Medical Assessment Units provide specialist treatment for elderly patients
Source: New South Wales Health. Minister for Health. Media release.
"NSW Minister for Health, Reba Meagher, today announced a major step forward in the way our public hospitals treat elderly patients and those with chronic diseases.
Ms Meagher said Medical Assessment Units were being opened in 16 public hospitals to provide faster and better coordinated care for older patients within the hospital, community and home.
"The number of people aged 75 years and older who are going to public hospital emergency departments is rising by 20 per cent each year," Ms Meagher said.
"The key challenge for our health professionals and for Government is to find the best way to provide the right type of care that these patients need."