Dungog Community Hospital

Name :

Dungog Community Hospital

Address  :

Hospital Road

Town  :

Dungog

State  :

New South Wales

Country  :

AUSTRALIA

Post Code:

2420

Phone  :

02 4995 7000

Fax  :

02 4995 7005

Web URL  :


Description

Dungog Community Hospital is a 15bed rural hospital that provides inpatient medical postsurgical and postnatal services for appropriate patients transferring from other hospitals Postnatal service provides advice on and assistance with the establishment of breastfeeding On transfer to the hospital mothers and babies will be in a quotroominginquot situation where the baby remains with the mother in a twobed ward

A 24hour 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 onsite Outpatient and communitybased services include social work womens 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


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