Central Highlands Rural Health - Daylesford

About

This is where the hospital and healthcare services of our region have come together to work as one. To share resources, knowledge and expertise, and improve operating efficiency. Each location will maintain its local identity and its local team. Daylesford Health, Kyneton Health, Creswick Health, Trentham Health and Clunes Health. In November 2019, Hepburn Health Service joined forces with our colleagues at Kyneton District Health to establish a new entity - Central Highlands Rural Health. The primary goal of Central Highlands Rural Health is to continue to provide the best possible integrated health services for our communities across a broader region. Central Highlands Rural Health offers community health care and treatment to local and visiting clients. The service seeks to maintain and improve health and wellbeing by developing and implementing appropriate health strategies to address personalised care within an integrated health service delivery system. Hepburn Health is a rural health and wellbeing service working in partnership with communities across the Hepburn Shire. Our communities are richly diverse with wide differences in health and wellbeing status. A complex range of ongoing services are required for our rural population of 15,000 people. Being located within a major tourist region brings added complexity with large population fluctuations. Our region experiences above the Victorian state average in the incidence of chronic disease, its socio-economic disadvantage and in population ageing. Hepburn Health is committed to providing community outreach and bed-based services, either directly itself or through effective partnership arrangements. Incorporating health promotion principles, our services encompass all stages of life, including keeping people well, early intervention, treatment of illness, and all levels of aged care - from in home care through to residential services and dignified dying.