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.