User talk:Jazmin Malcolm at Townsville HHS

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Townsville University Hospital
Hi, Jazmin! I see you have added a couple of citations to the new material about the hospital but we really do need more citations to cover everything you have added. Also I find the description of the geographic coverage of the hospital confusing. For example, in one sentence it says extending north to Cardwell. Then in the following sentence it is talking about the Torres Strait (which is a lot further north than Cardwell). Ditto the other directions. Are there two catchment areas for different types of services that hasn't been made clear here. Also, it is not policy to add links to external websites in the body of articles (only within citations) so the links to the 20 odd facilities would be better made into citations to those websites. Let me know if you need any help. Just write here. Kerry (talk) 23:32, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Kerry,

The 2017-2018 annual report will be tabled in Parliament soon so I will use that as a citation. We have a variety of facilities across the Townsville HHS. If you use Townsville as the central point these directions make sense (please have a look on Google maps as a reference if you're not familiar with this area).

E.G Using Townsville HHS as the central point: Cardwell is north, Richmond is west, Home Hill is south, and Magnetic and Palm Island are both east. We have a variety of facilities in these areas.

Does this make sense? I can draw a map if that will help.

I can make those citations, that's an easy fix.


 * I know my Queensland geography pretty well, but it's the inconsistency of these two adjacent sentences that are my problem:

"The Townsville HHS covers a geographic expanse extending north to Cardwell, west to Richmond, south to Home Hill, and east to Magnetic and Palm Islands ... the HHS services an extensive catchment stretching from Mackay in the south, north to the Torres Strait Islands, and west to the Northern Territory border." In the first sentence the coverage is a much smaller area than in the second sentence. Either one is right and the other is wrong, or else the sentences relate to different types of services. Kerry (talk) 00:20, 9 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Kerry,


 * The difference here is that we treat all patients within our geographic area, regardless of their ailment; however, as the tertiary-referral centre for the North, we also take patients from outside of our geographic catchment if their local hospital does not offer more specialised treatments. For example, a woman in Cairns would need to receive her routine pre-natal care in Cairns; however, if the woman required more complex care for her pregnancy that wasn't offered in Cairns, The Townsville Hospital would also treat her despite the fact she was outside of our geographic catchment.


 * Jazmin Malcolm at Townsville HHS (talk) 01:48, 10 October 2018 (UTC)


 * One other thing. Your username suggests that you are an employee of the hospital. If so, you do need to make a paid editing disclosure on your User:Jazmin Malcolm at Townsville HHS user page (just click on the red link). Just write on it "I am an employee of the Townsville Hospital" (or something along those lines). I should explain that this doesn't give you any special privileges in relation this article, but rather you are held to a higher standard requiring that you are highly factual and not at all promotional when you write about the hospital. Citations play an important role in this. Content without citations can be deleted. Kerry (talk) 00:30, 9 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Added :)


 * Jazmin Malcolm at Townsville HHS (talk) 01:48, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi all, I'm needing to change the name Townsville Hospital to Townsville University Hospital. We officially changed our name last year and this is reflected in the text/body of the Wikipedia page but we're needing to change the title as well. This change was endorsed by all levels of Government. Please let me know if you require further documentation.