Lower Eyre Health Service

Lower Eyre Health Services is comprised of the following campuses

Cummins District Memorial Hospital | Tumby Bay Hospital & Health Services

Community Health Service | Coffin Bay Community Health Centre

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Together these two campuses provide acute, outreach and aged care services to the communities of Cummins, Tumby Bay and outlying smaller communities.

The aim is to provide a health service that is comprehensive, co-ordinated and readily accessible to the people of both Cummins & Tumby Bay communities.

While each service possesses its own unique characteristics, the following comments are applicable to both services.

Cummins District Memorial Hospital has 25 acute care beds, 8 high care residential beds funded by the SA State government & 14  Commonwealth funded low care residential units.   Tumby Bay Hospital has 35 acute beds, 12 state funded high care beds & 10 low careresidential units. Theatre, Recovery, High Dependency Unit, Maternity and Accident and Emergency services are offered at both sites. The Health Services are well supported by the local communities, with fundraising activities being widely patronised

Cummins District Memorial Hospital is a minimum volume hospital.

Both sites offer a daily Outpatients service within the hospitals from 0830 – 1000 (Cummins), and 0930- 1130 hours (Tumby Bay) including pathology collection, removal of lesions, x-rays and daily dressings.

Share care for maternity patients between the Medical Officers and the permanent Midwives on staff is offered by the Cummins Hospital.

Weekend Medical On call is shared between the Cummins Medical Clinic and the Midwest Clinic.

Dental facilities are available weekly

Collaboration and mutual support between the campuses is an outstanding feature of the Lower Eyre Health Services.

Both services offer the following:

General medicine: medical inpatients, including short term high dependency medical care

General surgery: minor procedures by general practitioners consistent with clinical privileges & admitting rights; general surgery performed by visiting surgeon from Port Lincoln or orthopaedic surgeon from Whyalla, with GP’s providing anaesthetic & surgical assistant services; post operative care following more complex surgery at other centres.

OPD & emergency services: assessment & treatment of outpatients & emergencies.   This includes resuscitation, stabilisation & transfer of those with serious or life threatening conditions that require prolonged high dependency or intensive care or complex emergency surgical care.

Obstetrics: all routine antenatal & postnatal care is provided.   Intrapartal management is guided by the World Health Organisation’s guidelines for uncomplicated obstetrics.   Planned elective caesarean sections are also provided at both campuses.

Diagnostic radiology: plain radiographs of limbs, chests, abdomens, spines & skulls are routinely taken by medical staff or qualified nursing staff.   Any other form of investigative or diagnostic radiography is undertaken at a larger referral centre.

Outreach services: Outreach nursing services are provided by nurses from the hospital staff.   Currently extended care including home help, personal care, planned in home respite, home maintenance & equipment & home modifications is provided through West Coast Community Services or Port Lincoln Domiciliary Care Services.

Extended care for the frail, aged & disabled: Day respite at the local Day Centre, personal security and planned residential respite care are available in both Cummins & Tumby Bay.

Meals On Wheels: provision of meals for the frail, aged & disabled is made through the kitchens at both campuses during weekdays, excluding public holidays.

Staff education initiatives: cross campus education initiatives are currently being examined with proposals for funding to provide mental health & radiology updates on site at both campuses currently submitted.   Programs within the campuses & external programs are accessed.

Allied health services: These services include physiotherapy for one days per week across both campuses.   Podiatry services are available for 1 day per month at each campus.   Services including dietician, occupational therapy and social work are discretionary and are provided on an unplanned, limited basis through referral to practitioners based in Port Lincoln.

Address:

8 Esplanade, Tumby Bay SA 5605.

PO Box 19, Tumby Bay SA 5605