Karoonda Hospital-Kadistra Aged Hostel

Care types

1

Operator

government

Karoonda Hospital-Kadistra Aged Hostel in Karoonda is a rural hospital and aged hostel providing acute health and low-level residential aged care services in Karoonda, a small Mallee wheat-farming town 150 km east of Adelaide on the shores of Lake Carlet. The facility integrates basic hospital services with a residential aged care hostel, enabling older residents of the Karoonda and East Murray districts to access both acute health care and ongoing residential care without travelling to Murray Bridge or Adelaide. Karoonda's position in the mallee scrub country of the eastern Murraylands, surrounded by salt lakes and wheat paddocks, reflects the sparse and agricultural character of this remote South Australian community.