Award-winning Busselton Rehabilitation team flexes its muscles

Congratulations to the Rehabilitation team at Busselton Health Campus who recently won two Australasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre (AROC) awards.

AROC, the national rehabilitation medicine integrated outcomes centre of Australia and New Zealand, is a joint initiative of the Australian rehabilitation sector, which includes providers, funders, regulators and consumers.

The awards recognise top-performing hospitals and multidisciplinary teams across Australia and New Zealand.

The team’s dedication towards personalised, patient-centred care saw them take honours in both:

• The National Award for Ortho-Geriatric/Fracture Rehabilitation Excellence.
• The National Award for Most Improved Outcomes AROC monitors and benchmarks over 95 per cent of all inpatient rehabilitation facilities across Australia and New Zealand.

Unlike many awards that involve nominations, winners of AROC awards are selected via analysing patient data and benchmarking functional improvements, discharge outcomes, and length of stay against national peers using the Functional Independence Measure (FIM).

District Director Coastal South West Jodie Omodei reflected on the team’s commitment to providing and improving specialised care for patients.

“The success in ortho-geriatric care is particularly meaningful,” Jodie said.

“Our multidisciplinary team is consistently outperforming national averages by successfully minimising hospital length of stay while maximising our patients' functional independence gains, and return to the community.

“The complex patient cohort requires highly coordinated, specialised care to safely navigate post-surgical frailty and cognitive risks, and the data proves our clinical pathway is operating at a world-class standard.

“Being recognised as ‘Most Improved’ highlights our culture of continuous quality improvement and our ability to translate data insights into tangible bedside outcomes.

“This achievement belongs to every clinician and support staff member on the ward.”

For more information on AROC and their upcoming Australasian Rehabilitation Symposium 2026: Rehabilitation - Everybody’s Business visit the AROC website.