Western Region Health Centre, Footscray, VIC

Western Region Health Centre (WRHC) is a not-for-profit community health organisation that provides vital health and support services that respond to the needs of people in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Community health care in Victoria is an effective way of providing accessible local medical care and support that is tailored to people’s needs and circumstances. We are explicitly committed to partnership with individuals and communities. We passionately believe in addressing the issues and environments that lead to illness. Community health care ensures that the services offered are the best value, most effective, and meet the needs of the people using them. WRHC services are designed for people who often have difficulty accessing mainstream health services such as newly-arrived refugees and asylum seekers, migrants, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, injecting drug users, homeless people, aged people living in government high-rise accommodation, people with varying degrees of mental illness from sub-acute to acute, people with low literacy and/or living in poverty and people who have experienced or are experiencing abuse.