Wimmera Hospice Care Trust Donation

Last financial year, Wimmera Hospice Care supported 112 people, their families and carers. Wimmera Health Care Group chief executive Chris Scott said that daunting figure shows how important the service is, and why it is going to be an integral part of...

Wimmera Hospice Care - RN Grade 3B

32 hours per week Monday – Friday 8.30-5pm Wimmera Hospice Care is the specialist palliative care service for the Wimmera region. An opportunity exists for a suitably qualified Registered Nurse to join the Wimmera Hospice Care team. The purpose of this...

Scholarship on offer

Wimmera Hospice Care Trust is calling for applications for their nursing scholarship. Hospice Trustee Dr John Nunn said the $1000 scholarship was launched last year to help a division one registered nurse in the area served by Wimmera Hospice Care to...

Quilt Extravaganza

The Wimmera Hospice Care Auxiliary has grand plans for their ‘Quilt Extravaganza’ but they need help from the Wimmera’s crafty community. Wimmera Hospice Care Auxiliary president Lea Crammond said the fundraising group will host the Quilt Extravaganza...

Donations

Lodge Support Group, Wimmera Base Hospital Ladies Auxiliary, Wimmera Health Care Group Foundation Trustees and the Wimmera Hospice Care Auxiliary and Wimmera Hospice Care Trust. Each of these groups plays a very important role within the organisation....

Palliative Care / Hospice

2016 Volunteers Day

Group Foundation  Friends of the Foundation  Wimmera Base Hospital Ladies Auxiliary and the Hospital Op Shop  Wimmera Hospice Care Auxiliary  Hospice Trust  Horsham & District Orchid Club  Dimboola Campus Appeals Auxiliary  Dimboola East Ladies...

Our Supporting Groups

the purchase of lifesaving equipment for our hospital. For further details, please contact Denise on 0417 323 912. Wimmera Hospice Care Auxiliary meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 10am in the Uniting Church Hall. All funds raised go towards...

Palliative Care Coordinator - RN Grade 4B

EFT FULL / PART TIME POSITION CONSIDERED The purpose of this position is to coordinate and manage the activities of Wimmera Hospice Care. This role includes overseeing and providing palliative care nursing clinical support and acting as an expert...

Community Health

Work to Commence on Cancer Centre

project a reality.” Some of the major fundraising contributors included the Wimmera Health Care Group Foundation, Wimmera Hospice Care Trust, Geoff and Helen Handbury Foundation, Luv-A-Duck, Rural Northwest Health, Edenhope and District Memorial...

WHCG’s highest honour awarded to four community members

the final duties performed by the retiring WHCG board of directors. The new life governors: Lea Crammond joined the Wimmera Hospice Care Auxiliary in 2011 when it was in fear of folding and went home that meeting as the new president. The auxiliary...

About Us and Our Services

Every year, Wimmera Health Care Group treats over 10,000 inpatients, 16,000 emergency patients and 123, 000 outpatients. With a workforce of approximately 850 staff, we are the largest employer in the region. Since 1975, Wimmera Health Care Group has...

Annual General Meeting

a visual display of the future Wimmera Cancer Centre. “We were fortunate to hear from Bill Ower, the chair of the Wimmera Hospice Care Trust. The trust is a major contributor to the Wimmera Cancer Centre as the centre will also have community-based...

Palliative Care is everyone’s business

and were joined via video link by participants in Ararat, Ballarat and Bacchus Marsh. Melanie Hahne, Coordinator of Wimmera Hospice Care, said that National Palliative Care Week recognises the people who work in palliative care and the quality care they...

Hospital Auxiliary Awarded

Wimmera Hospice Care Auxiliary has been recognised in the 2020 Sustainable Communities Tidy Towns awards. The auxiliary represented Horsham in the Social Well-Being award category and received a Highly Commended certificate. Auxiliary president Lea...

Volunteering at Grampians Health

years of dedicated support ‘Give where you live’ is the motto of the WHCG Friends of the Foundation (FOFz) Guiding Wimmera Hospice Care to provide for our communities most vulnerable Tireless volunteers gives her all to volunteering Encouraged to...

New Director of Primary Care

Wimmera Health Care Group has appointed a new executive director position. Denise Hooper has been appointed the director of primary care and will manage a large range of areas including Wimmera Community Options, district nursing, day centre, community...

Graduate Registered Nurse Program

The Health Service Grampians Health Horsham is the major teaching health service provider for the Wimmera and Southern-Mallee region. It has excellent acute and sub-acute inpatient facilities and provides care across a vast range of health disciplines...