Business Chief APAC+ANZ Magazine January 2015 | Page 92

THE VALLEY PRIVATE HOSPITAL
The Valley Private Hospitals constructed 4 new theatres incorporating the latest dig These digital theatres enable connectivity and routing of multiple equipment input
system , a Maquet theatre system and a Magnus table . The move was so groundbreaking that teams from both Siemens and Maquet in Germany traveled to the hospital to admire and marvel at the world first .
Additionally , the hospital also built a brand new 10-bed , state-of-theart intensive care unit with the latest technologies , a new ward , four new operating theaters , the largest integrated digital theaters and then added an EOS , Nobel Prize winning , spinal imaging system from France .
“ We were the second in Australia with this technology ,” said Henderson of the French spinal imaging system . “ It ’ s a spinal imaging , low dose radiation X-ray machine that allows surgeons to have a 3D recreation of the spine , hips and knees .”
Storz in Germany were the first to develop a 3D camera for laparascopic surgery and The Valley Private Hospital acquired this as well . “ For more good luck than good planning , the first camera in Australia landed in our lap ,” said Henderson .
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