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Skipton Aged Care Hostel

2 Blake St, Skipton VIC 3361, 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 4.9★ (10 reviews)

Type
Residential aged care
Operator
not for profit
  • respite

Skipton Aged Care Hostel is a small residential aged care hostel in Skipton in the Pyrenees Shire of western Victoria, providing low-care hostel accommodation for older residents of this small rural farming town and surrounding pastoral communities. Skipton is a quiet sheep and grain farming town in the western districts, and the hostel enables residents to remain in their community close to family rather than travelling to larger centres like Ballarat or Ararat for care. The hostel offers personalised personal care, lifestyle activities, and a home-like environment in a close-knit rural community.

Amenities

  • garden
  • hairdresser

Activities & lifestyle

  • exercise classes
  • social events
  • gardening

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: 264 minutes per resident per day (target 189), of which 111 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.