After 13 years at Bendigo Health, Social Worker Teagan Anketell is embracing a new, flexible career path through an innovative Allied Health reliever program.

From palliative care to front of hospital welcome, Bendigo Health’s new Corporate Volunteer Program is showing how small acts of empathy can create powerful, lasting connections.

When Deanna Keogh began her nursing career at the Bendigo Home and Hospital for the Aged in 1979, student nurses still wore hats and end of life care was very different.