Benalla Home Nursing Service provides home based palliative care including:
- Palliative care assessments
- Consultation and advice;
- Care coordination;
- Symptom support, advice and management;
- Practical support for everyday activities;
- Equipment loans;
- Individual and family emotional support;
- Bereavement care; and
- After hours phone advice from palliative care nurses.
Our team work with many other health care providers including GPs, Medical Specialists, and our local District Nurses in Benalla and Mansfield to provide support to people with life limiting illnesses (cancer and non-cancer) and their family members and carers.
We will talk with you about an Advance Care plan (ACP) or Advanced Care Directive (ACD)which is a document that can guide your healthcare, especially when unable to make health care decisions for yourself. It helps those caring for you, healthcare providers and your family to remember and respect what you want. An ACP/ACD can be changed, updated or withdrawn at any time.
We work with Caritas Christi Hospice (St Vincent’s Health) who provide afterhours phone advice for ourconsumers, their family, and carers.
Our team is supported with Secondary Specialist Palliative Care Consultancy by the East Hume Palliative Care Consultancy Service at Albury Wodonga Health, the Goulburn Region Palliative Care Consultancy at GV Health and St Vincent’s Health Melbourne.Referrals will be accepted via online. Note only boxes with a red asterix (*) need completing, and other documents can be attached.
Self-referral is welcome bycompleting the online referral. We will contact you to arrange a time to meet with you and to get permission to contact your family doctor.
Our service covers the Rural City of Benalla, Mansfield and parts of Strathbogie Shire.
Includes Postcodes: 3523, 3608, 3610, 3612, 3631, 3646, 3663, 3664, 3665, 3666, 3669, 3670, 3672, 3673, 3675, 3678, 3713, 3715, 3719, 3720, 3722, 3723, 3725, 3726, 3727, 3732
Contact details
Telephone: (03) 5761 4207
Fax: (03) 5761 4211
Postal Address: PO Box 406, Benalla 3671
Online referral to Benalla Health Palliative Care