Overview
Augathella Multi-Purpose Health Service (MPHS) is located in the South West Hospital and Health Service (South West HHS). It is approximately 742 kilometres west of Brisbane and is in the Murweh Shire.
Distance to main referring Hospitals
Services
- Accident & Emergency
- General ward
- Outpatients
- X-ray
- Pharmacy (hospital use only)
- Wound management
- Flexible care places for long-term care
- Telehealth
- Palliative care
Visiting Specialist
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational therapy
- Speech therapy
- Social work
- Podiatry
- Dietetics and nutrition
- Diabetes education
- Multi-disciplinary Health Checks
- Counselling
- Chronic Disease Management
- Skin Checks and Treatments
- Diabetic Health Checks, Education & Management
- Family Checks
- Indigenous Health
- Immunisations Clinics
- Medicals – Pre-employment, Insurance etc
- Mental Health Assessment
- Minor Surgery
- Women’s Health
- Pathology Services
- Pre and Post Natal Care
- Q Fever Clinics
- Venesections
- Wound Dressings
- ECG’s, Spirometry, Audiometry, Vaccination
- Drug and alcohol services
Home and Community Care (HACC)
- Frail aged
- People with disabilities and carers
Bed Numbers
Augathella MPHS has:
General Practitioners
A privately-run general practice is co-located on-site at Augathella MPHS. The medical superintendent is also employed by SWHHS and is available for emergency presentations and outpatient services
Catchment population
The primary catchment for South West consists of the planning regions :
- Balonne
- Murweh
- Far South West
- Maranoa
In 2014, the estimated resident population for the catchment of Murweh planning region was 4714 people. The town of Augathella has an approximate population of 500.
The estimated Indigenous population of the Murweh planning region was 641 persons or 13.5 per cent of the total Murweh population.
Address
Cavanagh Street,
Augathella, QLD, 4477
PO Box 84,
Augathella, QLD, 4477
Phone
+61 7 4656 7100
Fax
+61 7 4656 7102
Office Hours
0800 – 1630