Allied health

We recognise the importance of making sure your health care is planned around your individual health needs.  Our allied health teams play an important role in delivering this through our rehabilitation services.

Allied health can help with:

• disease prevention and control
• helping you with nutritional health
• helping you with physical and mental rehabilitation to help you get back to the best health possible.

Inpatient allied health services:

St John of God Bendigo Hospital provides inpatient allied health services, where clinically indicated, as part of every patient’s stay, which may include:

• physiotherapy
• occupational therapy
• social work
• psychology
• dietetics
• speech pathology
• diabetes education

Outpatient allied health services:

The outpatient rehabilitation team provide specialist services for people who need assistance to recover after injury, illness, or surgery. These services include:

• physiotherapy
• occupational therapy
• social work
• psychology
• exercise physiology
• dietetics
• speech pathology

We have modern facilities including a gymnasium and hydrotherapy pool and provide cardiac and oncology rehabilitation programs.

Patients can access our outpatient allied health services with:

1. Private health insurance under an outpatient rehabilitation program
2. Private health insurance through extras cover
   
3. Full fee paying

For enquiries, please call 03 5434 3261.