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Allawah Special Care Hostel

42 Hume St, Yarrawonga VIC 3730, Australia

★★★★★ 5/5 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.
Type
Residential aged care
Operator
not for profit
  • respite

Allawah Special Care Hostel is a residential aged care facility in Yarrawonga on the Murray River in northern Victoria, providing hostel-level and special care accommodation for older residents of the Yarrawonga-Mulwala border community. The hostel offers low-to-medium-level personal care and support in a homely setting, enabling residents to remain connected to Yarrawonga's tight-knit rural community close to the Murray River. Residents enjoy a relaxed regional lifestyle with lifestyle activities, allied health visits, and a caring local team.

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).

5/5

Residents' experience

5/5

Compliance

5/5

Staffing

2/5

Quality measures

Care time delivered: 229 minutes per resident per day (target 205), of which 45 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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