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Please read signage and follow directions from staff as access points have altered.

To protect the safety of our staff, residents, and the community from the COVID-19 virus, we are maintaining access restrictions that were implemented in March.

New, improved, and expanded services are available to Victorian carers. As of Monday 6 April, a consortium of Victorian health providers will offer free, early intervention support under the brand Carer Gateway, in an effort to avoid carers reaching a crisis point.

This video update covers elective surgery, aged care residential visitor restrictions, and presentations to our Emergency Department

THANK YOU FOR BEING TESTED! Over the last seven days, we have seen the Ballarat community get behind the government’s testing blitz.

We have tested over 500 people in Ballarat today after opening a pop-up testing site for asymptomatic (no symptoms) members of the general public.

Together we are working to get the evidence we need to understand the health of our community. And yesterday the community participated in a phenomenal 920 tests for COVID-19 across Ballarat.

The Ballarat community has shown amazing support of the state government's testing blitz, smashing expectations on test numbers of out of the water.

Ballarat Health Services is providing a pop-up clinic for staff from local schools to be tested for COVID-19 before students return to on-site learning.

This National Volunteer Week, Ballarat Health Services has launched Scrubs for Staff, a volunteer initiative to make 500 sets of new scrubs for Ballarat Hospital frontline workers.

International Clinical Trials Day is a time to pause and reflect on the efforts of those working in medical research, the need to identify patients to participate in trials, and why funding to support research is so important.

Ballarat Health Services have announced new visitor restrictions to protect residents, patients, staff and the wider community during the COVID-19 pandemic, effective from Tuesday 19 May.

Ballarat Health Services Dental Clinic remains open to provide emergency or urgent care for dental treatments relating to pain management.

Ballarat Health Services is looking to broaden the community’s understanding of palliative care under the theme of ‘Palliative Care… It’s more than you think!’ this National Palliative Care Week.

The Hepburn Shire Regional Assessment Service will transition to Ballarat Health Services from 1 July 2020.

This Men’s Health Week, Ballarat Health Services has released a new online platform to encourage local men to look after their mental and physical health.

BHS Executive Director of Acute Operations Ben Kelly updates the Ballarat community on ways that we can stop the spread, visitor restrictions to BHS sites, resources for non-emergency illness or injury, where to find the most recent COVID-19 information and where to be tested.

Once again, the COVID-19 situation is rapidly evolving. As such, please ensure you understand the important changes that have been implemented at Ballarat Health Services this week.

Earlier this week Ballarat Health Services introduced the use of masks to further protect the most vulnerable members of our community – our patients and residents.

The DHHS has confirmed today that Ballarat has four more cases of coronavirus, a reminder for all of us that the challenge of COVID-19 remains in our community. We can confirm that a Ballarat Health Services staff member of Ballarat Aged Care has tested positive to COVID.