Each year, staff at Melbourne Pathology select one charity to support through fundraising events. All proceeds go directly to that chosen charity. We fundraise through BBQs, raffles and an end-of-year Staff Charity Ball.
In 2008, we supported the James Macready-Bryan Foundation. The James Macready-Bryan Foundation aims to raise money and public awareness of the plight of many young people in our community who find themselves, through their disabilities, confined to unsuitable accommodation and with inadequate opportunity to receive appropriate rehabilitation and care. Melbourne Pathology staff raised over $13,000 for the James Macready-Bryan Foundation.
Melbourne Pathology also supports one charity each year in lieu of Christmas gifts. In 2008, we made a charitable donation to H.E.A.L Africa. H.E.A.L. Africa works in the eastern region of Congo, a country that has been named the "worst humanitarian disaster since World War II" by the International Rescue Committee. Eastern Congo is characterised by extreme violence, mass population displacements, widespread rape, and a collapse of public health services.
Melbourne Pathology, together with other Sonic Healthcare practices, has made a commitment to support the people of eastern Congo by equipping, training and providing ongoing logistical support to H.E.A.L. Africa’s Hospital Pathology department. Staff from Sonic Healthcare will be travelling to Goma next year to help with lab staff training and the implementation of new procedures and equipment.
Sonic Healthcare Environmental Policy Commitment
As part of Sonic Healthcare, Melbourne Pathology recognises our corporate responsibility to respect and improve the environment in which we work and live. Our company is committed to meeting all relevant regulatory and legislative environmental requirements, to achieve continual improvement in environmental performance and to prevent pollution. In addition, we are committed to:
- identifying and reducing waste and our consumption of resources
- providing education and training for our staff on environmental matters
- disaster mitigation through emergency planning to reduce adverse environmental outcomes.
Melbourne Pathology's management understands its responsibility with regard to protecting our environment and will work to enable employee commitment and involvement that increases environmental awareness. This will, in turn, greatly assist continual improvement.
In accordance with the Sonic Values of “Demonstrating Responsibility and Accountability” and “Enthusiasm for Continuous Improvement”, our environmental policy includes a commitment to transparency of compliance. We will establish and maintain procedures which specify our environmental objectives and targets and facilitate their regular review.
We will assume a leadership role in our diagnostic practices by encouraging our customers, suppliers and other stakeholders to mirror our commitment to environmental responsibility.