Information as at August 2014
Location of Super Clinic
- 5 Walker Road, Edmonton (Hub)
- Woree Family Medical Centre (Spoke)
- McLeod Street Medical Practice (Spoke)
- Cairns Occupational Therapy (Spoke)
- Chiropractic Works, Cairns (Spoke)
- Health Management (Cairns business district and Smithfield Spoke)
- DiagnoSYS Physiotherapy (Spoke)
Contact details
(07) 4055 4400
Balance! Healthcare website (Cairns GP Super Clinic)
Funding recipient
Balance! Healthcare Pty Ltd
Total Commonwealth funding
$5 million (GST exclusive)
Description of clinic
Edmonton Hub: A newly constructed 648m2, single storey facility.
McLeod Street Spoke: McLeod Street Medical Centre.
Woree Spoke: Renovation of the existing Woree Family Medical Centre.
The Edmonton Clinic opened on 14 May 2012.
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Services
Multidisciplinary care
Services
Edmonton: GP consultations, nursing, dietetics, diabetes education, speech pathology, psychology, physiotherapy, exercise physiology, clinical pharmacy, pathology collection.
Woree: GPs, practice nurse, podiatry, audiology, pathology collection.
McLeod Street: GPs, nursing, psychology, pathology collection.
This hub and spoke model will focus on preventative activities including lifestyle modification and chronic disease management programs.
Workforce
Edmonton: GPs, Practice Nurses, visiting allied health such as a dietitian, diabetes educator, speech pathologist, psychologist, physiotherapist and exercise physiologist. Also available is a clinical pharmacist, pathology collection and an Aboriginal Health Worker.
McLeod Street: GPs nurses, psychologists.
Woree: GPs, a practice nurse, visiting podiatrist, audiologist and pathology collection. Top of page
Preventative services
Edmonton
Diabetes Clinic monthly
Skin Cancer Clinics weekly
Aboriginal Health Clinic at Edmonton 3 days per week
Woree
Skin Cancer Clinics
Nurse led immunization clinics
McLeod Street
Skin Cancer Clinics
Health needs and priorities
Chronic Pulmonary Obstructive Disease Clinic
Asthma Clinic
Mental Health
Quality
AGPAL accreditation is underway at Edmonton. Both Woree and McLeod Street are AGPAL accredited.
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Operating hours
Edmonton: Monday to Friday: 8am - 8pm, Saturday: 9am - 2pm
Woree: Monday to Friday 8am – 5pm, Saturday 8.30am – 11.30am
McLeod Street: Monday to Friday 8am – 5pm, Saturday 8.30am – 11.30am
Balance! Edmonton Family Practice also provides a GP into the Dial-a-Doctor roster which offers after hours home visits after 8pm at night and all day on weekends.
Billing arrangements
All children under 16 years, health care card holders, seniors, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the financially disadvantaged are bulk billed.
Home visits and visits to residential aged care facilities
Home visits are provided on an as needed basis for elderly patients. There are also consultations for regular patients who are in residential aged care facilities at Masonic Aged Care Facility and Sheridan Gardens Aged Care Facility.
Clinical training arrangements
4 Medical students from James Cook University have undertaken clinical placements. Nursing and medical student placements will continue during the next 12 months. McLeod Street and Woree also take Registrars.
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