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The Grampians region is bounded by the Grampians National Park and South Australian border to the west, through the towns of Horsham, Nhill, Dimboola, Stawell, Ararat, Daylesford, Ballarat to Bacchus Marsh just outside Melbourne and from Patchewollock in the north to Lake Bolac in the south.
Some of the projects that the Brumby Government is taking action on to ensure local families have the best health system include:
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1.Ararat Hospital redevelopment. It includes ward accommodation with 30 multi-stay beds, a birthing suite and a labour delivery room, new accident and emergency unit, an operating theatre and a day-procedure centre. $7.5 million for a new residential aged care facility in Ararat with 45 high care, aged care beds.
2.$6.8 million Stawell Regional Health Service development.
The redevelopment includes new nursing staff amenities, a 29-bed multi-purpose ward area, six day-stay beds, a new operating theatre and new accident and emergency unit.
3.$9 million redevelopment of Nhill Hospital.
The redevelopment provided a new emergency department and operating theatre as well as two birthing suites and a multi-purpose ward.
4.$4.5 million to Ballarat Hospital for an extra operating theatre, a medi-hotel for rural patients requiring day-of-surgery admission, a short stay unit and a central sterile supply department.
5.New Nurse-On-Call service with more than 7,200 local calls made in a year. Local families regularly use the triage service seeking medical advice about symptoms such as vomiting and fever, abdominal pain and discomfort, diarrhoea, nausea and chest pain.
6.Boosts for Ambulance services across the region with a new $1.2 million station in Sebastopol, new 24 hour MICA unit in Ballarat and a $1 million upgrade to the station in Daylesford.
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