Community health and the maintenance of a healthy life style are two of the aspects of care offered by the Maldon Hospital and an innovative way of encouraging the community to think about its health is through the young students in the region. Consequently, the Hospital has introduced the Awards and Scholarships schemes to involve and encourage our local students, with the encouragement aimed at the two important levels: our primary students and our tertiary students.

Maldon Hospital has been providing health care for the Maldon region for 150 years and in 2009 it celebrated these 150 years of continuous operation. To celebrate the 150th year, and to start a year of recognising its 150 years of commitment to providing health care, the Hospital presented the inaugural "Maldon Hospital Primary School Awards" in December 2008 and awarded the inaugural "Maldon Hospital Scholarship" in February 2009.

The Maldon Hospital Scholarship
  A ground breaking initiative is the "Maldon Hospital Scholarship". The Scholarship will be awarded each year to a student from the Maldon region who is taking a full-time tertiary level course in a health related area and is willing to make a commitment to use their acquired skills in regional Victoria, but preferably in our region. The Scholarship will provide the student with $2,000 a year for a maximum of three years. The Hospital anticipates that it will offer the scholarship annually and that it will encourage students to consider undertaking a course in a health related area.

The current Scholarship holders are:
  Tania Flavell
Andrew Farrington
2009 to 2011
2010 to 2012
Bachelor of Midwifery
Bachelor of Medicine

Applications for the 2010 award have now closed, a call for applications will be made in November 2010 and applications for the 2011 scholarship will close in January 2011.

  Scholarship Guidelines
    The Guidelines may be obtained from the Maldon Hospital, see Contact Us, or a copy of the Guidelines can be downloaded as an Adobe pdf file.
Download the Guidelines (for 2011)
 
  Scholarship Application Form
    The Application Form for the 2011 Scholarship will be available in November and may be obtained from the Maldon Hospital, see Contact Us, or a copy of the Application Form can be downloaded as an Adobe pdf file or as a Microsoft Word document.
Download the Application Form as a pdf file (for 2011)
Download the Application Form as a Word document (for 2011)

The Maldon Hospital Awards
  The Maldon Primary School is working enthusiastically with the Hospital to incorporate aspects of health into the school's curriculum and to integrate this with activities that include the Hospital. The students will be visiting the Hospital, talking to its residents and staff, and participating in some of the Hospital's activities. Towards the end of the year the students will prepare projects based on their experiences at the Hospital and these projects could take any form preferred by the individual student - they could be written, drawn, painted, sculpted, filmed, or any other format. A panel, selected from members of the community, will then have the difficult task of assessing the projects. Awards will be presented for the best projects as judged by the panel. Two awards are to be presented at the end of the year at an appropriate school function, with a presentation to the school to acknowledge their assistance.

The projects that were submitted in 2009 were displayed at the Hospital's Open Day in August 2009. This enabled Maldon to share in the creative results of our young students.