Business
11 September, 2024
Medical practice expands
CAIRNS Doctors and Specialists on Barr St at Earlville have expanded and reached an agreement with Cairns Private Hospital to share services.
The medical practice will provide their private consultation rooms and services to the hospital which will offer its custom built, state-of-the-art theatres for surgical procedures to specialists who are interested in practising in the Cairns region.
Hospital chief executive officer Ben Tooth said the partnership “will help secure much needed specialist health services for our region by providing specialists with custom built consultancy rooms and surgical theatres”.
“We hope that this partnership will help to attract more specialists to our region,” he said.
Practice business manager Jason Christopher said the business had grown from three general medical practitioners in August 2017 to 13 GPs and eight specialists.
“Our vision and the practice’s ethos has always been about improving the health outcomes for the people of Cairns and the local region,” he said.
“Increasing access to specialist services here in FNQ enables us to help achieve that goal,” he said.
The practice’s expansion has included a mezzanine level that accommodates the specialists as well as Dr Chris Donahue as a new business partner joining current business partners Jason Christopher, Frank and Vinnie Pappalardo.
The specialists include three paediatricians, a dermatologist, a gynaecologist, an alternative, plant-based medical specialist, a general surgeon, a geriatrician, a vasectomy specialist and two psychologists.
