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Merv Irvine Nursing Home — aged care facility

Merv Irvine Nursing Home

1231 Plenty Rd, Bundoora VIC 3083, 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.

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

Merv Irvine Nursing Home in Bundoora in Melbourne's north is a residential aged care nursing home named in honour of Merv Irvine, providing 24-hour nursing and personal care for elderly residents in the La Trobe and Bundoora area. The facility serves the diverse northern suburbs community with personalised care, allied health services, and lifestyle activities in a well-established suburban setting close to La Trobe University, public transport, and community facilities. Residents receive individual care planning and dementia-specific support within a caring, community-focused environment.

Amenities

  • garden
  • hairdresser
  • chapel

Activities & lifestyle

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

Allied health services

physio ot podiatry dietitian

24/7 nursing on-site

Cultural & language fit

Languages
English, Italian, Greek, Cantonese, Mandarin
Cultural focus
Italian, Greek, Chinese

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).

3/5

Residents' experience

5/5

Compliance

5/5

Staffing

2/5

Quality measures

Care time delivered: 256 minutes per resident per day (target 243), of which 79 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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