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NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1993 NO. 48

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1993 No. 48

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 Governor-General to make regulations, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, including the prescribing of nursing homes as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purposes of section 4AAAA of the Act.

A number of government nursing homes in Victoria are to be prescribed as adjusted fee government nursing homes under the 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.

On 1 May 1993, a number of government nursing homes in Victoria will become adjusted fee government nursing homes.

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

Name & Address of Nursing Home
Polworth House
Corangamite Street
COLAC VIC 3250
Grace McKellar House
45-95 Ballarat Road
NORTH GEELONG VIC 3215
South Barwon Nursing Home
17-25 Colac Road
BELMONT VIC 3216
Lyndoch Nursing Home
Hopkins Road
WARRNAMBOOL VIC 3280
Corio House Nursing Home
Nelson Street
WARRNAMBOOL VIC 3280
Jack Lonsdale Lodge
Morgan Street
SEBASTAPOL VIC 3356
Swan Hill District Nursing Home
Splatt Street
SWAN HILL VIC 3585
Wimmera Base Nursing Home
Baillie Street
HORSHAM VIC 3400
Hamilton Base Hospital Nursing Home
Foster Street
HAMILTON VIC 3300
Lumeah Nursing Home
Echuca District Hospital
9-27 Francis Street
ECHUCA VIC 3564
Mildura Base Nursing Home
Thirteenth Street
MILDURA VIC 3500
Mt Alexander Hospital Nursing Home Unit            
Cornish Street
CASTLEMAINE VIC 3450

Approval No.
3466S


3409S


4445S


3460S


3407S


4414S


3483S


3465S


3472S


3469S



3454S


3401S

The Regulations will commence an 1 May 1993.


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