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Organisational Objectives<br />

Mission Statement<br />

The Yarram and District Health Service seeks to maintain and<br />

enhance the health of the community through the provision of<br />

quality care that is cost effective, efficient, equitable and<br />

consumer focussed.<br />

Vision<br />

The vision for the Yarram and District Health Service is to be<br />

an effective, community based service.<br />

Core Values<br />

The Yarram and District Health Service regards caring,<br />

integrity, quality, professionalism and cost effectiveness as<br />

being its core values.<br />

Objectives<br />

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To provide health care services capable of delivering a<br />

continuum of care to our community<br />

To continually improve quality service delivery<br />

To provide services that promote health improvement and<br />

prevention of illness<br />

To respond to the health care needs of the community<br />

through the ongoing process of consultation and planning<br />

To communicate all services to our community<br />

Introduction<br />

The Yarram and District Health Service is located 220<br />

kilometres south east of Melbourne on the South Gippsland<br />

Highway in Wellington Shire, approximately one hour’s drive<br />

time south west of Sale and 50 minutes drive time south east<br />

of Traralgon.<br />

The township of Yarram is the principal service centre of the<br />

area and services an area of approximately 1840 square<br />

kilometres with a catchment population of 5,580.<br />

The Health Service originally commenced operation as the<br />

Yarram and District Hospital, which was inaugurated on 1<br />

January 1912 and admitted its first patient in January 1917. In<br />

1993, the hospital name was changed to the Yarram and<br />

District Health Service to reflect its evolution into a multi<br />

purpose service, more appropriately positioned to meet the<br />

needs of the wider community.<br />

The Yarram and District Health Service now operates under<br />

the DHS Small Rural Health Services program and provides a<br />

comprehensive range of primary care services. Following<br />

extensive expansion and refurbishment during 2003 and<br />

officially opened in April 2004, it also now accommodates 20<br />

acute beds and 15 high and 15 low aged care beds.<br />

In 2004 Yarram and District Health Service assumed<br />

management of a 30 bed aged care hostel, Crossley House,<br />

adjacent to the Health Service.<br />

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Yarram and District Health Service <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2006</strong>

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