The Bays Hospital & Dialysis

03/12/2025

🎄✨ Our Christmas Raffle is here! ✨🎄

Get ready to win big while supporting a wonderful cause! This year, we’ve lined up FIVE incredible prizes you won’t want to miss. 🎁

All proceeds go to our Light the Way Christmas Appeal, helping to bring brighter care to our community. 🌟

🎟️ Tickets are on sale at Reception for the next 2 weeks:
⦁ 1 ticket for $5
⦁ 3 tickets for $10
⦁ A full book of 100 tickets for $250 – perfect for sharing with family, friends, or your community!

Let’s make this our brightest and biggest Christmas Appeal yet! Thank you for helping us Light the Way. ✨🎅🏼💛

You can also donate directly to our Christmas Appeal here: https://the-bays-christmas-appeal.raiselysite.com/

01/12/2025

🌸 Perinatal Mental Health Wellbeing Workshop 🌸

Expecting a baby or have welcomed one in the past year? Join us for a half-day workshop designed to support your mental health and wellbeing during this important life stage.

🗓 Date: Saturday, 24 January 2026
⏰ Time: 1pm-4pm
📍 Location: The rooms of Dr Ford and Dr Fiske, Suite 8, The Bays Hospital, 262 Main Street, Mornington VIC 3931
💲Cost: $40 per person

This workshop is suitable for:
- Pregnant women (attend alone or with your partner)
- Parents who have had a baby in the past year

💡 Facilitators: Mental health clinicians Jo Ford and Anthony Aliotta

Take the time to focus on your emotional wellbeing and gain practical strategies to navigate the perinatal period.

This event is proudly supported and subsidised by the charity It's OK Not To Be OK.

🎟 Register now: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1493128

28/11/2025

✨ Introducing The Bays Wig Library ✨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new Wig Library at The Bays Cancer Care Centre Wellness Centre on 8 December! 💖

Thanks to the dedication of our amazing volunteers, Dee and Wendy, this space will offer patients comfort, confidence, and support through every stage of their cancer treatment journey.

Both women were inspired to be part of this program after losing their own sisters to breast cancer, Dee almost 20 years ago and Wendy more recently. When Wendy's daughter Leah who also works at The Bays suggested she get involved, she jumped at the chance and saw this as a way to honour her sister Judy’s memory by supporting others with warmth, empathy, and understanding.

Dee and Wendy have completed specialised training with CelebrityBrandz Wigs to bring this vision to life, and will guide you through a wide range of wigs and headwear.

💇‍♀️ What to expect:
⦁ Private 1:1 wig sessions (between 10am-2pm by appointment)
⦁ A wide range of wigs and headwear to explore
⦁ Friendly, relaxed, and confidential support
⦁ Tea, coffee, and often a laugh along the way!
⦁ Bring a friend, family member, or support person

Every session is free of charge and designed to create a calm, welcoming space where you can take a breath and focus on yourself. 🌸

Dee and Wendy’s generosity and personal experience help honour their sisters’ memories while bringing comfort, dignity, and connection to our patients.

📩 To book a session or for more info, email executive@thebays.com.au or call 03 5976 5275.

Let’s celebrate this beautiful new chapter of care together! 💕

28/11/2025

We recently recognised our incredible Perioperative Nursing team during Perioperative Nurses Week (9–15 November) - and this year’s theme, STARS, couldn’t be more fitting. 🌟

From our Scrub/Scout Nurses and Technicians to our Anaesthetics, Recovery and Support teams, each of you plays a vital role in delivering safe, compassionate and seamless care for our patients.

As part of the celebrations, we acknowledged our team with:
🏆 The Perioperative Nurses Week Award
🤝 The G.L.U.E. Award – recognising a team member who keeps everyone connected and working together
🎁 Daily surprise awards celebrating the many ways our staff shine
🍔 A staff barbecue to bring everyone together in appreciation of the team

Thank you to all our perioperative professionals for your dedication, teamwork and excellence 💙

26/11/2025

Caring knows no borders! 🌏💛

Bays midwife Meaghan Acreman recently fulfilled a 25-year dream, joining a No Roads Foundation volunteer team in Papua New Guinea to provide nursing and midwifery care to remote villages.

Over 10 days, Meaghan and the team:
✨ Treated 1,076 patients across 7 clinics
✨ Visited 10 remote villages and travelled 17 boat rides & 6 flights
✨ Delivered 2 babies (one even named after the midwives who helped!)
✨ Educated local health workers and volunteers to create sustainable healthcare

“The villagers were so grateful for our care - they carried our bags, fed us, and showed their thanks in every way they could,” Meaghan recalls.

From fashioning glasses for a young boy to creating an antenatal clinic in a school storage cupboard, her creativity, compassion, and dedication made a real difference.

Meaghan returned home inspired:
“Put yourself out there and experience this life-changing work. You’ll come back a different person — with a deeper appreciation for what we have, and for the power of compassion to make a real difference.”

Thank you, Meaghan, for showing that care and compassion truly know no boundaries! 👏

24/11/2025

“When Makaira arrived early, having specialised lights at The Bays meant we could stay close to home - and close to each other. Within days, she was back in our arms, happy and healthy.” - Gabby, mum to baby Makaira

This Christmas, your generosity can help more families experience moments like this.

We’re raising funds for new neonatal phototherapy lights, a bili blanket and vital theatre equipment - tools that bring comfort, reassurance, and healing to our tiniest patients.

💛 Every gift helps keep brighten care for local families.
👉 Learn more or donate today: https://bit.ly/baysxmas2025

Let’s light the way together ✨

21/11/2025

💙 Our first-ever Community Impact Report is here!

As an independent, community-owned, not-for-profit organisation, with no ongoing government funding, everything we achieve is powered by our patients, families, volunteers, donors, members and partners across the Peninsula.

The report shares the real stories behind the stats – babies born, surgeries performed, dialysis sessions delivered – and how our community helped make it happen. Whether you volunteer, donate, become a member or simply share our message – you’re part of this.

Click the Link below to see what we’ve built together.

https://www.thebays.com.au/app/uploads/2025/11/The-Bays-Community-Impact-Report-FY24_25.pdf

06/11/2025

🎨 ArtCare at The Bays

We’re delighted to feature the beautiful work of local artist Catherine De Boise as part of our ArtCare Program - an initiative that brings art, colour, and calm to our hospital spaces.

Catherine’s serene coastal landscapes capture the ever-changing light of the Mornington Peninsula, offering moments of peace and reflection for patients, families, and staff alike.

As part of this exhibition, Catherine is generously donating a percentage of her artwork sales to The Bays. As a not-for-profit hospital, we’re deeply grateful for her support - and for the many artists who help us continue to care for our community in such meaningful ways.

🖼️ Visit The Bays to see Catherine’s work on display and experience the restorative power of art firsthand.

02/11/2025

🚐 Marjorie the BreastScreen Bus is here!

BreastScreen Victoria’s mobile screening van has arrived at The Bays Cancer Care Centre and will be here until 10 December - offering free, potentially life-saving breast screens.

For women aged 50–74, having a breast screen every two years is the best way to detect cancer early, when treatment is most effective.

💗 Book your appointment today:
📞 Call 13 20 50 or visit breastscreen.org.au

We’re proud to support our community with exceptional care and a strong focus on prevention and early detection.

28/10/2025

Join The Bays Maternity Team!

At The Bays, we offer personalised, community-focused care. Our emphasis on longer stays and low-risk care enables our midwives to build meaningful relationships with patients and families.

Our small, dedicated team fosters a collaborative, close-knit culture where midwives are valued, supported and recognised for their contributions.

Our midwives are empowered to practice to the full scope of their role, contributing to high-quality care in the birth suite, postnatally and in the special care nursery.

We have both part-time and casual roles available for midwives who want to be part of a team that enhances job satisfaction while supporting better outcomes for mothers and babies.

For more information and to apply, visit:

The Bays offers aged care, acute medical, surgical, obstetric and dialysis services, specialist consulting suites, pharmacy, radiology and pathology.