Welcome to the official Alpine Health page. This page is designed to connect the communities of the Alpine Shire, and to share interesting and useful information and events around health and wellbeing.
Alpine Health is the lead health service organisation in Victoria’s Alpine Valleys with three main sites located in the townships of Bright, Mount Beauty and Myrtleford.
We are a designated Multi-Purpose Service (MPS) under a Tripartite Commonwealth-State Government Agreement and the largest of 128 Multi-Purpose Health Services across Australia, providing integrated health services including acute hospital care, residential and community aged care, primary care community services and early intervention programs. Alpine Health also provides health workforce training and education services through our training institution, the Alpine Institute.
VISION: to strive as far as possible to deliver local services for local people where they live.
PURPOSE: to improve the health and well being of people in the Alpine Shire.
Our Service Philosophy
At Alpine Health, all our actions and decisions are guided by the following principles:
We recognise the rights, dignity and independence of our clients;
We recognise that individuals are primarily responsible for improving their own health and well-being;
We offer service options and choices to people;
Wherever possible, home service delivery options are preferred over institutional delivery options;
Local service delivery is preferred over distant service delivery;
We talk to our communities where they are, listen to and respect what they have to say;
Responsiveness to the needs of individuals is paramount.
Hospital Services
Alpine Health provides basic hospital services from 3 hospital sites:
• Bright District Hospital (9 beds)
• Mount Beauty District Hospital (10 beds)
• Myrtleford District War Memorial Hospital (15 beds)
Inpatient services provide care for medical, post-surgical inpatients, renal dialysis and minor, low risk procedures.
Urgent Care Services:
Alpine Health provides an Urgent Care Service at each of its three core locations (Myrtleford, Bright and Mt Beauty). Services are provided a 24 hour per day 7 days per week. This service is primarily provides treatment for conditions requiring urgent attention. Attendance by a Doctor for all urgent presentations is at the discretion of the on-call Doctor. In other cases, treatment and care is provided by a Nurse or referred to another facility, depending on the level of urgency. (Northeast Health Wangaratta or Albury/Wodonga Health in Wodonga). All patients attended to by a Doctor within the Urgent Care Service, are treated as private patients of that Doctor for that occasion of care.
Day Surgery (Peri-operative) Services
Renal Dialysis Services
Community Services
• Diabetes education
• District Nursing Service (including ‘Hospital in the Home’ post-acute care service)
• Community Aged Care Packages
• Alpine Leisure Groups
• Palliative Care Volunteer Service
• Health Promotion
• Youth Services (counselling and youth work)
• Support for Volunteer services
• Dietetics
• McGrath IGA Breast Care Nurse
Residential Aged Care
Residential aged care services are available in each of the 3 major townships in Alpine Shire as follows:
Bright:
• Bright District Hospital - offers limited ‘high care’ residential aged care services
• Hawthorn Village - 40 room residential aged care hostel facility offering low/high care service.
• Hawthorn Close – 6 single bedroom independent living units.
Mount Beauty:
• Kiewa Valley House - 20 bed ‘high care’ residential facility and community services.
Myrtleford:
• Barwidgee Lodge - 28 ‘high care’ residential beds and community services.
• QE II – 8 single bedroom independent living units.
Please visit www.alpinehealth.org.au for more information on all the above services
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Contact us:
Website: www.alpinehealth.org.au
Alpine Health Myrtleford
30 O'Donnell Avenue, Myrtleford 3736
Administration (03) 5751 9344
Fax: (03) 5751 9396
Hospital (03) 5751 9300
Barwidgee Lodge (03) 5751 9335
Alpine Health Bright
32-36 Cobden Street, Bright VIC 3741
Hospital (03) 5755 0100
Fax: (03) 5755 2110
Hawthorn Village
1 Rotary Drive, Bright VIC 3741
(03) 5755 0150
Fax: (03) 5750 1668
Alpine Community Health (03) 5755 0123
Fax: (03) 5755 0125
Alpine Health Mount Beauty
2-8 Hollonds Street, Mt Beauty VIC 3699
Hospital (03) 5754 3500
Fax: (03) 5754 3554
Alpine Leisure Group (03) 5754 3530
