareness on medication-related harm. Victor Gri...
16 September 2022 - Steward Health Care Malta hosted the tenth edition of the Worker of the Year Award for Gozo General Hospital (GGH) employees on Thursday 15 September 2022, following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Charmaine Cini, Charge Nurse at the General Critical Care Unit, was awarded Worker of the Year, whilst the Tissue Viability team was given the Team of the Year award...
Gozo - Malta, 30 August 2022: The Human Resources and Psychology Departments at Karin Grech Hospital and Gozo General Hospital, which are both run by Steward Health Care Malta, have recently collaborated to organize two separate seminars for nurses to further strengthen the partnership between nurses and the Practice Nurse Team in policy development. The seminar at Karin Grech Hospital, which was...
Five-year implementation process partly delivered by in-house trainers Steward continues to make long-term, world class investments in Malta Malta, 25 July 2022: Steward Health Care Malta has engaged one of the most trusted leadership training companies in the world, FranklinCovey, to deliver its leadership and personal effectiveness development programme in a phased process that will involve ever...
Gozo - Malta, 11 July 2022: Steward Health Care Malta is proud to have played an important role towards the achievements of 19 graduates who were recently conferred their degree in Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) during the first ever graduation ceremony held for students attending the Queen Mary University of London’s (QMUL) Malta Campus. The ceremony took place at the historic...
25th May 2022 - Steward Health Care Malta (SHCM) carried out two separate initiatives in May to mark Stroke Awareness Month and to continue to raise awareness on the prevention and treatment of strokes. A team of healthcare professionals from Gozo General Hospital (GGH), coordinated by Frank Xerri, Executive Allied Health Practitioner (Physiotherapy), toured seven primary schools around Gozo to g...
23 May 2022 – Steward Health Care Malta is surprised by the Health Minister’s statements in the Maltese Parliament supporting the current contractual terms of the hospitals concession, which have been widely acknowledged by independent observers – both within Malta and in the European Union – to be wholly unsuitable and inappropriate. In fact, two different administrations with the same Health Min...
20 May 2022 – Emergency department staff of Gozo General Hospital (GGH) recently had the opportunity to reach out to the community of Għarb and raise awareness on the importance of timely intervention and communication in cases of emergencies. GGH, which is run by Steward Health Care Malta, joined other entities like the Armed Forces of Malta, the Malta Police Force, LESA and the Civil Protection ...
The Gozo General Hospital (GGH) Emergency Department and the air ambulance service that links Gozo with Malta were featured in a news story broadcast on Malta’s national station, TVM on 10 May 2022. The news crew spent a day with our teams in Gozo and followed a simulation exercise on the whole procedure, from the time the decision is taken to transfer a patient from GGH to Mater Dei Hospital in ...
15 February 2022 - Steward Health Care Malta (SHCM) has introduced a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system at the highly-specialised Orthotics and Prosthetics Unit (OPU) at St. Luke’s Hospital. The new digital solution provides patient-centric relationship management, which covers the whole patient journey, through a complete view of the patient’s real-time data. More than 15,000 patie...
Malta Today misleads the public with its reporting on an MOU that was never signed nor executed. Steward Health Care International will defend its actions, standing up for patient safety and protecting the public’s confidence in Malta’s health care system. 01 February 2022: Steward Health Care International (SHCI), the parent company of Steward Health Care Malta (SHCM), has long stayed quiet in t...
6 January 2022: Steward Health Care Malta (SHCM) has increased its COVID-19 testing capacity in the laboratory of Gozo General Hospital (GGH), through the introduction of a second rapid PCR analyser. The introduction of extra rapid testing capacity enables admitted patients in Gozo to be screened for COVID-19 more quickly, ensuring a faster turnaround and efficient and safer bed management. The ne...
October 29, 2021
Steward Health Care Malta marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month
29 October 2021 – Steward Health Care Malta marked Breast Cancer Awareness Month in its hospitals in Gozo and Malta throughout the month of October, known also as Pink October. According to the Action for Breast Cancer Foundation Malta, breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women but it can also affect men. In Malta, 343 adults are diagnosed with cancer a year. While the causes are no...
26th May 2021 – The Gozo General Hospital, operated by Steward Health Care Malta, has officially launched the first genitourinary medicine clinic, better known as GU clinic, in Gozo. The clinic will operate on Friday afternoons on a fortnightly basis and offers a number of services aimed at the prevention as well as the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infections (commonly referred ...
May 14, 2021
May is Stroke Awareness Month!
"Having a stroke is easy, there's nothing you need to do, lay back and enjoy it, as much as you can. I was mildly amused when my legs wouldn't obey me. Less so when those same legs couldn't even keep me upright! So it was that my flatmate found me on the floor, and I was on my way to hospital, where I had what I believe to be my third and most severe stroke. And, if you're going to have a bad one...
March 30, 2021
Physiotherapy department at Karin Grech Hospital refurbished
29th March 2021 – Steward Health Care Malta has completed another investment in its hospitals with the refurbishment of the physiotherapy department at Karin Grech Hospital. This follows the recent announcement of the extensive upgrade project of the emergency and outpatients departments at Gozo General Hospital. The physiotherapy department sees people of different ages and medical conditions. Ev...
March 15, 2021
Celebrating Social Work Day
“Social Work is the art of listening and the science of hope”. - Unknown Having the patients’ interests at heart is the social worker’s topmost priority. Generally, the valid work of social workers goes unnoticed when compared to other professions. Working with patients on one-to-one basis is crucial, especially when it comes to incorporating the social model into the medical sector. From the mome...
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