Hospitals

Ballarat Health Services - Ballarat Base Hospital

Ballarat Health Services is the largest regional hospital in the Grampians region, and as such, is the principal referral hospital for the entire Region, which extends from Bacchus Marsh to the South Australian border, an area of 48,000 square kilometres.

More than 224,000 people, or 4.4 per cent of the population of Victoria, live in the Grampians Region.

Ballarat Health Services employs 3000 staff to ensure optimum care is provided for all patients, families and visitors.

Ballarat Health Services was established on 1st of January 1997 to unite and enhance three respected public health services: Queen Elizabeth Centre, Ballarat Base Hospital and Grampians Psychiatric Services.

Ballarat has a population of in excess of 88,000 people and is Australia's 20th largest city. The population of Ballarat is increasing at an annual rate of approximately one per cent.

Profile of Ballarat Health Services

The key services are based at two sites, the Base Hospital site and the Queen Elizabeth Centre site. Each site is located close to the central business district, with the remaining residential, day centres and community sites located throughout Ballarat.

The Base Hospital site

Includes the acute hospital, emergency and diagnostic services as well as adult and secure psychiatric beds.

The Queen Elizabeth Centre site

Includes the inpatient rehabilitation ward, palliative care ward, assessment ward, psycho-geriatric assessment and extended care and nursing home.

There are 13 off-site facilities in Ballarat and a number of community based psychiatric services in Horsham, Stawell, Ararat and Bacchus Marsh.

Ballarat Health Services includes acute, aged and mental health beds.

Significant efforts continue to be devoted to improving the quality, responsiveness and accessibility of psychiatric services through ensuring persons who have a mental illness, and their families are routinely provided with the range of internationally recognised evidence-based and best practice treatments proven to provide the best opportunity of recovery.

Clinicians are being supported with a comprehensive training, education and professional development program which is regularly reviewed, evaluated and assessed to ensure it is achieving the desired outcomes.

St John of God Hospital

St John of God Hospital, Ballarat was established in 1915 and is currently the largest private hospital in regional Victoria. It has 187 beds and provides a full range of medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and intensive care services to Ballarat and Victoria's western region.

On site radiotherapy services are provided in conjunction with Ballarat Health Services and the Austin Repatriation Medical Centre. Collaborative arrangements with other regional health care providers are continually pursued to better meet the needs of the community.

St John of God Hospital, Ballarat is a division of St John of God Health Care, one of Australia's largest health care providers.