Colac Area Health

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Heart disease research looks at rural lifestyles

    A Colac district dietician hopes her research into heart disease can lessen the burdens of disadvantaged rural patients with the condition.

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  • New centre will help Aboriginal residents

    The development of a Gathering Place in Colac aims to improve the health and engagement of the region’s Indigenous community.

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  • Boost for nurses’ skills

    A state-wide education and consultancy support program is helping a Colac aged care facility provide end-of-life care to patients.

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  • Team joins program to oppose violence

    Sixteen Colac and district people are banding together to help diminish discrimination, verbal and physical acts of violence.

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