Dungog Community Hospital

A 15-bed rural hospital that provides inpatient medical, post-surgical and post-natal services for appropriate patients, transferring from other hospitals. Post-natal service provides advice on and assistance with the establishment of breastfeeding. On transfer to the hospital, mothers and babies will be in a "rooming-in" situation, where the baby remains with the mother, in a two-bed ward.

A 24-hour Emergency Service manages the needs of its local community and ambulance transfer to The Maitland Hospital or other larger facilities is enabled by road or air.

There is provision for diagnostic and allied health services to be arranged on-site. Outpatient and community-based services include social work, women's health, sexual assault, child and family health, dietetics, pain management and rehabilitation, podiatry, physiotherapy, speech pathology, an optometrist, an audiometry clinic for hearing testing, needle exchange and palliative care. All clinics are wheel chair accessible.