Acute Hospital Care

24 Hour Urgent Care

The Terang Hospital Urgent Care Centre operates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. This service is led by a clinical team of highly skilled nurses with support from Emergency Specialists and Nurse Practitioners via Telehealth and Ambulance Victoria. We can triage, assess, and manage a wide range of emergency presentations such as asthma, chest pain, wounds, and limb injuries.

If your healthcare needs can’t be treated at the Terang Hospital you will have an initial assessment and management and be transferred to a regional hospital.

If you have a telehealth consultation this is free of charge.

If ambulance transport is required, you will be billed by Ambulance Victoria, unless you have ambulance cover.

The Urgent Care department is accessed from the car park to the rear of the main car park.

Acute Hospital Care

The fourteen bed Terang Hospital Acute Unit provides a flexible range of services including medical, surgical, palliative care, alcohol detoxification, and the Transition Care Program. The Acute Unit is staffed by dedicated clinicians with support via a Visiting Medical Officer service and on-call telehealth medical support.

During the day, these areas are accessed through the Administration area in the front of the Health Service building facing Austin Avenue.

Day Surgical Procedures and Diagnostic Procedures

The hospital is well supported by visiting surgeons and anaesthetists who are able to undertake a range of surgical and diagnostic procedures. Referrals to surgeons can be made through your GP.

Private Health Insurance

You can choose to use your private health insurance (hospital cover) for your admission to the Acute Unit. If you’d like to do so, please talk to any member of your care team. By electing to be admitted as a private patient you are actively supporting the health service.

General Medicine

A broad range of medical cases are catered for by our nursing staff and General Practitioners (GP) from Terang Medical Clinic.

Palliative Care

Palliative care is provided both within the hospital by our acute nursing staff and out in the community by our District Nursing Service. Nursing staff can assist inpatients and home-based clients with the development of aged care directives.

Our qualified nursing staff possess extensive knowledge, skills and expertise in the care of patients, their families, carers and communities, who are living with and dying from a terminal condition.

Quality care at the end of life is realised when strong networks exist between specialist palliative care providers, primary generalist, primary specialist and support care providers and the community – working together to meet the needs of all people. Our nursing staff have well-established networks that can assist and support both the patient and their family/carer.

This information is current as at 12/9/2025.