A welcoming community that feels like home Yackandandah Health Aged Care is located in the town of Yackandandah, in northeast Victoria, close to Albury and Wodonga. Here, we focus on supporting each resident to maintain their interests, familiar routines and connections to the people and places they love. Our kind and compassionate Carers and Nurses are on-hand 24/7 providing holistic care tailored to each resident. With a flexible approach to homemade meals, plenty of outdoor spaces to enjoy, and a meaningful lifestyle program, Yackandandah supports you to live your way.
Yackandandah offers permanent care, respite and memory support care in private suites with their own ensuite.
Other services and amenities include:Sun-filled courtyardsLandscaped gardensCommunal lounges and dining roomsCosy sitting areasMen's ShedRegular events and activities
Founded by the Anglican Church Diocese in May 1969, St John’s has been an integral part of the Wangaratta community for over 50 years. This expansive home is situated in an idyllic, leafy setting on the banks of Three Mile Creek.
Room Options
146 beds, including dementia specific areas
Divided into 5 wings. Most rooms have full ensuite, whilst other units have personal toilets and hand basins with a private shower facility in the unit.
Team Structure
Our team consists of clinical staff and specialists including registered nurses, endorsed enrolled nurses and personal care assistants available on-call, 24-hours a day. A social care team deals with activities and therapy. Team members are passionate, caring and friendly and go above and beyond to build a genuine rapport with residents and their families.
Care Structure
We offer one of the most comprehensive ranges of services including:
Residential aged care
Palliative care
Secure dementia care
Respite care
Provided Services
With attention to the complete health and wellbeing of our residents, the services we offer combine specialist care with quality of life. Beyond our standard care offerings, further services accommodate specific needs of residents such as providing a sewing space for residents who love to sew, or an an art space for a resident artist.
Dedicated specialist services such as physiotherapists, podiatrists, speech pathologists and dietitians are included in the accommodation costs. Optometrists and hearing specialists make frequent visits.
A fully functioning hairdressing salon is available on-site for residents’ use. Appointments can be made directly with the hairdressers.
Food & Diet
Our chefs ensure that healthy and balanced meal choices are always available and prepared on-site, 7 days a week. Meals can also be tailored to fit any dietary requirements. The menu is rotated seasonally and fresh food arrives throughout the week.Activities & Excursions
Various activities are held daily in the Village Hall, auditorium and lounge rooms, including: art therapy, indoor bowls, memory/word games, pampering, gentle exercises, Tai Chi, card games and bingo. The cafe is held every Wednesday afternoon, there is a weekly shopping trolley and happy hours. Leisure and lifestyle staff arrange outings for meals and events. A workshop group is hosted every week in a fully equipped workshop and there are vegetable gardens for residents with a green thumb.
Discover the beautiful Bupa Wodonga, a modern care home situated in a quiet residential street in the historical town of Wodonga. You’ll be close to the local community with Wodonga’s town centre, Murray River, local parks and transport links nearby.We have a range of pleasant outdoor spaces and landscaped gardens for you to enjoy. There is also a covered courtyard ideal for entertaining family and friends, complete with a children’s cubby house.Indoors, we have a range of tastefully decorated rooms, including a quiet lounge room, social sports room, sewing and craft room, library with central computer station. We also have a media room with computer games to entertain younger members of your family.Your activitiesYour passionate lifestyle team are committed to providing you with a range of activities for you to get involved with. Some activities that you will have the opportunity to get involved with include: cultural and spiritual activities, cognitive activities including puzzles, exercise sessions, community events, in-home entertainment, and movies.Visit our website to learn more or book a tour online.
Resident focused quality aged care and health service provision is the cornerstone of our services here at Violet Town. What sets Violet Town apart from other providers is that the care is community based enabling our new and current residents to be embraced by the broader community. The result is an excellent standard of care that supports our residents' transition in to this next phase of their lives. There is a strong sense of community, respect and dignity for our residents.
We offer new residents choice and versatility with four styles of room available at Violet Town including:
Large single room
Regular single rooms
Partner rooms with capacity for two residents
Special care room (dementia specific).
With multiple large and intimate living spaces across each area of our 66-bed facility, the site is designed to provide the required degree of safety and care to the individual, while at the same time protecting privacy.
A nurse call system is located in each room beside the bed and in the ensuite, enabling 24-hour support if required.
The rooms are modern, comfortable and provide a very pleasant living environment, each having its own entrance, lounge, dining room and kitchenette for residents.
The Activities and Lifestyle Program is an important feature of the facility. This program ensures residents personalised are coordinated for residents to assist in the transition into the facility.
Inspections welcome.
Estia Health Benalla is a warm and welcoming home situated close to the bowling club, cinema, shops, local hospital and other medical facilities and offers a choice of care and services to the local community.The home has single rooms, some with ensuites and companion rooms for couples or people looking to share. Bright and spacious living and dining areas, complete with fireplace, flat screen television, an organ and piano combine are enjoyed by residents, courtyard space with shaded seating and walking paths through the gardens.
Mercy Place Shepparton (South) is a friendly, close-knit community providing comfort, personalised care and a great lifestyle.
With rivers and walking tracks at your doorstep and shops and cafes only a short drive away, our home is perfectly placed for an active and fulfilling life.
Whatever your passion, our staff can support you to enjoy an active and fulfilling life. You might like to attend a service or event in our on-site chapel, relax over cards with friends in the games room, or cook an old family recipe in the residents’ kitchen.
With caring staff, friendly faces and support to live life your way, Mercy Place Shepparton (South) offers the perfect blend of independence and support.This Mercy Place home offers residents additional services.
Estia Health Wodonga is modern and welcoming home in a peaceful bushland location, backing onto the Wodonga golf course. The home is a short drive to the shops and services of Wodonga city centre and its twin city, Albury, which sits on the other side of the Murray River.
Rooms are single with ensuite and a kitchenette for residents to make the most of, each with a veranda or balcony looking out over the golf course or the home’s landscaped gardens. Daily activities are tailored around residents’ interests and include hobby groups, outings and a calendar of cultural events.
About Blackwood Cottage Blackwood Cottage is a 15 bed Older Person's Mental Health Residential Service for people over 65 years of age who experience challenging behaviours due to an enduring mental health condition or marked cognitive impairment. Blackwood Cottage is staffed by experienced mental health nurses. The unit has 2 activities officers and receives Allied Health support from the Beechworth Health Service. Nursing Staff are rostered 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.A Consultant Psychiatrist visits fortnightly and there are weekly medical reviews from a General Practitioner with a Post Graduate Diploma in Geriatric Medicine.
Grutzner House is an accredited psychogeriatric nursing home catering to the needs of up to 20 residents. The uniqueness of Grutzner House is the ability to provide care for residents with specialised mental health issues and or complex challenging behaviour.
The home is located on the campus of Goulburn Valley Health on the corner of Monash Street and Graham Street in Shepparton.
Care and treatment is provided by a multidisciplinary team consisting of local GPs, Psychiatrists, Allied Health staff as well as registered nurses and enrolled nurses.
The nursing team covers care for residents 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Support is also provided by other areas of Goulburn Valley Health upon request.
The layout of the home environment comprises of three areas; two communal and dining areas plus a residents’ activity area. All residents have access to the courtyards.
There is a choice of two types of bedrooms, all are single rooms with either ensuites or shared bathrooms. The style of bedroom is dependent upon availability.
Grutzner House provides high quality individualised person centered care in a home-like atmosphere. It aims to optimise the independence individuals whilst enabling freedom for people to enjoy community activities within the local area & in the home itself.
One of the features of Grutzner House is the lifestyle program. The Program is developed on a monthly basis to include the various events in the local region, and residents’ family events. Another unique and major feature of the home is the opportunity for residents to partake in a holiday each year.
Visiting hours are flexible and dependent upon each residents needs.
We have been supporting older Victorians and their families for more than 40 years with a range of high quality support services and programs that aim to enrich people’s lives regardless of their care, health and support requirements, financial circumstances or lifestyle preferences.
Mercy Health aims to make the transition from your family home to residential care a positive experience. Our dedicated staff support residents to live as independently as possible.
We respect people’s needs and choices and take an individualised approach to care with an emphasis on healthy, active, positive living.
We recognise the importance of cultural, spiritual and physical differences and treat all residents with dignity and respect.
All Mercy Health residential homes are fully accredited, complying with all aged care standards as set by the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency.
Mercy Place Shepparton (Ave Maria) features:
Single rooms with ensuites
Respite accommodation
Dedicated, caring professional staff available 24 hours
Day respite carer support and HACC programs supported on site
Ancillary services including GP, Podiatrist, Physiotherapist, Nutritionist
Well balanced, nutritional meals cooked on site, including cultural specific food
Pastoral care services
Extensive personalised lifestyle options
Spacious community area/multipurpose room
Courtyard and gardens
Hairdressing salon
Co-located retirement village
Close to public transport and hospitals
Pet friendly.