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NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1993 NO. 153

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1993 No. 153

Issued by Authority of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Community Services

National Health Act 1953

National Health Regulations (Amendment)

Subsection 140(1) of the National Health Act 1953 (the Act) enables the GovernorGeneral to make regulations, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed.

A number of government nursing homes in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania are to be prescribed as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purposes of section 4AAAA of the Act.

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. The Government has announced its intention that government nursing homes be brought into the care aggregated module (CAM) funding system which applies to privately operated 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.

It is proposed that groups of government nursing homes throughout Australia will be 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, followed by another group in Victoria on 1 June 1993.

On 1 July 1993, a third group of government nursing homes will become adjusted fee government nursing homes. The nursing homes are in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.

Accordingly, the Regulations prescribe the following government nursing homes as adjusted fee government nursing homes from 1 July 1993:

Name & Address of Nursing Home

Tregenza Avenue Aged Care Service
21 Tregenza Avenue
Elizabeth South, South Australia, 5112         
Windana Nursing Home
56 Pleasant Avenue
Glandore, South Australia, 5037
Julia Farr Centre
103 Fisher Street
Fullarton, South Australia, 5063
Toosey Nursing Home
Archer Street
Longford, Tasmania, 7301
James Scott Nursing Home
North East Soldiers Memorial Hospital      
8 Cameron Street
Scottsdale, Tasmania, 7260
Allambi Special Care Unit
Howick Street
Launceston, Tasmania, 7250
Spencer Nursing Home
Wynyard, Tasmania, 7325
Smithton Nursing Home
Bass Highway
Smithton, Tasmania, 7330
Karingal Nursing Home
Lovett Street
Devonport, Tasmania, 7310
Carruthers Nursing Home
St John's Park
St John's Avenue
New Town, Tasmania, 7008
Camelia Nursing Home
St John's Park
St John's Avenue
New Town, Tasmania, 7008
Ouse Nursing Home
St John's Park
St John's Avenue
New Town, Tasmania, 7008
Port Fairy Nursing Home
Villiers Street
Port Fairy, Victoria, 3284
Anne Caudle Centre
100-104 Barnard Street
Bendigo, Victoria, 3550
Mooroopna Geriatric Nursing Home
McLennan Street
Mooroopna, Victoria, 3629
Kingston Centre Nursing Home
Cnr Kingston & Warrigal Roads
Cheltenham, Victoria, 3192
Northwest Hospital - Greenvale Campus
Providence Road
Greenvale, Victoria, 3059
Northwest Hospital - Mt Royal Campus        
Poplar Road
Parkville, Victoria, 3052
Victoria Parade Geriatric Centre
45 Victoria Parade
Collingwood, Victoria, 3066
Mt Eliza Geriatric Nursing Home
Jacksons Road
Mt Eliza, Victoria, 3930
Baala House Nursing Home
Katamatite Road
Numurkah, Victoria, 3636
Yarrawonga Nursing Home
Piper Street
Yarrawonga, Victoria, 3730


Approval No.       

6403S


6409S


6402S


8409S


8412S



8414S


8404S

8407S


8418S


8415S



8416S



8417S



4449S


3403S


3458S


3417S


3410S


3420S


3441S


3445S


3499S


3482S

The Regulations will commence on 1 July 1993.


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