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South West Healthcare is a leading Victorian regional hospital, providing surgical, medical, obstetric, rehabilitation, emergency, psychiatric, allied health and community health services to the south-west region of Victoria.

With a strong commitment to continuous quality improvement, inpatient facilities in Warrnambool and Camperdown are complemented by community health facilities in Camperdown, Lismore, Macarthur and Warrnambool, with community-based psychiatric services available in Camperdown, Hamilton, Portland and Warrnambool.

South West Healthcare is the sub-regional referral centre for the south-west, enhancing local health care by providing a number of medical and surgical specialities, reducing the need for patients to travel to metropolitan hospitals.

Latest News

Sinclair Wilson is SWH’s Business Donor of the Year

One of the largest accounting firms in regional Victoria has made the largest business donation to South West Healthcare’s Warrnambool hospital for 2008. The $10,000 Intensive Care Unit defibrillator that Sinclair Wilson contributed $6,962.80 towards has arrived and is now in use.

ICU staff are thrilled with its capabilities which Sinclair Wilson partners Peter MacMillan and Felicity Melican got to witness up close and personal on a recent visit to the Intensive Care Unit (photo 1).

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SWH has best students in Victoria

Two South West Healthcare post graduate students have topped the state in their critical care studies. Against 59 others Annie Brumley has earned the highest critical care exam results and been named Deakin University Victoria’s best critical care stream student while John Holland has top-scored in the same course’s emergency nursing stream.

SWH’s entire 2008 Critical Care Post Graduate Program class – seven in all – passed the year with flying colors and their Clinical Facilitators ...[Go to full story]

Recent Stories

• Sinclair Wilson is SWH’s Business Donor of the Year
• SWH has best students in Victoria
• School’s out for 100 heart disease survivors
• Our mental health is in GREAT hands
• SWH initiative will help save 108 lives over Christmas

• More news items are here.

W'bool Campus Redevelopment

$86 million redevelopment takes to the roof

26th Sept, 2008
On the Warrnambool hospital redevelopment front, there’s been as much activity on the roof as under it this past week. Ten metres up, workmen have laid the concrete floor of a new plantroom that will ultimately provide services for every inpatient. ...[more]

• More development stories.

What's On

LAUGH YOURSELF SILLY
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
to Thursday, January 22, 2009

50 FREE double passes to the Comics Lounge have been put under SWH’s Staff Christmas Tree. You can get yours (and some for your friends) by visiting the reception desk in the main foyer of the Warrnambool hospital. ...[more]

• More events.

Latest Library Entries

2008 South West Healthcare Patient Information br

2008 South West Healthcare Annual Report

2008 South West Healthcare Quality of Care Report

Blood transfusion

2008 Graduate Nurse Rotations

• These and more available here.