A chapter in the story of the COVID pandemic locally is about to end, with Bass Coast Health to close its COVID Testing Drive-through and Community Vaccination Clinic in response...
This Heart Week, Bass Coast Health is excited to welcome two new cardiac nurses to the team: Harold Warne and Karen Wynne. They will improve care, support, access and education...
The BCH Inverloch Fundraising Auxiliary was pleased to receive a cheque of $2665.45 from the members of the Inverloch Men’s Shed. Christine Henderson, BCH Executive Director of Clinical Services and...
Bass Coast Health (BCH) has today called a Code Yellow to signal an internal emergency relating to staffing shortfalls. According to CEO Jan Child, staffing shortfalls have been a constant...
Inverloch Bowling Club raised $2500 for the Bass Coast Health Inverloch Fundraising Auxiliary at the club’s Bowls Over Cancer Day on Thursday 28 April. Club President Terry Seaward was thrilled...
Kate Lindsay still recalls the time her daughter Julia told day care staff that her mother worked in heaven with the angels. That was after Kate, an Emergency Nurse at...
Bass Coast Health (BCH) staff are striving hard to give patients and consumers the best possible care, from inpatients at Wonthaggi Hospital to consumers of our Allied Health services at...
Graham Margetts knows just how life-threatening COVID-19 is. He suffered with the virus for 10 days, all while enduring the side effects of chemotherapy for stage 4 cancer. He will...
Bass Coast Health is offering staff - new and existing - exciting learning opportunities, with the creation of a dedicated professional development space at Wonthaggi Hospital. The space simulates a...
Bass Coast residents and visitors can minimise the spread of the highly infectious subvariant of COVID-19 these April school holidays and Easter long weekend. The BA.2 subvariant is up to...
Bass Coast residents who have suffered with COVID have urged everyone to get a booster dose to minimise the impact of the virus on their health and their lives. A...
Bass Coast Health Board Member and Phillip Island resident Mim Kershaw has never felt lingering lethargy and insomnia like that caused by COVID-19. And that’s nearly a month after catching...
COVID cases are rising in our community as the more contagious BA.2 subvariant spreads quickly throughout Victoria and according to Bass Coast Health CEO Jan Child, it’s never been more...
Bass Coast Health (BCH) is proud to be supporting people living with diabetes from the war-torn country of Ukraine. People living with diabetes are being impacted by a shortage of...
Following a busy long weekend in Bass Coast people with COVID symptoms are urged to continue to get tested to help contain the spread of the virus in the community...
While we know Omicron COVID cases have been decreasing, we also know that it is critically important that we remain ready for the next COVID variant, and the next influx...
Bass Coast Health delivers a vital service to young families and now from a new location. The Bass Coast Health Maternal and Child Health Service has a new office location...
Bass Coast Health is pleased to welcome the return of surgery to the operating theatres at Wonthaggi Hospital after it was postponed during the recent Omicron COVID surge. Elective surgery...
In the past weeks, Bass Coast Health has recruited over 20 new staff on a permanent basis, following a campaign seeking additional employees to help the health service meet the...
Bass Coast Health is pleased to welcome the largest graduate nurse intake that we have ever had. Sixteen graduate nurses – some who are local to Bass Coast and others...
