Hughenden Multipurpose Health Service

The Hughenden Multipurpose Health Service is an acute facility with 24-hour emergency and general medical care, with six long-stay nursing home-type beds.

What care is provided?

General

• Emergency department
• General inpatient
• Aged care

Visiting services (including allied health)

• A female GP
• Paediatrician (children’s health)
• Physiotherapy
• Sexual health and wellbeing
• Child development service outreach
• Optometrist
• Psychological therapy
• Well-women's clinics
• Dental clinic
• School oral health
• Dietetics
• Podiatry (foot health)
• Physiologist
• Occupational therapy
• Speech therapy
• Psychologist
• Diabetes educator
• ATODS (alcohol, tobacco and other drugs)

Community Health

• An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker
• Community nurse
• School-based youth health nurse
• Community mental health

Where possible, the Hughenden Health Service offers telehealth appointments for all specialties available at Townsville University Hospital. The team also provides a telehealth oncology service supervised by Townsville University Hospital oncology service for patients requiring chemotherapy.

Patients may also be eligible for reimbursement of costs incurred when travelling to a different facility for care. You can find more information about the Patient Travel Subsidy Scheme here.

Parking

Street parking is available.