About BCH
The Banyule Community Health Service aims to:
- Provide primary health and welfare services, and promote a preventative and educative approach to health and welfare issues
- Promote a multidisciplinary approach to community health through teamwork and cooperation with other health and welfare providers
- Encourage the development of responsibility for individual, family and community health and well-being
- Encourage those in needy circumstances to have access to the range of health and welfare services provided
- Encourage members of the local community to participate in the planning, management and delivery of health and welfare services
- Be responsive to individual and community needs through continuing research and education
- Be accountable to the local community and to funding bodies
- Have ongoing evaluation as an integral part of the service.
How the Service operates
The Service receives most of its funding from the Department of Human Services, and is further supplemented by patient fees and grants received from other sources.
The Board of Directors is responsible for the Health Service's policies and objectives, as well as the strategic focus implemented by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and staff.
The Banyule Community Health Service CEO and staff are responsible for the day-to-day running of the Service at both the Greensborough and West Heidelberg sites. The input and involvement of all staff and members of the Banyule community are welcome in the Service's operation and activities.