{"id":33600,"date":"2013-05-17T22:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T12:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=33600"},"modified":"2020-09-21T18:57:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T08:57:50","slug":"new-face-on-health-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/05\/17\/new-face-on-health-board\/","title":{"rendered":"New Face On Health Board"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Megan O'Shannessy ... new appointee on the Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service Board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May 17, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

All directors – including South Burnett councillor Cheryl Dalton and Kingaroy businessman Terry Fleischfresser – have been reappointed to the Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service Board.<\/p>\n

Plus there’s one new face …<\/p>\n

Board Chair Mike Horan said today he was pleased to announce that highly experienced nurse and health administrator Ms Megan O\u2019Shannessy had been appointed to the Board.<\/p>\n

“Megan is a registered nurse and midwife and many people would know her from her years as Director of Nursing at Warwick Hospital,” Mr Horan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 30 years with Queensland Health, Megan took up the position of Director of the Prevocational\u00a0General Practice Program at Queensland Rural Medical Education earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to working with Megan and will greatly value her input into board\u00a0deliberations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms O\u2019Shannessy said she was excited to begin work with the DDHHS Board and having worked\u00a0with several board members over many years felt she could \u201chit the ground running\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am passionate about rural health care and I\u2019m keen to work with the board on innovative\u00a0solutions to recruitment and retention issues as well as infrastructure,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Ms O\u2019Shannessy began her nursing career in 1982 as a student nurse at the Royal\u00a0Brisbane Hospital.<\/p>\n

Her post-graduate years were spent in paediatric intensive care at the\u00a0Royal Children’s Hospital.<\/p>\n

Following her midwifery year at Kirwan Hospital in Townsville she\u00a0took up the relieving role of Director of Nursing at Blackall-Tambo and Isisford for 18 months.<\/p>\n

Over a 25 year rural nursing career Ms O\u2019Shannessy has been the Director of Nursing at\u00a0Thargomindah, Cunnamulla, Dirranbandi, St George and Warwick Hospitals.<\/p>\n

She was a\u00a0member of the Queensland Nursing Council from 1998 to 2000.<\/p>\n

She completed a Bachelor of\u00a0Nursing at the University of Southern Queensland in 1996 and is at present completing her\u00a0Masters in Public Health at the James Cook University.<\/p>\n

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DDHS 2013-14 Board Appointments<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The eight DDHHS board directors re-appointed were:<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Dr Dennis Campbell (Toowoomba), Cr\u00a0Cheryl Dalton (Kingaroy), Dr Ross Hetherington (Warwick),\u00a0Dr Ian Keys (Dalby),\u00a0Dr Jeff Prebble (Toowoomba), Ms Marie Pietsch (Inglewood), \u00a0Mr Terry Fleischfresser (Kingaroy) and \u00a0Ms Trish Leddington-Hill (Chinchilla).<\/p>\n

The DDHHS area stretches from Goondiwindi in the south to Taroom in\u00a0the north west and north to Kingaroy and Murgon. The DDHHS boundaries take in one major\u00a0regional hospital (Toowoomba Hospital), 19 rural hospital facilities, three outpatients clinics,\u00a0seven aged care facilities plus a range of mental health, community and oral health services.<\/p>\n

The Board meets every month and every second meeting is held in one of the rural\u00a0centres within the DDHHS area.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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