Woy Woy Hospital

Name :

Woy Woy Hospital

Address  :

Ocean Beach Road

Town  :

Woy Woy

State  :

New South Wales

Country  :

AUSTRALIA

Post Code:

2256

Phone  :

61 2 4344 8444

Web URL  :


Description

Overview
Woy Woy Hospital provides nonacute and outpatient services to the residents of the Peninsula and southern areas of the Central Coast

The two inpatient services provided within the facility form part of the Clinical Stream of Rehabilitation and Aged Care Services They include a 33 bed general unit for subacute medical palliative and post surgical patients as well as a 30 bed rehabilitation unit for the care of neurological general and geriatric rehabilitation Pharmacy Pathology Physiotherapy Speech Pathology Occupational Therapy Nutrition and Social Work Services are provided to the inpatients
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