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.

In an emergency you should always call 000.

For non-urgent health advice call 13 HEALTH (13 43 25 84)

Contact Us

Richmond Hill Drive Hughenden QLD 4821

Postal Address
PO Box 228
Hughenden
QLD 4821

Ph: +61 7 4741 2800
Fax: +61 7 4741 1617

All Townsville HHS facilities are smoke-free zones. The Queensland Government has banned smoking in all Queensland hospitals, healthcare and residential aged care facilities and from five metres beyond their boundaries.