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2. Services and Facilities
3. Dungog Community Hospital

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Dungog Community Hospital

DUNGOG COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

Dungog Community Hospital is a 15-bed rural hospital that provides inpatient medical, post-surgical and post-natal services for appropriate patients, transferring from other hospitals. Post-natal service provides advice on and assistance with the establishment of breastfeeding. On transfer to the hospital, mothers and babies will be in a "rooming-in" situation, where the baby remains with the mother, in a two-bed ward.

A 24-hour Emergency Service manages the needs of its local community and ambulance transfer to The Maitland Hospital or other larger facilities is enabled by road or air.

There is provision for diagnostic and allied health services to be arranged on-site. Outpatient and community-based services include social work, women's health, sexual assault, child and family health, dietetics, pain management and rehabilitation, podiatry, physiotherapy, speech pathology, an optometrist, an audiometry clinic for hearing testing, needle exchange and palliative care.

Hours of operation
Dungog Community Hospital operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Normal business hours are 8.30am - 5.00pm weekdays.

Early Childhood Clinic -2nd and 4th Thursday and Friday
Audiometry Clinic - 1st and 2nd Friday

Visiting hours
Visiting hours are flexible. The hospital encourages visitors to be sensitive to patients' needs and keep noise to a minimum during visits. The hospital does not permit visitors after 8:00pm, without permission of the Nurse in Charge.

Parking
Parking is provided directly opposite the hospital at no charge. There is provision for incoming patients to be dropped off directly in front of the hospital's front entrance.

Disabled access
There is disabled parking available in the hospital car park, and access is easily enabled through the front entrance.

Address
Hospital Road, Dungog NSW 2420

Main contact numbers
Telephone number: (02) 4995 7000
Fax number:  (02) 4995 7005

Auxiliary services and volunteers
Contact the hospital for details of the voluntary service.

Site map
A site map detailing bus stops, parking, main entry and traffic flow is available to make it easier to find your way around Dungog Multi Purpose Centre.

Download a printer friendly version of this site map  (pdf) 150K

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