Commonwealth Numbered Regulations - Explanatory Statements

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NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 139

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1994 No. 139

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 Governor-General may make regulations, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed

A number of government nursing homes in Victoria 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. This amended regulation is to prescribe an additional group of Victorian government nursing homes 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 and a fifth group in Tasmania on 1 May 1994.

The purpose of the National Health Regulations (Amendment) is to prescribe a sixth group of government nursing homes, namely 30 nursing homes in Victoria, as adjusted fee government nursing homes with effect from 1 June 1994. 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.

A special consideration that should be noted in the regulations is that Mildura Base Nursing Home, previously prescribed as No 12 in part B of Schedule 5 (1 May 1993), was split into two separate homes as of 1 November 1993, Rachael Willson House (No 341 of Part 3 of the Schedule) and Fisher House (No 318 of Part 3 of the Schedule). Since then the Department has received advice that these homes now wish to remain one home. Mildura Base Nursing Home has been restored to the Schedule and the prescription of Fisher House and Rachael Willson House has been nullified.

The Regulations commenced on 1 June 1994.

ATTACHMENT

Name & Address of Nursing Home

Approval No.


Boort & District Hospital



Nursing Home



Kiniry Street



BOORT, 3537

4400S


Cohuna District Hospital



Cohuna District Nursing Home



144-158 King Street



COHUNA, 3568

4371S


Rochester & Elmore District



Health Service



Elmore Nursing Home Annexe



Jeffrey Street



ELMORE, 3558

4398S


Heathcote & District



Hospital



Nursing Home



39 Hospital Street



HEATHCOTE, 3523

4399S


Inglewood District Hospital



Nursing Home Unit



Hospital Street



INGLEWOOD, 3517

3492S


Kerang & District Hospital



Glenarm Wing



Burgayne Street



KERANG, 3579

3486S


Kyneton District Hospital



Thomas Hogan Wing



Simpson Street



KYNETON, 3444

3496S


Manangatang & District



Hospital



Nursing Home Unit



Pioneer Street



MANANGATANG,

3546

4415S

Maryborough District Health Service



Dunolly Nursing Home



Havelock Street



DUNOLLY, 3472

4402S


Maryborough District Health Service



Nursing Home Unit



Clarendon Street



MARYBOROUGH, 3465

3468S


Ouyen & District Hospital



Canon T Martin Wing



Britt Street



OUYEN, 3490

3500S


Mildura Base Hospital



Red Cliffs - Nursing Home Unit



39 Jamieson Avenue



RED CLIFFS, 3496

3451S


Mildura Base Hospital



Robinvale - Nursing Home Unit



Latje Road



ROBINVALE, 3549

4385S


Maldon District Hospital



Nursing Home Unit



Chapel Street



MALDON, 3463

3484S


Rochester & Elmore District



Health Service



Rochester Nursing Home Annexe



Pascoe Street



ROCHESTER, 3561

3405S


St Arnaud District Hospital



Nursing Home Unit



North Western Road



ST ARNAUD, 3478

3477S


Wycheproof Hospital



Nursing Home Section



Grandview Street



WYCHEPROOF,

3527

3490S

Benalla & District Memorial Hospital        



Morrie Evans Wing



Coster Street



BENALLA, 3672

3470S


Cobram & District Hospital



Irvin House



Broadway Street



COBRAM, 3644

3487S


Glenview Community Care



Nursing Home



High Street



RUTHERGLEN, 3685

4393S


Goulburn Valley Base Hospital



Tatura Nursing Home



Park Street



TATURA, 3616

3464S


Goulburn Valley Base Hospital



Nathalia & District Nursing Home



Elizabeth Street



NATHALIA, 3638

3411S


Goulburn Valley Base Hospital



Waranga District Nursing Home



Coyle Street



RUSHWORTH, 3612

3402S


Kyabram Nursing Home



A G Hutchinson and



T J Tehan Wings



Fenaughty Street



KYABRAM, 3620

3455S


Mansfield District Hospital



Bentley House



Highett Street



MANSFIELD, 3722

3478S


Myrtleford District Hospital



Barwidge Lodge



30 O'Donnell Avenue



MYRTLEFORD,

3737

3426S

Seymour District Hospital



Nursing Home Unit



Brettoneaux Street



SEYMOUR, 3660

3489S


Tallangatta Hospital



Nursing Home Annexe



Barree Street



TALLANGATTA, 3700

4397S


Tawonga District General Hospital



Kiewa Valley House



Holland Street



MT BEAUTY, 3699

4377S


Yea & District Hospital



Rosebank Nursing Home



45 Station Street



YEA, 3717

4380S


Mildura Base Nursing Home



Thirteenth Street



MILDURA, 3500

3454S



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