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NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 201

STATUTORY RULES 1994 No. 201

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 GovernorGeneral may make regulations, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed.

A number of government nursing homes 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 and 1 May and 1 June 1994. This amended regulation is to prescribe an additional group of government nursing homes in Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory 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, a fifth group in Tasmania on 1 May 1994 and a sixth group in Victoria on 1 June 1994.

The purpose of the National Health Regulations (Amendment) is to prescribe a seventh group of government nursing homes, namely 44 nursing homes in Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as adjusted fee government nursing homes with effect from 1 July 1994. This will complete the transfer of homes in Victoria and the ACT to the adjusted fee government nursing home arrangements. 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.

In addition, it is necessary to amend the Schedule to allocate a new approval number to Spencer Nursing Home in Tasmania for accountability purposes. This home is an existing adjusted fee government nursing home which transferred to private sector ownership on 16 May 1994. The new number is allocated retrospectively from that date.

The Regulations commenced on 1 July 1994.

ATTACHMENT

VICTORIA

Name & Address of Nursing Home		Approval No.
Ararat and District Hospital
John Pickford House
Girdlestone Street
ARARAT, 3377		3476S
Camperdown District Hospital
Nursing Home Unit
York Street
CAMPERDOWN, 3260		3461S
Casterton Memorial Hospital
Nursing Home
Mt Gambier Road
CASTERTON, 3311		3495S
Caulfield Hospital
Infirm Section
Wards 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14
294 Kooyong Road
CAULFIELD, 3162		4452S
The Clunes and District Hospital
The Clunes and District Nursing Home
Ballarat Road
CLUNES, 3370		4388S
Coleraine and District Nursing Home
McKebery Street
COLERAINE, 3315		4406S
Dimboola District Hospital
Nursing Home Unit
156-158 Lloyd Street
DIMBOOLA, 3414		3481S
Donald and District Hospital
Donald and District Nursing Home
Aitken Avenue
DONALD, 3480		4364S
Dumunkle - Rupanyup Hospital
Rupanyup District Nursing Home
89 Cromie Street
Eastern Suburbs Geriatric Centre
Cnr Mahoney's Road
and Burwood Highway
BURWOOD EAST, 3151		4408S
Edenhope District Hospital
Kowree Nursing Home Unit
128-132 Elizabeth Street
EDENHOPE, 3318		3498S
Elanora Home and Hospital
for the Aged
East, West, Centre and John Grant
East Wings
7 Mair Street
BRIGHTON BEACH, 3188		3404S
George Vowell Home for the Blind
Cnr Nepean Highway and Cobb Road
MT ELIZA, 3930		3494S
Gippsland South Health Service
Korumburra Campus
Bridge Road
KORUMBURRA, 3950		3485S
Gippsland South Health Service
Leongatha Campus
Koonwarra Road
LEONGATHA, 3953		3419S
Heywood Nursing Home
21 Barclay Street
WEST HEYWOOD, 3304		4412S
Jeparit and District Hospital
Jeparit and District Nursing Home
Edith Street
JEPARIT, 3434		4382S
Kaniva District Hospital
Archie Gray Nursing Home Unit
Roache Street
KANIVA, 3419		4365S
Kelaston Home for the Blind
Rooms 1 to 20
1300 Howitt Street
WENDOUREE, 3355		3438S
Kingston Centre
South 1, 2, 3, 5 North 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13 and 14
Cnr Kingston and Warrigal Roads
CHELTENHAM, 3192		4453S
Kingston Centre
Yarraman Nursing Home
Yarraman Road
NOBLE PARK, 3174		4439S
Koroit and District Hospital
Nursing Home Annexe
Mills Street
KOROIT, 3282		4403S
Lismore and District Hospital
Nursing Home Annexe
High Street
LISMORE, 3324		4404S
Lorne Community Hospital
Lorne Nursing Home
Lot 1 Albert Street
LORNE, 3232		4368S
Macarthur Nursing Home
12 Archonachie Street
MACARTHUR, 3286		4411S
Maffra District Hospital
J H F McDonald Wing
48 Kent Street
MAFFRA, 3860		3462S
Mirridong Home for Aged Blind
Beds 24-28 and 31-63 inclusive
McIvor Road
BENDIGO, 3550		3439S
Mt Eliza Centre
Carinya Nursing Home
Golf Links Road
FRANKSTON, 3199		4434S
Nhill Hospital
Mira Nursing Home
51 Nelson Street
NHILL, 3418		3474S
Northwest Hospital
- McLellan House
Psychogeriatric Nursing Home
22-26 Robinson Street
JACANA, 3047		4396S
Northwest Hospital
- Weighbridge
Psychogeriatric Nursing Home
72 Ascot Vale Road
FLEMINGTON, 3031		4405S
Omeo Hospital
Nursing Home Unit
Eastern Street
OMEO, 3898		4461S
Penshurst Nursing Home
W J Lewis Wing
Watton Street
PENSHURST, 3289		4392S
Portland and District Hospital
Seymour Cundy Wing
Bentinck Street
PORTLAND, 3305		3467S
Queen Elizabeth Centre
Ripon Peace Memorial Hospital
Havelock Street
BEAUFORT, 3373		4468S
Queen Elizabeth Centre
P S Hobson Nursing Home
Gillies Street
WENDOUREE, 3355		4459S
Stawell and District Hospital
W H Syme and H and F Perry Wings
Sloan Street
STAWELL, 3380		3480S
Terang and District Community
Hospital
Norah Cosgrove Nursing Home
1 Austin Avenue
TERANG, 3264		4391S
Warracknabeal and District Hospital
JR and AE Landt Trust Nursing Home
Dimboola Road
WARRACKNABEAL, 3393		3488S
Western Hospital - Westside Lodge
Psychogeriatric Nursing Home
Santiago Street
ST ALBANS, 3021		4394S
Willaura and District Hospital
Nursing Home Unit
Delacombe Way
WILLAURA, 3291		4387S
Yarram and District Nursing Home
85 Commercial Road
YARRAM, 3971		4443S
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Jindalee Nursing Home
Goyder Street
NARRABUNDAH, 2604		2982S
TASMANIA
Spencer Nursing Home		8419S
Coldie Street
WYNYARD, 7325