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Bidgee Haven Retirement Hostel

24 Mayall St, Balranald NSW 2715, 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.
Type
Residential aged care
Operator
government

Bidgee Haven Retirement Hostel in Balranald is a small government-operated residential aged care facility serving the remote Balranald Shire on the NSW-Victoria border. The hostel provides hostel-level residential care for elderly residents from Balranald and surrounding pastoral districts, offering a lifeline of professional aged care in an area with limited services. The facility is operated by Balranald Shire Council and is an essential part of the community infrastructure in this remote region.

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

4/5

Compliance

5/5

Staffing

3/5

Quality measures

Care time delivered: 355 minutes per resident per day (target 197), of which 110 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.