Palliative Care

Contact Hours: 8.30am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday
Address: McKellar Centre, 45-95 Ballarat Road, North Geelong
Car Parking: Parking available on site
Telephone: 03 5279 2800
After Hours Telephone: 03 5279 2800 - diverts to Geelong Hospital switchboard after hours, request to speak to the Palliative Care Physician on call for medical advice only
Fax: 03 5279 2801
Email : palliativecare@BarwonHealth.org.au

Service Description:

For Health Professionals

Referral (community, outpatients, inpatients), Cachexia Service, grief & bereavement support.

For Patients, Carers and Families

Contact and information, Palliative Care nurses, volunteer support, social work, clinical psychology, medical services.

Central Referral Point for Palliative Care

Barwon Health is pleased to announce that a central referral point for the Palliative Care Service has now been created. This centralised referral point will assist you in accessing the following services offered by Barwon Health:

  • Palliative Care Consultancy Service at Geelong Hospital – available to all acute areas of Barwon Health.
  • Community Palliative Care – providing specialist palliative care in the home.
  • Palliative Care Unit at the McKellar Centre – a 15-bed facility providing high quality patient and family orientated care, including pain and symptom management, bereavement support to family and friends.
  • Outpatient Clinics at Geelong Hospital and McKellar Centre.

 

Referrals can be made by General Practitioners in the Barwon South Western Region from 8:30am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday by contacting ph. 5279 2800, or fax 5279 2801.

In addition to the office hours referral service, after hours access to telephone advice provided by Caritas Christi Hospice Palliative Care nurses will be available on the same telephone number. Patients who have been admitted to the Community Palliative Care program and GPs calling our service will be automatically diverted from our central number to the Geelong Hospital switchboard and connected with the after hours service from 4.30pm to 8.30am, Monday to Friday and on weekends and public holidays.

 

 

Other Referral Options:

www.pallcarevic.asn.au - Palliative Care Victoria's website

www.pallcare.org.au - Palliative Care Australia's website

www.caresearch.com.au - Online palliative care information

Date Updated:7/28/2009


: : PUBLICATIONS
Quality of Care 2008
1/28/2009  (3 MB)


Barwon Health Carer Respite
4/16/2008  (1 MB)


Advance Care Planning brochure
4/16/2008  (276 KB)


Barwon Regional Aged Care Assessment Service (BRACAS)
5/22/2007  (499 KB)



Special Care Nursery brochure
10/26/2006  (160 KB)
The Ida Pacey Special Care Nursery


: : USEFUL LINKS
Barwon Medical Imaging