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Southern Cross Care Tara - Tarcoola — aged care facility

Southern Cross Care Tara - Tarcoola

2 Sara St, Tara QLD 4421, 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
Operator
not for profit
  • respite
  • dementia
  • palliative

Tarcoola (Tara) is a residential aged care facility located in Tara, Western Downs, Queensland, approximately 3.5 hours west of Brisbane. Operated by Southern Cross Care Queensland, a Catholic not-for-profit organisation with over 40 years of experience, the home accommodates up to 33 residents in a warm and welcoming community environment. The facility provides residential care, respite care, palliative care, and dementia care, supported by professionally trained nurses, visiting doctors, and allied health professionals. Residents benefit from a personalised care plan, pastoral care services, landscaped gardens, shared activity spaces, and a range of social and wellness programmes designed to keep them active and connected. Southern Cross Care QLD uses the CareApp platform to keep families informed and connected with daily life inside the home.

Amenities

  • ✓ garden
  • ✓ communal lounge
  • ✓ activity room

Activities & lifestyle

  • ✓ exercise classes
  • ✓ dance
  • ✓ social events

Allied health services

other

Cultural & language fit

Affiliation
Catholic

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

4/5

Staffing

5/5

Quality measures

Care time delivered: 230 minutes per resident per day (target 222), of which 52 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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Southern Cross Care Qld

<1 km away

32 Bilton St, Tara QLD 4421, Australia

Southern Cross Care Queensland in Tara provides residential aged care and community support for older adults in the small Western Downs town of Tara, 400 km west of Brisbane, serving the cotton and grain farming community of the Tara district and surrounding outback Queensland pastoral stations. Southern Cross Care is a major Catholic not-for-profit aged care provider in Queensland, bringing faith-based community care values to this remote rural community. The Tara facility enables older residents to remain close to family and community rather than relocating to Toowoomba or Brisbane for aged care.

respite day therapy

not for profit

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