NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1993 NO. 48
NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1993 NO. 48
EXPLANATORY STATEMENTSTATUTORY RULES 1993 No. 48
Issued by Authority of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Community Services
National Health Act 1953
National Health Regulations (Amendment)
Subsection 140(1) of the National Health Act 1953 (the Act) enables the Governor-General to make regulations, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, including the prescribing of nursing homes as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purposes of section 4AAAA of the Act.
A number of government nursing homes in Victoria are to be prescribed as adjusted fee government nursing homes under the the Act.
Currently, proprietors of government nursing homes receive a fixed rate of benefit for each nursing home patient. The rate of benefit paid in respect of such patients has been frozen since 1985. The Government has announced its intention that government nursing homes be brought into the care aggregated module (CAM) funding system which applies to privately operated and adjusted fee government nursing homes. The CAM funding system will result in higher levels of benefit being paid to the proprietors of nursing homes that become adjusted fee government nursing homes. In order for existing government nursing homes to become adjusted fee government nursing homes and thereby be brought into the CAM funding system, they must be prescribed as adjusted fee government nursing homes for the purposes of section 4AAAA of the Act.
On 1 May 1993, a number of government nursing homes in Victoria will become adjusted fee government nursing homes.
Accordingly, the Regulations prescribe the following government nursing homes in Victoria as adjusted fee government nursing homes from 1 May 1993:
Name
& Address of Nursing Home Polworth House Corangamite Street COLAC VIC 3250 Grace McKellar House 45-95 Ballarat Road NORTH GEELONG VIC 3215 South Barwon Nursing Home 17-25 Colac Road BELMONT VIC 3216 Lyndoch Nursing Home Hopkins Road WARRNAMBOOL VIC 3280 Corio House Nursing Home Nelson Street WARRNAMBOOL VIC 3280 Jack Lonsdale Lodge Morgan Street SEBASTAPOL VIC 3356 Swan Hill District Nursing Home Splatt Street SWAN HILL VIC 3585 Wimmera Base Nursing Home Baillie Street HORSHAM VIC 3400 Hamilton Base Hospital Nursing Home Foster Street HAMILTON VIC 3300 Lumeah Nursing Home Echuca District Hospital 9-27 Francis Street ECHUCA VIC 3564 Mildura Base Nursing Home Thirteenth Street MILDURA VIC 3500 Mt Alexander Hospital Nursing Home Unit Cornish Street CASTLEMAINE VIC 3450
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Approval No. 3466S 3409S 4445S 3460S 3407S 4414S 3483S 3465S 3472S 3469S 3454S 3401S
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The Regulations will commence an 1 May 1993.