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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...
29 January 2021 – Steward Health Care Malta has completed an extensive upgrade project of the emergency and outpatients departments at the Gozo General Hospital, as part of its ongoing investment programme in its hospitals. Despite the significant challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the management of Steward Malta embarked on an ambitious refurbishment of these two departments which see tho...
November 13, 2020
World Diabetes Day
1. Could you give us a brief overview about yourself and your occupation? My name is Rachel Portelli and although my journey so far had its highs and lows, literally, I never let this chronic illness get in the way of my goals and dreams. I graduated from a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Social Policy and following that I was accepted to do an internship at the International Diabetes Federation – Euro...
November 6, 2020
World Radiography Day
by Albert Agius Senior Allied Health Practitioner Radiography Health-Gozo General Hospital World Radiography Day is celebrated on 8th November every year to commemorate the discovery of X-Radiation discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895. On this day, Radiographers promote Radiography as a vital contribution to modern healthcare and to increase public awareness of the two branches of Radiography:...
October 29, 2020
World stroke awareness day: sharing experiences and advice
BY GABRIELLE RANSLEY, SLP, ON BEHALF OF RHKG STROKE UNIT, RW8 – KARIN GRECH HOSPITAL “….as I lie down in bed staring up at the bright light, I see two strangers with a concerned look peering at me. They are mumbling something but I cannot make much sense of what they are saying. Too many words at the same time! Too fast! I ask them to turn off the light. Why aren’t they listening to me? Why are th...
Local hospitals benefitting from Steward’s international supply chain 09 October 2020 – Steward Health Care Malta has continued its investment programme in its hospitals in Gozo and Malta and has recently upgraded its medical gases infrastructure in Gozo General Hospital (GGH). This includes replacement of the main vacuum plant as well as a new distribution system and plant to provide the hospita...
September 25, 2020
World Physiotherapy Day 2020
This year Steward Health Care Malta marked World Physiotherapy Day with a series of initiatives which were focussed on the practice of the profession within the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Physiotherapy is a profession that enables and empowers the person to achieve a healthier life through movement and physical means. It places an emphasis on analysis of movement based on the struc...
Healthcare company pandemic-related investment totals Eur6m in 2020 20 July 2020: As Steward Health Care Malta continues to monitor the national and global COVID-19 developments, the health care company has increased the number of ventilators in the Gozo General Hospital from the previous 15 to an unprecedented 25 units. Steward Malta has sourced its high-end ventilators from General Electric and...
29 July 2020: Steward Health Care’s headquarters in the United States has donated 100,000 disposable face masks to be used in the Gozitan and Maltese community, especially by vulnerable people, so as to help in the prevention of the spread of COVID-19. The masks were donated during an event held at Steward Health Care Malta’s offices which was presided by Dr Nadine Delicata, Executive Director an...
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