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Nazareth Care - Nazareth House Ballarat — aged care facility

Nazareth Care - Nazareth House Ballarat

218 Mill St, Lake Wendouree VIC 3350, Australia

★★★★☆ 4/5 My Aged Care Star Rating The Star Rating is the Australian Government's overall quality rating for residential aged care, from 1 star (significant improvement needed) to 5 stars (excellent). It is calculated from the four areas shown under Quality & compliance below: residents' experience, compliance, staffing and quality measures.

Google reviewers rate this 4.6★ (55 reviews)

Type
Residential aged care
Operator
not for profit
Established
1888
Nursing
24/7
  • respite
  • dementia
  • palliative

Nazareth House Ballarat is a Catholic residential aged care home at 218 Mill St, Ballarat VIC, operated by the Sisters of Nazareth and providing care for the elderly since 1888. The recently renovated, fully accredited home offers 145 private rooms, each with an ensuite, along with 24-hour clinical care and a secure dementia and memory support unit. Care types include residential, palliative and respite care, as well as independent living apartments and couple's accommodation in a small boutique retirement village setting. Sisters live on-site to provide pastoral and spiritual care, and the home features chapels, a hairdressing salon, library, on-site café, BBQ area and landscaped gardens with views over Lake Wendouree. A dynamic lifestyle program includes art therapy, music therapy, gardening, bus outings and exercise physiology classes.

Amenities

  • hairdresser
  • cafe
  • chapel
  • garden
  • library
  • BBQ area
  • outdoor areas

Activities & lifestyle

  • art
  • cooking
  • gardening
  • music therapy
  • bus outings
  • exercise classes
  • social events

Allied health services

physio podiatry

24/7 nursing on-site

Cultural & language fit

Affiliation
Catholic

Quality & compliance

My Aged Care sub-ratings

The star rating, broken down (May 2026 extract): The four areas the Australian Government scores every home on each quarter — the overall Star Rating is calculated from them. Source: the Department of Health and Aged Care's Star Ratings quarterly data extract (May 2026).

4/5

Residents' experience

5/5

Compliance

2/5

Staffing

3/5

Quality measures

Care time delivered: 214 minutes per resident per day (target 207), of which 30 from a registered nurse.

Compliance action The regulator (the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission) can take formal action when a home falls short of the standards — from a direction to improve, up to a Notice of Non-Compliance or sanctions. "None current" means no action was recorded against this home in the Government's latest quarterly extract (May 2026).
Notice of Non-Compliance (NCN)

Fees

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