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About Us
We are a Victorian Public Health Service incorporated under the Health Services Act 1988 (The Act).
The group is bound by a Service Agreement with the Department of Human Services to deliver Acute Care, Aged Care, Allied, Disability and Community Health Services for the six rural communities of Nhill, Goroke, Jeparit, Kaniva, Rainbow and Natimuk.
Building a New Service
Our history traces back to the incorporation of the Nhill, Jeparit and Kaniva Hospitals to form West Wimmera Health Service on 21st August 1995. In quick succession Rainbow Bush Nursing Hospital 2006, Goroke Community Health Centre and Natimuk Bush Nursing Hospital 1998 and Cooinda Disability Service in 1999 joined the fledgling Service - the foundation on which a progressive rural health care network was built.
Between 1996 and 2006 'Iona' Digby Harris Home, Nhill was opened, new hospitals were built at Kaniva, Jeparit, Rainbow and Natimuk, Cooinda was totally redeveloped and the Acute Care section of the Nhill Hospital was rebuilt.
We haven't finished yet. We must complete the Nhill Hospital, Mira Primary Care Centre and re-develop Dental Clinics at Rainbow, Kaniva and Goroke.
Delivering Improved Services
We have maintained Accreditation status for all programs since the first ACHS Survey as West Wimmera Health Service which was conducted in November 2000 and Aged Care Accreditation, since the first survey by the Commonwealth Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency in October 2000, as well as certification for Disability and HACC Services. Concrete evidence of the quality of our care.
Planning for a Bright Future
Our people value their health services, in their homes or in our Hospitals, Hostels and Nursing Homes. We will keep it that way.
Our energy now will be directed to planning the future configuration of services and programs as we position the future place of West Wimmera Health Service in providing health, welfare and disability services in the Grampians region.
