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NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 201
EXPLANATORY STATEMENTSTATUTORY RULES 1994 No. 201
Issued by Authority of the Minister for Human Services and Health
National Health Act 1953
National Health Regulations (Amendment)
Subsection 140(1) of the National Health Act 1953 (the Act) provides that the GovernorGeneral may make regulations, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed.
A number of government nursing homes have previously been prescribed by regulation as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purposes of section 4AAAA of the Act on 1 May, 1 June, 1 July and 1 November 1993 and 1 May and 1 June 1994. This amended regulation is to prescribe an additional group of government nursing homes in Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as adjusted fee government nursing homes.
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. In the 1992 Federal Budget, the Government announced its intention that government nursing homes be brought into the care aggregated module (CAM) funding system which applies only to privately operated nursing homes 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.
Groups of government nursing homes throughout Australia have been 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. This was followed by a second group of nursing homes in Victoria on 1 June 1993, the third group in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania on 1 July 1993, a fourth group in Victoria on 1 November 1993, a fifth group in Tasmania on 1 May 1994 and a sixth group in Victoria on 1 June 1994.
The purpose of the National Health Regulations (Amendment) is to prescribe a seventh group of government nursing homes, namely 44 nursing homes in Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as adjusted fee government nursing homes with effect from 1 July 1994. This will complete the transfer of homes in Victoria and the ACT to the adjusted fee government nursing home arrangements. The nursing homes prescribed are set out in the Attachment. The regulations also omit the current Schedule 5 (list of adjusted fee government nursing homes) and substitute a new Schedule 5 which consolidates the list of all adjusted fee government nursing homes.
In addition, it is necessary to amend the Schedule to allocate a new approval number to Spencer Nursing Home in Tasmania for accountability purposes. This home is an existing adjusted fee government nursing home which transferred to private sector ownership on 16 May 1994. The new number is allocated retrospectively from that date.
The Regulations commenced on 1 July 1994.
ATTACHMENT
VICTORIA
Name
& Address of Nursing Home
|
Approval No.
| |
Ararat
and District Hospital
|
||
John
Pickford House
|
||
Girdlestone
Street
|
||
ARARAT,
3377
|
|
3476S
|
Camperdown
District Hospital
|
||
Nursing
Home Unit
|
||
York
Street
|
||
CAMPERDOWN,
3260
|
3461S
| |
Casterton
Memorial Hospital
|
||
Nursing
Home
|
||
Mt
Gambier Road
|
||
CASTERTON,
3311
|
3495S
| |
Caulfield
Hospital
|
||
Infirm
Section
|
||
Wards
8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14
|
||
294
Kooyong Road
|
||
CAULFIELD,
3162
|
4452S
| |
The
Clunes and District Hospital
|
||
The
Clunes and District Nursing Home
|
||
Ballarat
Road
|
||
CLUNES,
3370
|
4388S
| |
Coleraine
and District Nursing Home
|
||
McKebery
Street
|
||
COLERAINE,
3315
|
4406S
| |
Dimboola
District Hospital
|
||
Nursing
Home Unit
|
||
156-158
Lloyd Street
|
||
DIMBOOLA,
3414
|
3481S
| |
Donald
and District Hospital
|
||
Donald
and District Nursing Home
|
||
Aitken
Avenue
|
||
DONALD,
3480
|
4364S
| |
Dumunkle
- Rupanyup Hospital
|
||
Rupanyup
District Nursing Home
|
||
89
Cromie Street
|
||
Eastern
Suburbs Geriatric Centre
|
||
Cnr
Mahoney's Road
|
||
and
Burwood Highway
|
||
BURWOOD
EAST, 3151
|
4408S
| |
Edenhope
District Hospital
|
||
Kowree
Nursing Home Unit
|
||
128-132
Elizabeth Street
|
||
EDENHOPE,
3318
|
3498S
| |
Elanora
Home and Hospital
|
||
for
the Aged
|
||
East,
West, Centre and John Grant
|
||
East
Wings
|
||
7
Mair Street
|
||
BRIGHTON
BEACH, 3188
|
3404S
| |
George
Vowell Home for the Blind
|
||
Cnr
Nepean Highway and Cobb Road
|
||
MT
ELIZA, 3930
|
3494S
| |
Gippsland
South Health Service
|
||
Korumburra
Campus
|
||
Bridge
Road
|
||
KORUMBURRA,
3950
|
3485S
| |
Gippsland
South Health Service
|
||
Leongatha
Campus
|
||
Koonwarra
Road
|
||
LEONGATHA,
3953
|
3419S
| |
Heywood
Nursing Home
|
||
21
Barclay Street
|
||
WEST
HEYWOOD, 3304
|
4412S
| |
Jeparit
and District Hospital
|
||
Jeparit
and District Nursing Home
|
||
Edith
Street
|
||
JEPARIT,
3434
|
4382S
| |
Kaniva
District Hospital
|
||
Archie
Gray Nursing Home Unit
|
||
Roache
Street
|
||
KANIVA,
3419
|
4365S
| |
Kelaston
Home for the Blind
|
||
Rooms
1 to 20
|
||
1300
Howitt Street
|
||
WENDOUREE,
3355
|
3438S
| |
Kingston
Centre
|
||
South
1, 2, 3, 5 North 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13 and 14
|
||
Cnr
Kingston and Warrigal Roads
|
||
CHELTENHAM,
3192
|
4453S
| |
Kingston
Centre
|
||
Yarraman
Nursing Home
|
||
Yarraman
Road
|
||
NOBLE
PARK, 3174
|
4439S
| |
Koroit
and District Hospital
|
||
Nursing
Home Annexe
|
||
Mills
Street
|
||
KOROIT,
3282
|
4403S
| |
Lismore
and District Hospital
|
||
Nursing
Home Annexe
|
||
High
Street
|
||
LISMORE,
3324
|
4404S
| |
Lorne
Community Hospital
|
||
Lorne
Nursing Home
|
||
Lot
1 Albert Street
|
||
LORNE,
3232
|
4368S
| |
Macarthur
Nursing Home
|
||
12
Archonachie Street
|
||
MACARTHUR,
3286
|
4411S
| |
Maffra
District Hospital
|
||
J
H F McDonald Wing
|
||
48
Kent Street
|
||
MAFFRA,
3860
|
3462S
| |
Mirridong
Home for Aged Blind
|
||
Beds
24-28 and 31-63 inclusive
|
||
McIvor
Road
|
||
BENDIGO,
3550
|
3439S
| |
Mt
Eliza Centre
|
||
Carinya
Nursing Home
|
||
Golf
Links Road
|
||
FRANKSTON,
3199
|
4434S
| |
Nhill
Hospital
|
||
Mira
Nursing Home
|
||
51
Nelson Street
|
||
NHILL,
3418
|
3474S
| |
Northwest
Hospital
|
||
-
McLellan House
|
||
Psychogeriatric
Nursing Home
|
||
22-26
Robinson Street
|
||
JACANA,
3047
|
4396S
| |
Northwest
Hospital
|
||
-
Weighbridge
|
||
Psychogeriatric
Nursing Home
|
||
72
Ascot Vale Road
|
||
FLEMINGTON,
3031
|
4405S
| |
Omeo
Hospital
|
||
Nursing
Home Unit
|
||
Eastern
Street
|
||
OMEO,
3898
|
4461S
| |
Penshurst
Nursing Home
|
||
W
J Lewis Wing
|
||
Watton
Street
|
||
PENSHURST,
3289
|
4392S
| |
Portland
and District Hospital
|
||
Seymour
Cundy Wing
|
||
Bentinck
Street
|
||
PORTLAND,
3305
|
3467S
| |
Queen
Elizabeth Centre
|
||
Ripon
Peace Memorial Hospital
|
||
Havelock
Street
|
||
BEAUFORT,
3373
|
4468S
| |
Queen
Elizabeth Centre
|
||
P
S Hobson Nursing Home
|
||
Gillies
Street
|
||
WENDOUREE,
3355
|
4459S
| |
Stawell
and District Hospital
|
||
W
H Syme and H and F Perry Wings
|
||
Sloan
Street
|
||
STAWELL,
3380
|
3480S
| |
Terang
and District Community
|
||
Hospital
|
||
Norah
Cosgrove Nursing Home
|
||
1
Austin Avenue
|
||
TERANG,
3264
|
4391S
| |
Warracknabeal
and District Hospital
|
||
JR
and AE Landt Trust Nursing Home
|
||
Dimboola
Road
|
||
WARRACKNABEAL,
3393
|
3488S
| |
Western
Hospital - Westside Lodge
|
||
Psychogeriatric
Nursing Home
|
||
Santiago
Street
|
||
ST
ALBANS, 3021
|
4394S
| |
Willaura
and District Hospital
|
||
Nursing
Home Unit
|
||
Delacombe
Way
|
||
WILLAURA,
3291
|
4387S
| |
Yarram
and District Nursing Home
|
||
85
Commercial Road
|
||
YARRAM,
3971
|
4443S
| |
AUSTRALIAN
CAPITAL TERRITORY
|
||
Jindalee
Nursing Home
|
||
Goyder
Street
|
||
NARRABUNDAH,
2604
|
2982S
| |
TASMANIA
|
||
Spencer
Nursing Home
|
8419S
| |
Coldie
Street
|
||
WYNYARD,
7325
|