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Garden View Court Hostel

70 Lowe St, Ararat VIC 3377, 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 5.0★ (1 reviews)

Type
Residential aged care
Operator
not for profit
  • respite

Garden View Court Hostel in Ararat in the Grampians region provides residential aged care hostel accommodation and personal care for older residents of this historic town, which gained notoriety as the site of the Aradale Mental Hospital and the J Ward Museum. Ararat is the only town in Australia founded by Chinese settlers during the gold rush, giving it a distinctive multicultural heritage, and Garden View Court provides a welcoming care environment for the Ararat and surrounding Grampians Shire community. The hostel offers personalised care, lifestyle activities, and garden views that reflect the pastoral landscape of the Grampians region.

Amenities

  • ✓ garden
  • ✓ hairdresser

Activities & lifestyle

  • ✓ exercise classes
  • ✓ social events
  • ✓ gardening
  • ✓ music therapy

Allied health services

physio podiatry

Cultural & language fit

Languages
English

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

5/5

Staffing

3/5

Quality measures

Care time delivered: 208 minutes per resident per day (target 196), of which 66 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).
None current

Fees

Fees not publicly disclosed by this provider.

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