Mercy Care Centre Young

Mercy Care Centre Young is a 26-bed health service providing a range of outpatient, community health and aged care services for the people of Young and surrounding regions. We specialise in geriatric evaluation and management, rehabilitation and palliative care. Mercy Care Centre Young offers: visiting rehabilitation and geriatric specialist assessment nursing physiotherapy occupational therapy social work speech pathology diversional therapy pastoral care gentle exercise groups. We aim to meet each person's assessed needs and we include patient-focused care planning. We work closely with external services to help achieve our patients' and clients' goals. We are a third schedule public hospital affiliated with the Murrumbidgee Local Health District.

Mercy Health provides care for people at every age and stage of life.We’re dedicated to providing the best possible care in our hospitals, clinics, nurseries, aged care homes and the community.Mercy Health offers acute and subacute hospital care, aged care, mental health programs, specialist women’s healthcare, early parenting services, palliative care, home and community care, and training and development for our staff. We are pioneering research across a range of clinical areas and taking a lead in education activities, to improve the way we deliver care and support for people in need.As a Catholic provider of care we value the dignity of life from conception to death. In addition to the many services we provide, there are some that we don’t. Like most care providers in public health and aged care, there are services we are not equipped to provide. In addition to those practical limits of care there are two areas where, for moral reasons, we do not provide some services: being women’s health and end of life care.We provide a comprehensive and highly regarded range of women’s health, pregnancy and birthing services. We do not provide termination of pregnancy or direct contraceptive procedures.We are committed to excellent end of life and palliative care which includes effective symptom and pain management and withdrawing life prolonging treatments when they are medically futile or overly burdensome or when a person wants them withdrawn. We will neither provide nor facilitate Voluntary Assisted Dying as prescribed by Victorian Legislation.Our approach is in accordance with the Hippocratic tradition of medicine: When our patients are dying, we assist them to die in comfort and with dignity. We aim to do no harm, to relieve pain, to provide compassionate care for the whole person and to never abandon those in our care.