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Grampians Health is playing a key role in a new national research project aimed at addressing a critical gap in cancer care. People living in rural and remote Australia experience poorer cancer outcomes compared to those in metropolitan areas, yet no dedicated optimal care pathway exists for this priority population.

Grampians Health Cancer Wellness Centre has again received a welcome boost, with a $10,000 donation from Camp 4 Cancer to help enhance care and support services for people affected by cancer.

Residents at the Grampians Health Care Community, James Thomas Court in Sebastopol, are embracing a new way to support their wellbeing, through Virtual Reality (VR) Goggles. A recent trial of the technology has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from both residents and staff, highlighting its potential to enrich daily life in aged care.

Grampians Health welcomed the Victorian Minister for Health Infrastructure Melissa Horne onsite yesterday to inspect progress of the $655 million Ballarat Base Hospital Redevelopment – Ballarat’s biggest infrastructure project.

Two Grampians Health team members training to become nurses have won highly coveted scholarships from the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Horsham Enrolled Nurse Tammy McDonald and Ballarat Program Assistant Chloe James both won the scholarships to support their nursing studies. Adding to their achievement is the fact that only four scholarships were awarded to nurse trainees in Victoria for 2025.

Helping to stop the spread of coronavirus is something that we can all do. Watch this video for practical tips.

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.