The Community and Allied Health Services

presented a Showcase Day recently at the Virtus Soccer Club, with the theme Spring into Green.

The aims and objectives of the day were to enable all staff to be aware of, recognise, and celebrate the achievements of their team and other teams within Community Health and the Mid North Cluster over the past 12 months.

The showcase day gives an opportunity for

guest speakers to present on key future directions including the South Australian Health Care

Plan, Country Health SA and change

management.

The guest speakers were Country Health SA chief executive officer George Beltchev and Director of Program Development, Dana Shen.

The day’s events also provided snapshots of the “big picture” as to where Community Health is going and what is happening strategically around the service.

It also provided opportunities for team building, encouragement and motivation and fun.

Each year the showcase day committee,

comprising of CAHS staff, have the task of organising and planning this event having a different theme each year.

This year’s theme was the environment and staff were encouraged to dress environmentally friendly or with an environmental theme, with one group dressing as wind farm turbines.

There were prizes given to the best dressed and these were won by the Rural Health Team (wind farm), runner’s up were Lisa Backstrom (frog) and Sue Freer (dress made from recycled shopping bags).

Awards were given in the following

categories: outstanding customer service,

champions of challenges, innovative environmental initiatives, most innovative project or program, best

community initiative, most responsive to change and best effort at developing staff skills and capacity award.