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Heywood Rural Health

Heywood Rural Health, 21 Barclay St, Heywood VIC 3304, 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

Heywood Rural Health is a 45-bed residential aged care facility in Heywood, Victoria, providing hostel and nursing home care to older residents. The facility underwent significant state government-funded refurbishment including new carpets, repainting, and upgrades to resident units. It offers allied health services including podiatry, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy, and operates telehealth services to reduce exposure to infectious diseases. The organisation is committed to serving the local community with dignity and safety.

Activities & lifestyle

  • social events

Allied health services

podiatry physio ot

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

1/5

Quality measures

Care time delivered: 250 minutes per resident per day (target 222), of which 75 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.