Mecwacare John Atchison Centre
312-318 Derrimut Road HOPPERS CROSSING 3029
Facilities and Services
mecwacare John Atchison Centre is located in Hoppers Crossing and provides care and accommodation for 100 residents in Melbourne's West.
One and two-bedroom suites are offered, with each featuring access to a garden or balcony. All rooms are single occupancy and include an ensuite bathroom. Two-bedroom suites feature kitchenettes.
Three comfortable dining areas are available for residents to use, along with spacious and relaxing lounge areas. An activities room is used for a variety of lifestyle programs and includes a tea and coffee area for visiting friends and family.
The lifestyle program has a great range of activities on offer for residents including cooking, sewing groups, regular outings, singing, dancing and more.
Other services and amenities at mecwacare John Atchison Centre include:
- 24-hour care and support provided by Registered Nurses, personal care and lifestyle staff
- Full accreditation under the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency
- Secure and protected environment
- Ageing-in-place accommodation
- Respite care when beds are available
- Lounge rooms with tea/coffee making facilities
- Two well-appointed dining rooms
- Private dining room for special celebrations
- Well established landscaped gardens
- Movie theatre
- Hairdressing salon
- Library
- Cafe
All Rooms
Modern furniture is provided in all rooms of the John Atchison Centre, including specialised beds, overhead table, one chair, bedside table and a cupboard.
Residents can bring their own furniture (excluding beds), or use mecwacare-provided designer furniture.
High quality carpet is used throughout the John Atchison Centre, creating a luxurious, at-home environment.
Premium linen and designer fabrics are utilised across the John Atchison Centre.
All rooms have generous storage space, including built-in wardrobes.
All resident room doors are lockable, and each has a lockable cupboard and bedside table drawer. Safes are available on request.
Installation of personal fittings will be carried out by mecwacare’s Maintenance Officer.
The individual climate of each room can be set by the resident through reverse-cycle air-conditioning and heating. Overhead lighting controls are in each room, and sensor lighting is used in all en-suites to enhance safety.
Windows designed to block out harmful UV radiation provide natural light in each room.
All rooms have private ensuites that are fully accessible, including absence of trip hazards on floor, built-in handrails on each toilet and handrails throughout the ensuite bathroom.
All rooms, ensuites and public areas have Nurse Call buttons. All resident rooms have telephones, and connections for free-toair television and Foxtel on connection by resident. Internet connections are installed for access if required.
Superior Room - with balcony
All rooms are private single accommodation with an ensuite bathroom.
Superior room - with garden
All rooms are private single accommodation in a double-room suite with an ensuite bathroom.
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Location
312-318 Derrimut Road , HOPPERS CROSSING , 3029, VIC
Residents: 101
Community Based
Approved Provider:
MECWA
Mecwacare John Atchison Centre
Accreditation Status: Accreditation Report
Source: Aged Care Quality Agency
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Covid-19 Visiting Rules and Restrictions
Metropolitan Melbourne
Updated 22nd November 2020
Elderly are at Risk
Persons aged 70+ years are at high risk of severe illness or death if they contract Covid 19 (Corona Virus). This is especially true for frail and elderly members of our community being cared for in aged care homes.
Families should consider non-contact methods to maintain communication with their relatives or friends in an aged care home. Alternative contact methods are usually smart-phone and computer-based video calls.
However, it is recognised and accepted that you cannot beat a personal "face-to-face" visit with a loved one. This provides welcomed support and happiness to a person in aged care.
Key Points about Aged Care Visits during Covid-19
From 11:59pm on Sunday 22 November restrictions are changing for visits to care facilities in Victoria.
There are no limits on the purpose of visits, the number of visitors or the length of the visit. Visits to people living in care facilities are no longer limited by Chief Health Officer directions. Visitors will need to follow visiting rules set by the facility. People of any age can visit people in care facilities.
Do not visit someone in a care facility if you are feeling unwell.
Visitors to any care facility across Victoria must wear a face mask, unless they have a lawful reason for not doing so.
All personal care workers, including hairdressers and barbers, can visit care facilities to provide hairdressing services to residents.
Care facilities must comply with the four square metre rule that limit the number of people that can be in a shared communal space at the same time. Density limits do not apply in bedrooms of aged care facilities.
Restrictions on visitors to care facilities
- There are no longer specific limits under the Victorian Chief Health Officer’s directions for visitors to care facilities. This means that the number of visits, the length of the visit and the purpose of the visit are no longer limited by Chief Health Officer directions. Visitors will need to follow visiting rules set by the facility. People of any age can visit people in care facilities.
- When you visit a person in an aged care facility you will have to wear a face mask, unless you have a lawful excuse not to. You must not visit people in care facilities if you feel unwell.
- Residents of care facilities can go out from the care
Changes in Visitor restrictions from 11:59pm on Sunday 22 November
Visits to people living in care facilities are no longer limited by Chief Health Officer directions. Visitors will need to follow visiting rules set by the facility.
There are no longer specific limits for visitors to care facilities. This means that:
- The number of visits, the length of the visit and the purpose of the visitor are no longer limits by the Chief Health Officer directions.
- People of any age can visit people in care facilities.
- Do not visit someone in a care facility if you are feeling unwell
- Visitors to any care facility across Victoria must wear a face mask, unless they have a lawful reason for not doing so.
- Hairdressers and beauty service providers can now attend facilities.
Which types of care facilities are covered?
This applies to all the following care facilities, whether operated by government, the private sector or not-for-profit organisations:
- residential aged care facilities
- alcohol and drug residential services
- homelessness residential services
- disability residential services
- specialist disability accommodation
- short-term accommodation and assistance dwellings
- Supported Residential Services (SRS)
- Disability Forensic Assessment and Treatment Services (DFATS)
- Thomas Embling Hospital
Who can visit people in care facilities?
There are no limits on the purpose of visits, the number of visitors or the length of the visit. Visitors will need to follow visiting rules set by the facility.
- People of any age can visit people in care facilities.
- Do not visit someone in a care facility if you are feeling unwell
- Visitors to any care facility across Victoria must wear a face mask, unless they have a lawful reason for not doing so.
Any visitor who is unwell or is waiting for a coronavirus (COVID-19) test result should not visit.
Are there limits on visits?
There are no limits on the purpose of visits, the number of visitors or the length of the visit. Visitors will need to follow visiting rules set by the facility.
All Victorian care facilities need to keep a record of people who works at or visits each care facility and when. Records need to be kept for 28 days from the day of entry. Record the following details:
- the contact details of the person; and
- the date and time at which that person entered and left the care facility
- their declaration answers (see above)
- screening outcome (e.g. temperature if conducted).
Can people with disability attend centre based disability day services?
Under the Last Step of the roadmap, people with disability may attend centre-based disability day services. This includes people who live in disability residential services. Centre-based disability day services must ensure COVIDSafe principles are implemented including face masks being worn (unless an exemption applies), physical distancing, and that density requirements, gathering limits and limits on the number of individuals for specific activities are met.
Do I need to call the facility before I visit someone?
No. However you should be aware that the facility may have additional requirements, conditions or restrictions for entry. In exceptional cases only, and normally only on specific advice from the Department of Health and Human Services, some areas may be closed to visitors to keep vulnerable residents safe or restrict who can visit to close family.
What other conditions apply to visitors?
Visitors should not enter any of the nominated care facilities if they:
- are unwell with flu-like symptoms, such as a cough, sore throat, runny nose, shortness of breath, or fever of 37.5 degrees or higher
- have had known contact in the last 14 days with a person who was a confirmed case of coronavirus (COVID-19)
- arrived in Australia within the last 14 days.