Welcome!

Purpose:
The ADHA supports and represents stand alone day hospitals (and small overnight private hospitals under 100 licensed beds) within the Australian health care environment by supporting their business and their employees, facilitating communication between members and actively representing (ie, on national and state committees) and lobbying on behalf of members. Industry memberships also benefit the Association and members.

Benefits of membership include:

annual conference, benchmarking, promotional material, tool kits (ie, Health Fund Negotiations) and access to the discounted pharmaceuticals and consumables agreement with Brand’s Surgical Supply.

Click here to go to the Membership Benefits webpage.

Click here to go to the Membership Costs webpage.

Mission and Objectives:

Mission Statement

To support and represent day hospitals within the health care environment.

Objectives

Add value to members.
Actively represent and lobby on behalf of members.
Support and facilitate communication between members.

Requests for use of the ADHA Logo

Click here to view the Authorised Use of the ADHA Logo.

Any requests to use our logo should be directed to info@adha.asn.au, Tel: 1800 752 822, Fax: 08 9304 7228

ADHA NEWSLETTER & CONSULTANCY WEBPAGE - Advertising Rates

Click here to view the Advertising Rates for the ADHA Quarterly Newsletter and contact details for the co-ordinator.

ADHA Security and Privacy Policy

Click here to download a copy of this policy.

Did you know that Brand's provides discounted pharmaceuticals and consumables to ADHA Day Hospital, Preliminary and Affiliate members? Brand's also has agreements with other companies, such as Sentry Medical and Saraya Australia to supply their products at discounted prices to ADHA Members and is currently negotiating with another company. For more information, click on this link to go to the Brand's webpage within this website for more information.

Australian Day Hospital Association (ABN 37 054 719 050)

Quarterly Newsletter

The Christmas (quarterly) Member Newsletter (Edition 15, December 2011) has been released and was distributed electronically to Members. The Status focus in this edition is NSW and the Industry focus is Plastics & Orthopaedics.

Members can access a copy of this Newsletter and previous editions by going to the relevant Newsletters webpage by clicking here.

The next quarterly newsletter (Christmas, Edition 15) is due for distribution on 12 December 2011 with the deadline for articles being 2 December. The State focus will be NSW/ACT and the Industry focus will be Plastics & Reconstructive.

Proposed changes to the Health Insurance Rebate Scheme as announced in the Federal Budget 2011

The ADHA is adding our concerns to those already expressed by the Private Health Care Sector regarding the above which could lead to the rebate being means tests or being abolished completely. An independent research document released by Deloittes recently outlines the significant impact that the proposed changes to the Health Insurance Rebate would have on both the Private and Public health sectors. Deloittes outlines if the changes went ahead that there would be an additional 845,000 Public Hospital admissions between 2012 and 2016. The proposed Legislation is price sensitive to all three income category groups identified and the Deloittes research which involved 2,000 Australians holding Private Health Insurance indicated that many would pull out or significantly reduce their level of cover and force up premiums for the remaining insured.

ADHA is lobbying on behalf of members with all Politicians and has compiled a brief Position Statement on this issue. Click here to download a copy. A copy of the Deloittes report can be found on the Australian Health Insurance Association website - http://www.ahia.org.au/).

ADHA Google Groups for Members

Members can join any or all of the following Google Groups.

Management Google Group
Ophthalmology Google Group
Gastroenterology Google Group
Women's Health / IVF Google Group

These are a very simple and user friendly method of raising questions, posting answers, responses and sharing advice with day hospital colleagues on a range of issues in a quick and easy way, e.g., product selection, prices, recommendations on external companies, procedures, processes and equipment. A 4th Google Group for Women's Health/IVF is planned shortly. These are managed by the ADHA Secretariat.

Should you have any queries or wish to join please contact Keeley Berg, ADHA National Secretary (based in SA) on 08 8356 4761 or keeley.berg@adha.asn.au.

Further enquiries on any of the above please contacting info@adha.asn.au or Tel: 1800 752 822.

Next ADHA State Chapter and other ADHA Meetings:-

State	Next Meeting Details
NSW	Date: March 2012 - TBC Venue: Invivo Pty Ltd, L1, 33-35 Atchison St, St Leonards - TBC Chairperson: Dr John Napoli
QLD	Date: 16 March 2012 at 12noon - 2pm Venue: Queensland Eye Hospital Chairperson: Cathy Roberts
SA	Date: 15 February 2012 at 1pm Venue: TBC Chairperson: Michael Chalk
VIC	Date: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 at 1.30pm - 4.30pm Venue: TBC Chairperson: Tim Puyk
WA	Date: Thursday, 9 February 2012 - TBC Venue: TBC Chairperson: Marie Sheehan
2012 AGM	Date: TBC - to be held in conjunction with the ADHA 2012 Conference on 19-21 August in Melbourne Venue: Melbourne Chairperson: Jane Griffiths (ADHA President)

For copies of agendas when issued for the above, members can go to the relevant State webpage and non-members can contact info@adha.asn.au or T: 1800 752 822 to obtain a copy.

Non Members from stand-alone day hospitals are welcome to attend State Chapter meetings in their respective States for up to 6 months before considering membership.

Contact details for the above chairpersons can be obtained by clicking this link to go to the ADHA Committee Member contact list.

ADHA Brochure

This brochure gives a snapshot of the association. To view or download a copy please click here.

Profile - ADHA and Australian Day Surgery Industry

ADHA has compiled this document to provide information and benefits on the day hospital industry to patients, the medical profession, Government, Health Funds, etc. Click here to view or download a copy of this document (reviewed July 2011).