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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...
Steward Health Care Malta continues to strengthen its ITU bed facilities by the addition of 10 full- capability GE ventilators as part of their COVID-19 preparedness at Gozo General Hospital (GGH). Despite extreme shortages for ventilators internationally, Steward was able to procure 10 additional ventilators from GE in a short time, which are now ready to use at GGH. This was made possible throu...
A helpline has been launched to provide additional support to patients attending Karin Grech Hospital’s Physiotherapy Outpatients Department located within St Luke’s Hospital grounds. All those patients who cannot attend their appointment because of COVID-19 restrictions, or who have any other concern in relation to their physiotherapy progress, are encouraged to contact the new Helpline on 220813...
April 17, 2020
Steward Malta relocates Sant’Anna Residents and Staff
As already announced in its COVID-19 contingency plan, Steward Health Care Malta has today completed the move of 72 elderly residents together with staff from Residenza Sant’Anna at Gozo General Hospital to the Downtown Hotel also located in Victoria. The hotel was made available three weeks ago through cooperation with the Ministry for Gozo so as to free up space in the Gozo Hospital to cater fo...
Following temporary closure of educational institutions across Europe, the Barts and the London Medical School located in the grounds of Gozo General Hospital is being put to good use in supporting the Gozo community in the fight against COVID-19. Steward Malta and Queen Mary University London have agreed for the School of Medicine and Dentistry Campus to support the Gozo Hospital by providing add...
Steward Health Care Malta yesterday submitted its application to redevelop the St Luke’s Hospital Campus to the relevant Planning Authority and it has continued to make progress at Gozo General Hospital marked by the response letter sent to the Planning Authority in what is being considered as yet another major milestone for this project. This has been possible through an intensive effort to invo...
Steward Health Care Malta today announced further improvements to the air-ambulance service which is used to transport patients from Gozo to Malta, through the upgrading of the air-ambulance helicopter and the introduction of an additional aircraft to be used as a stand-by back up option. The new air-ambulance being brought in is an Airbus Helicopter EC135 type, which is the most common type of a...
Steward Health Care Malta has today submitted an outlined development application for the St. Luke’s Hospital campus, following 9 months of planning and stakeholder meetings aimed at ensuring the site is developed in a way which will allow for care delivery for decades to come. During these months there has been an intensive effort to involve a broad cross-section of the campus community, external...
October 29, 2019
Steward Health Care Malta Completes Medical School Building
Steward Health Care Malta was on Thursday awarded the service commencement certificate, paving the way for Queen Mary University London to welcome students on site for lectures this morning. Steward, who stepped into the concession in January 2018, was asked to prioritize the construction of the medical school. Works began in May 2018 on this 8100sqm state of the art facility and are now complete...
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat today visited the Barts Medical School on the Gozo General Hospital campus to see the progress being achieved on-site. In a press conference that followed the visit, the Prime Minister hailed the “astonishing advancement” achieved in what he described as a “state-of-the-art building”. The Barts Medical School building consists of 8100 sq. meters over 4 floors. This inc...
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