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Kara House

66 Webb St, Clare SA 5453, 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
  • day therapy

Kara House in Clare is a residential aged care facility in the Clare Valley wine region, 140 km north of Adelaide in the Clare Valley National Heritage Landscape, providing residential care for older adults in one of South Australia's most celebrated wine and tourism regions. The facility serves the farming, viticulture, and community residents of Clare and the surrounding Clare Valley towns including Sevenhill, Auburn, and Mintaro, enabling older residents to remain in the celebrated landscape of Riesling vineyards, heritage copper towns, and the Heysen Trail. Clare's rich history, its cool-climate wine culture, and the warm community character of the mid-north provide a distinctive regional setting for aged care.

Amenities

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

Activities & lifestyle

  • ✓ social events
  • ✓ gardening
  • ✓ exercise classes
  • ✓ music therapy
  • ✓ bus outings

Allied health services

physio podiatry dietitian

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

4/5

Staffing

3/5

Quality measures

Care time delivered: 234 minutes per resident per day (target 230), of which 73 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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