National Health Regulations (Amendment) 1994 No. 201
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1994 No. 201
Issued by Authority of the Minister for Human Services and Health
National Health Act 1953
National Health Regulations (Amendment)
Subsection 140(1) of the National Health Act 1953 (the Act) provides that the GovernorGeneral may make regulations, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed.
A number of government nursing homes have previously been prescribed by regulation as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purposes of section 4AAAA of the Act on 1 May, 1 June, 1 July and 1 November 1993 and 1 May and 1 June 1994. This amended regulation is to prescribe an additional group of government nursing homes in Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as adjusted fee government nursing homes.
Currently, proprietors of government nursing homes receive a fixed rate of benefit for each nursing home patient. The rate of benefit paid in respect of such patients has been frozen since 1985. In the 1992 Federal Budget, the Government announced its intention that government nursing homes be brought into the care aggregated module (CAM) funding system which applies only to privately operated nursing homes and adjusted fee government nursing homes. The CAM funding system will result in higher levels of benefit being paid to the proprietors of nursing homes that become adjusted fee government nursing homes. In order for existing government nursing homes to become adjusted fee government nursing homes and thereby be brought into the CAM funding system, they must be prescribed as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purposes of section 4AAAA of the Act.
Groups of government nursing homes throughout Australia have been progressively prescribed as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purpose of the Act. On 1 May 1993, the first group of government nursing homes in Victoria became adjusted fee government nursing homes. This was followed by a second group of nursing homes in Victoria on 1 June 1993, the third group in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania on 1 July 1993, a fourth group in Victoria on 1 November 1993, a fifth group in Tasmania on 1 May 1994 and a sixth group in Victoria on 1 June 1994.
The purpose of the National Health Regulations (Amendment) is to prescribe a seventh group of government nursing homes, namely 44 nursing homes in Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as adjusted fee government nursing homes with effect from 1 July 1994. This will complete the transfer of homes in Victoria and the ACT to the adjusted fee government nursing home arrangements. The nursing homes prescribed are set out in the Attachment. The regulations also omit the current Schedule 5 (list of adjusted fee government nursing homes) and substitute a new Schedule 5 which consolidates the list of all adjusted fee government nursing homes.
In addition, it is necessary to amend the Schedule to allocate a new approval number to Spencer Nursing Home in Tasmania for accountability purposes. This home is an existing adjusted fee government nursing home which transferred to private sector ownership on 16 May 1994. The new number is allocated retrospectively from that date.
The Regulations commenced on 1 July 1994.
ATTACHMENT
VICTORIA
Name & Address of Nursing Home |
| Approval No. |
Ararat and District Hospital |
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John Pickford House |
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Girdlestone Street |
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ARARAT, 3377 |
| 3476S |
Camperdown District Hospital |
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Nursing Home Unit |
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York Street |
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CAMPERDOWN, 3260 |
| 3461S |
Casterton Memorial Hospital |
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Nursing Home |
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Mt Gambier Road |
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CASTERTON, 3311 |
| 3495S |
Caulfield Hospital |
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Infirm Section |
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Wards 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 |
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294 Kooyong Road |
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CAULFIELD, 3162 |
| 4452S |
The Clunes and District Hospital |
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The Clunes and District Nursing Home |
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Ballarat Road |
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CLUNES, 3370 |
| 4388S |
Coleraine and District Nursing Home |
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McKebery Street |
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COLERAINE, 3315 |
| 4406S |
Dimboola District Hospital |
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Nursing Home Unit |
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156-158 Lloyd Street |
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DIMBOOLA, 3414 |
| 3481S |
Donald and District Hospital |
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Donald and District Nursing Home |
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Aitken Avenue |
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DONALD, 3480 |
| 4364S |
Dumunkle - Rupanyup Hospital |
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Rupanyup District Nursing Home |
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89 Cromie Street |
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Eastern Suburbs Geriatric Centre |
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Cnr Mahoney's Road |
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and Burwood Highway |
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BURWOOD EAST, 3151 |
| 4408S |
Edenhope District Hospital |
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Kowree Nursing Home Unit |
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128-132 Elizabeth Street |
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EDENHOPE, 3318 |
| 3498S |
Elanora Home and Hospital |
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for the Aged |
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East, West, Centre and John Grant |
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East Wings |
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7 Mair Street |
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BRIGHTON BEACH, 3188 |
| 3404S |
George Vowell Home for the Blind |
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Cnr Nepean Highway and Cobb Road |
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MT ELIZA, 3930 |
| 3494S |
Gippsland South Health Service |
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Korumburra Campus |
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Bridge Road |
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KORUMBURRA, 3950 |
| 3485S |
Gippsland South Health Service |
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Leongatha Campus |
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Koonwarra Road |
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LEONGATHA, 3953 |
| 3419S |
Heywood Nursing Home |
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21 Barclay Street |
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WEST HEYWOOD, 3304 |
| 4412S |
Jeparit and District Hospital |
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Jeparit and District Nursing Home |
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Edith Street |
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JEPARIT, 3434 |
| 4382S |
Kaniva District Hospital |
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Archie Gray Nursing Home Unit |
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Roache Street |
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KANIVA, 3419 |
| 4365S |
Kelaston Home for the Blind |
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Rooms 1 to 20 |
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1300 Howitt Street |
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WENDOUREE, 3355 |
| 3438S |
Kingston Centre |
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South 1, 2, 3, 5 North 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13 and 14 |
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Cnr Kingston and Warrigal Roads |
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CHELTENHAM, 3192 |
| 4453S |
Kingston Centre |
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Yarraman Nursing Home |
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Yarraman Road |
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NOBLE PARK, 3174 |
| 4439S |
Koroit and District Hospital |
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Nursing Home Annexe |
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Mills Street |
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KOROIT, 3282 |
| 4403S |
Lismore and District Hospital |
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Nursing Home Annexe |
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High Street |
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LISMORE, 3324 |
| 4404S |
Lorne Community Hospital |
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Lorne Nursing Home |
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Lot 1 Albert Street |
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LORNE, 3232 |
| 4368S |
Macarthur Nursing Home |
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12 Archonachie Street |
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MACARTHUR, 3286 |
| 4411S |
Maffra District Hospital |
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J H F McDonald Wing |
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48 Kent Street |
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MAFFRA, 3860 |
| 3462S |
Mirridong Home for Aged Blind |
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Beds 24-28 and 31-63 inclusive |
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McIvor Road |
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BENDIGO, 3550 |
| 3439S |
Mt Eliza Centre |
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Carinya Nursing Home |
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Golf Links Road |
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FRANKSTON, 3199 |
| 4434S |
Nhill Hospital |
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Mira Nursing Home |
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51 Nelson Street |
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NHILL, 3418 |
| 3474S |
Northwest Hospital |
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- McLellan House |
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Psychogeriatric Nursing Home |
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22-26 Robinson Street |
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JACANA, 3047 |
| 4396S |
Northwest Hospital |
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- Weighbridge |
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Psychogeriatric Nursing Home |
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72 Ascot Vale Road |
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FLEMINGTON, 3031 |
| 4405S |
Omeo Hospital |
|
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Nursing Home Unit |
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Eastern Street |
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OMEO, 3898 |
| 4461S |
Penshurst Nursing Home |
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W J Lewis Wing |
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Watton Street |
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PENSHURST, 3289 |
| 4392S |
Portland and District Hospital |
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Seymour Cundy Wing |
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Bentinck Street |
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PORTLAND, 3305 |
| 3467S |
Queen Elizabeth Centre |
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Ripon Peace Memorial Hospital |
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Havelock Street |
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BEAUFORT, 3373 |
| 4468S |
Queen Elizabeth Centre |
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P S Hobson Nursing Home |
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Gillies Street |
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WENDOUREE, 3355 |
| 4459S |
Stawell and District Hospital |
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W H Syme and H and F Perry Wings |
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Sloan Street |
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STAWELL, 3380 |
| 3480S |
Terang and District Community |
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Hospital |
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Norah Cosgrove Nursing Home |
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1 Austin Avenue |
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TERANG, 3264 |
| 4391S |
Warracknabeal and District Hospital |
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JR and AE Landt Trust Nursing Home |
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Dimboola Road |
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WARRACKNABEAL, 3393 |
| 3488S |
Western Hospital - Westside Lodge |
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Psychogeriatric Nursing Home |
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Santiago Street |
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ST ALBANS, 3021 |
| 4394S |
Willaura and District Hospital |
|
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Nursing Home Unit |
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Delacombe Way |
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WILLAURA, 3291 |
| 4387S |
Yarram and District Nursing Home |
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85 Commercial Road |
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YARRAM, 3971 |
| 4443S |
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY |
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Jindalee Nursing Home |
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Goyder Street |
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NARRABUNDAH, 2604 |
| 2982S |
TASMANIA |
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Spencer Nursing Home |
| 8419S |
Coldie Street |
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WYNYARD, 7325 |
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