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Orroroo community home

32 Fifth St, Orroroo SA 5431, 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.

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Type
Residential aged care
Operator
not for profit

Orroroo Community Home in Orroroo is a small residential aged care home in the historic Mid North township of Orroroo on the Pekina Creek, 270 km north of Adelaide in the foothills of the southern Flinders Ranges, providing community-based residential care for older adults of this isolated pastoral and farming community. The home serves the farming and retired community of the Orroroo-Carrieton Council area, where wheat growing and sheep pastoralism have defined the landscape and community for over 150 years. Orroroo's position as a small but self-contained mid-north service town, at the gateway to the Flinders Ranges from the east, provides a distinctive setting for community-governed aged care in remote South Australia.

Amenities

  • ✓ garden
  • ✓ communal lounge
  • ✓ hairdresser
  • ✓ chapel

Activities & lifestyle

  • ✓ social events
  • ✓ gardening
  • ✓ exercise classes

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

5/5

Quality measures

Care time delivered: 258 minutes per resident per day (target 217), of which 46 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).
Directions - To revise Plans for Continuous Improvements (PCI)

Fees

Fees not publicly disclosed by this provider.