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NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1993 NO. 85
EXPLANATORY STATEMENTSTATUTORY RULES 1993 No. 85
Issued by Authority of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Community Services
National Health Act 1953
National Health Regulations (Amendment)
Subsection 140(1) of the National Health Act 1953 (the Act) enables the GovernorGeneral to make regulations, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, including the prescribing of nursing homes as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purposes of section 4AAAA of the Act.
A number of government nursing homes in Victoria are to be prescribed as adjusted fee government nursing homes under the the Act.
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. The Government has announced its intention that government nursing homes be brought into the care aggregated module (CAM) funding system which applies to privately operated 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.
It is proposed that groups of government nursing homes throughout Australia will progressively be 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.
On the 1 June 1993, a second group of government nursing homes in Victoria will become adjusted fee government nursing homes.
Accordingly, the Regulations prescribe the following government nursing homes in Victoria as adjusted fee government nursing homes from 1 June 1993:
Name
& Address of Nursing Home The Queen Elizabeth Centre 102 Ascot Street Ballarat, Victoria, 3350 Ovens and Murray Nursing Home Warner Road Beechworth, Victoria, 3747 Wangaratta and District Nursing Home Green Street Wangaratta, Victoria, 3677 Bairnsdale Regional Health Service McKean Street Bairnsdale, Victoria, 3875 Evelyn Wilson Nursing Home 183 MacAlister Street Sale, Victoria, 3850 Latrobe Valley Nursing Home Ollerton Avenue Moe, Victoria, 3825 St Hilary's Nursing Home 16 Elgin Street Morwell, Victoria, 3840 Central Gippsland Nursing Home Garden Grove Traralgon, Victoria, 3844 West Gippsland Nursing Home Landsborough Road Warragul, Victoria, 3820 Bacchus Marsh and District Nursing Home 123 Clarinda Street Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, 3340 Hazledean Nursing Home 211 Osborne Street Williamstown, Victoria, 3016 Caulfield Hospital Nursing Home 294 Kooyong Road Caulfield, Victoria, 3162 Westernport Nursing Home Rossiter Road Koo-wee-rup, Victoria, 3981 S C Crabham Nursing Home Graham Street Wonthaggi, Victoria, 3995
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Approval No. 3422S 3421S 3457S 3408S 3475S 3493S 4410S 3432S 3473S 3444S 3459S 3433S 3443S 3491S
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The Regulations will commence on 1 June 1993.