Smoking Cessation - individual appointments and follow up with tailored advice for smoking cessation.

Ballarat Community Health - Lucas

Education or Support to cut back or give up smoking

Maryborough District Health Service - Maryborough Campus

Maryborough District Health Service

Service Description
The aim of the service is to assist people in giving up smoking and thus improve their health outcome. A Registered Nurse, Quit Facilitator, is available for group  and one-to-one sessions.

Contact:  Via Reception

Maryborough District Health Service - Community Services

Maryborough District Health Service [MDHS] is an amalgamated agency which provides Health, Aged Care and Community Services.  MDHS operates from three sites within the towns of Maryborough, Dunolly and Avoca.
Maryborough Campus: 75-87 Clarendon Street, Maryborough.  P: 5461 0333; F: 5461 4489
Community Services: P: 5461 0400;  F: 5461 4828
Avoca Campus: 10 Templeton Street, Avoca.  P: 5465 1200; F: 5465 3533
Dunolly Campus: 20 Havelock Street, Dunolly.  P: 5468 2900; F: 5468 1188


COMMUNITY SERVICES
Community Services works from a position of involving the community in service development, achieving outcomes through effective partnerships, and ensuring accountability to funding bodies, the organisation and the community. 

We are achieving this by working in an integrated and coordinated way with; Health Promotion, RPHS, Dental, Drug and Alcohol, Housing, Community Health, Needle Syringe Program, Allied Health, District Nursing/Community Palliative Care and a range of visiting services including: Aged Care Assessment Services, Adult Psychiatric Services, Child, Adolescent Mental Health Services, Hearing Services, Legal Aide, Rural Outreach Diversion Worker and Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA).

Community services is responding to government policy directions and communities needs by developing programs in prevention, early intervention and self management of chronic conditions and lifestyle issues that impact on health and wellbeing. The strategies we are using to do this are: 

• Best Start, early childhood intervention partnership 
• Chronic Conditions Self Management Program including Breath of Fresh Air 
• Developing a responsive Speech pathology Model 
• Refining our intake and referral systems to be more responsive to simplify and provide improved and timely access a wide range of services. 
• Developing community Falls Prevention systems 
• Improving connections between younger people and aged care services through the Count us in Project 
• Improving access for preschoolers to Dental services 
• Improving health promotion/ prevention for Dental Health 
• Developing health promotion and intervention programs to address mental health, nutrition, physical activity and social support issues.


Visiting Services include
• Psychiatric Services: Adult Mental Health Services [AMHS]; Child and Aldolescent Mental Health Services [CAMHS]; and Aged Persons Mental Health Services [APMHS]
• Aged Care Assessment Service [ACAS]
• Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service [CRS]
• Centre Against Sexual Assault [CASA]
• Hearing Service
• Legal Aid
• Podiatry Services
• Rural Outreach Diversion Worker

Quit Smoking Program
The Quit Program aims to help individuals QUIT smoking and to support them during the process. One on one sessions are available with the Community Health Nurse who is an accredited QUIT educator.
Please use link below for more detailed service information from our website.

Castlemaine District Community Health

The smoking cessation nurse uses a supportive style to help people address smoking cessation at the patient's pace and to meet the individual's needs.  Support and a non-judgemental approach are the back-bone of this service.

Brooke Street Medical Centre

Advice, information and ongoing support is provided by specialist trained Nurses to help clients quit smoking. Therapy modes may include nicotine replacement therapy, pharmacotherapy, group education and behaviour modification. Clients are managed in collaboration with their GP.
For further information, contact: 8746 1100.

Melton Health & Community Services

Djerriwarrh Health Services provides a wide range of acute, residential and primary care services to people in Melton and Moorabool Shires.

Community health services include allied health, community health nursing, podiatry, dietetics, occupational therapy, and counselling.

An accredited facilitator is available to assist people to stop smoking.  Services available include:
-- Fresh Start Course - group program run over 4 weeks and involing 2 one hour sessions each week.
-- Short Course - a 2 session program.  Each session is of 3 hours duration and are held 2 weeks apart.  It is combined with Quitline support and self help sheets.
-- Workplace seminars - a 1 hour information session, used to assist in the implementation of no smoking policies in workplaces.
-- One-to-one Counselling for people needing assistance and support to stop smoking.

Fees
Fees apply.  Details available on application.

Area Serviced
Ararat & district

Initial Contact
Facilitator, Cheryl Haines, Ph: 03 5352 9327     FAX: 03 5352 9319
Email: communityhealthnurse@eghs.net.au

Additional Information
8.30 am - 5.00 pm, Mon - Fri, for inquiries.

East Grampians Health Services - Ararat

Acute services, community services, aged care and disability

East Grampians Health Service - Ararat

The service offers support, education and community liaison to patients, families, general practitioners and other healthcare professionals.

Co-ordinator:	Ms Sue Casanelia

The Respiratory Outreach Program provides services to patients admitted with asthma and COPD to hospital, patients are visited and provided with information and educational material about their condition. This includes discussions about smoking cessation, vaccination recommendations, available exercise programs, use of action plans and advice re correct use of prescribed medications and inhaler devices.  Within 3 days of discharge from hospital, they will be reviewed by telephone to check on their progress.

A special hotline (Phone number 8345 6804) is in place to enable recently discharged patients with respiratory conditions to ring and talk to a respiratory nurse if they have any questions regarding their health.  The nurse will assess the patient's requirements and implement interventions as required such as suggesting the patient visit their general practitioner, come to the Emergency Department, or seek social work assistance.

Footscray Hospital - Western Health

DPV Health - Meadow Heights

Services includinging: counselling, speech pathology, health coaching, diabetes educator, dietetics, physiotherapy, podiatry, planned activity groups,

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