Home Hill Health Service

The Home Hill Health Service is a 14-bed rural facility predominately providing aged care, rehabilitation and renal dialysis services to the local community. The renal satellite unit has eight chairs and operates three days a week with extra services when required. The facility maintains close ties with the Ayr Health Service.

What care is provided?

General

• Aged care
• Rehabilitation
• Triage assessments of clients 24/7
• Renal dialysis
• General outpatients clinics - three days a week serviced by Ayr medical officers
• Wound-dressing clinics – twice a day
• Outpatient blood-product transfusions - weekly

Allied health

• Physiotherapy (fortnightly)
• Speech therapy (fortnightly)
• Occupational therapy (fortnightly)
• Child health (fortnightly)
• Social worker (fortnightly)

ATODS

• Needle and syringe program

Visiting services

• Chronic kidney disease clinics - every six months
• Private GP Women’s Health Clinic - three days a week
• Diabetic foot-ulcer clinic – fortnightly
• Respiratory (lungs) clinic - monthly

Where possible, the Home Hill Health Service offers telehealth appointments for all specialties available at Townsville University Hospital.

Patients may also be eligible for reimbursement of costs incurred when travelling to a different facility for care. You can find more information about the Patient Travel Subsidy Scheme here.

Parking

Street parking is available.