Mater is committed to a range of standards, policies and programs to give back to our community.
We recognise our important role in health, education and research and the wider responsibility we have to others. Mater's standards, policies, and programs ensure we fulfill our commitment to community.
Guided by our Mission and Values, we provide sustainable, socially relevant services for a healthy community. Mater's standards, policies, and programs ensure we fulfill this commitment.
- Our Ethical and Sustainable Procurement Policy ensures that price is not the sole factor when making purchasing decisions and financial and non-financial costs and benefits are considered. This may include quality, fitness for purpose, safety, the potential supplier's relevant experience and performance history, flexibility of the proposal, ethical and environmental sustainability and whole of life costs.
- Each year a consignment of products, that are no longer of use in Australia, is collected from across Mater and shipped to areas experiencing need across Africa, Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Catherine's Room provides essential clothing and toiletries for patients who arrive at hospital unprepared. This service is made possible by the generosity of Mater and staff donations.
- Mater works together with the Refugee Health Network Queensland helping overseas trained doctors who arrive in Australia as refugees find a pathway to practice again in their medical field.
- Mater Educations' Diploma of Nursing program offers a Scholarship each year to eligible students from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander or refugee background, funded by generous donors through Mater Foundation.