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At Western District Health Service, our mission is to meet the health needs of the residents of the Western District by delivering valued, high quality primary care, health promotion and illness prevention, acute care, extended care and community based services.

We value:

  • Our customers
  • Improving performance
  • Our staff as our most valuable resource
  • Strong leadership
  • Safe practice

News

 
 

Indigenous Oral Health Research Project – improving the oral health of children
2 September 2010

The Primary and Preventative Health Division are working in partnership with Winda Mara Aboriginal Corporation and the Melbourne University Dental Health School to research the oral health needs of local indigenous children....more>


TOTT In Kind Sponsorship

TOTT says a big thank you to in kind sponsors
28 August 2010

With only eight weeks to go until the big event, the organisation for The Top Of The Town Charity Ball is really starting to kick into gear.  An enormous amount of work goes into the organising and running of an event such as “The TOTT Ball”, and it would not be possible without the generous support of so many goods and service providers.....more>


Baimbridge College Students

 

So What is a Health Career?
28 August 2010

Western District Health Service hosted its second annual ‘Careers in Health Day’ earlier this month, and, this year, extended the program to run over two days to include Year 10, 11 and 12 students from schools across the region.....more> 


Skene Painting

Treasured Painting returned to Health Service
27 August 2010

In a wonderful gesture of good will by former Hamilton Base Hospital Matron Esme Dunnell, a beautiful watercolour painting of Skene Homestead, painted in 1959, by well known and respected Hamilton identity Mr Sam Fitzpatrick, has been gifted to the Western District Health Service, Hamilton Base Hospital campus.....more>


Kaylene Sandford Birches

Volunteers Make a Difference
20 August 2010

Sometimes it’s the small things that make all the difference. This is certainly the case at the Western District Health Service  residential aged care facility ‘The Birches’   with  five  new volunteers making a big difference .....more>


Dietician Sophie Roberts

New survey to investigate food access
16 August 2010

How do you get to the shops? Are fresh fruit and vegetables easily available for you?  Residents in the Southern Grampians Shire are invited to take part in a survey about access to food. The survey is an initiative of the Western District Health Service and the Southern Grampians & Glenelg Primary Care Partnership Food Security working group.....more>


Tooth Erosion

Dental Health Week at Western District Health Service
2 August 2010

In the interest of community development and oral health care awareness, the Australian Dental Association has introduced ‘Tooth Erosion’ as the primary focus of Dental Health Week for 2010.
And Western District Health Service Dental Therapist, Joanne Nelson is taking the opportunity to stress the importance of awareness in relation to the subject.....more>


Health Safety Checks with Taylor Motors

WDHS & Taylor Motors joined forces to promote Work Health Checks at Sheepvention
1 August 2010

During two busy days at Sheepvention this year, 270 people participated in free health checks at the WDHS site.

Western District Health Service with support from Taylor Motors Hamilton offered the Victorian State Government funded WorkHealth Checks at Sheepvention this year....more>

Op Shop Ladies with videocolonoscope

 

Op Shop supports hospital’s move into digital age
19 July 2010

The clothes are sold at the some of the cheapest prices going around, but the volunteers who run the Hospital Opportunity Shop have obviously been working overtime. Last month they were able to present a cheque to Western District Chief Executive Officer Mr Jim Fletcher  for an extraordinary $36,000 to purchase a high definition videocolonoscope ....more>


TOTT Ticket Winners

Winners are grinners
19 July 2010

The Top of the Town Ball committee has announced the ten lucky people from the local community who are the winners of double tickets to this years’ Top of the Town Ball. ....more>


Jenny Jensz

 

Jenny retires after 40 years of service
7 July 2010

Western District Health Service has bid a fond farewell to long serving employee  Ms Jenny Jensz this month.  Jenny has retired from her role as a nurse in the surgical unit and  Lymphoedema nurse at Hamilton Base Hospital after 40 years of service....more>


Sunroom Photo

 

A little ray of sunshine
22 June 2010

There are many outdoor areas which are sometimes underutilised within the Hamilton Base Hospital, and during his recent stint  with the rehabilitation and  long stay older patient programs, Division One nurse Mark Atcheson came across an outdoor sunroom located just outside the rehabilitation area....more>


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