West Otago Health Limited

West Otago Health is a community owned health care provider. The business services the entire West Otago area from a combined rural community health centre and home for the aged situated at the northern entrance to Tapanui. Our focus is to provide “whole of life care”. This includes rural primary health care, emergency care, district nursing, allied health (including occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech language therapy) palliative care and aged related residential care services. To ensure equity and improve accessibility of service provision to specialist care, support is given to and relationships fostered with visiting specialists. As well as providing learning opportunities for our own staff we work collaboratively with Medical and Nursing schools to provide opportunities for students to apply their learning in a rural practical setting.