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NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1993 NO. 85

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY 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

Approval No.     
3422S


3421S


3457S


3408S


3475S


3493S


4410S


3432S


3473S


3444S


3459S


3433S


3443S


3491S

The Regulations will commence on 1 June 1993.


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