Eventide Charters Towers
The Australian Government subsidises a range of aged care homes across Australia. A number of these facilities are run by Queensland Health, who aim to ensure quality care is provided to those Queenslanders who need it most.
Eventide is a 110-bed residential aged care facility, located in the rural township of Charters Towers. The facility has 10 psycho-geriatric beds and 26 dementia-specific beds. The remaining beds are designated high-care beds, each a single room with shared bathroom facilities. Eventide provides 24-hour nursing services and on-site allied health services.
About this facility
To learn more about this facility, including directions and visiting hours, visit the Eventide Charters Towers website.
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Residential aged care facility performance
There is clear evidence to indicate that the number of nurses on a shift plays an important role in patient safety and quality of care. Mandatory minimum daily resident care hours (DRCH) and minimum nurse and support worker skill mix ratios were introduced for public residential aged care facilities in December 2019, with reporting commencing from February 2020.
For public residential aged care facilities, the Hospital and Health Boards Regulation 2023 sets a minimum average DRCH of 3.65 hours per 24-hour period, and minimum direct care hours skill mix of 30% registered nurses and 50% nursing (where care is delivered by either a registered nurse or enrolled nurse).
The existing industrially mandated Business Planning Framework will continue to apply across all nursing and midwifery services in Queensland Health, regardless of whether a facility or ward is subject to existing nurse-to-patient ratios or minimum nurse and support worker legislation in public residential aged care facilities.