Colac Area Health
Service helps violence victims
Family violence workers servicing Colac and district say they can help women and families affected by family violence needing to access Centrelink.
Man in the dark over fee refund
A Cressy man who was wrongly charged $60 to attend Colac Area Health’s urgent care says the hospital should contact him and offer reimbursement for the fee.
Hospital chief muses on mental health idea
Colac Area Health patients presenting with mental health conditions could benefit from basing mental health workers at Colac Hospital, chief executive Geoff Iles says.
State to review urgent-care centre
The State Government will review Victoria’s regional urgent-care centres after ruling that a Colac Area Health fee was inconsistent with national health funding rules.
Minister wants hospital to reimburse $60 payments
Victoria’s Health Minister Jill Hennessy says she expects Colac Area Health to reimburse patients charged a $60 fee to attend the hospital’s urgent-care centre.
Health demand grows
Colac Area Health has more patients using urgent and acute care services this year, but overall is meeting less than half of Colac Otway Shire’s health needs.
GPs to provide 24-hour care
Colac Area Health will employ its own general practitioners for the first time in 31 years, with new doctors providing 24-hour care from Monday.
Quest to track down life-saving twin boys
Mary Davies is on a mission to track down the twin baby boys who saved her life when she was born three months premature in 1938 in Colac Hospital.