- 45 Station Street, Yea VIC 3717
- (03) 5736 0400
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- 45 Station Street, Yea VIC 3717
- (03) 5736 0400
- Contact Us
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Yea & District Memorial Hospital provides health, aged care and community services to Yea and surrounding communities. Our services have grown and changed alongside our community, while our focus remains on providing safe, accessible and person-centred care close to home.
Today, Yea & District Memorial Hospital (YDMH) provides acute and urgent care, residential aged care, district nursing, community health and a range of other health and wellbeing services.
Providing timely, high-quality services and responding to the needs of our community.
Being honest, acting transparently, using powers responsibly, and reporting improper conduct.
Making objective, merit-based decisions free from bias or favouritism.
Treating the community and colleagues fairly with courtesy, while ensuring freedom from harassment and discrimination.
Treating the community and colleagues fairly with courtesy, while ensuring freedom from harassment and discrimination.
Actively implementing, promoting, and supporting these public sector values.
We respect and support individual human rights, diversity, inclusion and fair and objective decision-making.
Our people are at the heart of Yea & District Memorial Hospital.
Our team works across hospital, aged care, community and support services to provide care and services for our local community.
Our Board provides governance and strategic oversight, supporting Yea & District Memorial Hospital to deliver high quality, safe and sustainable care for our community.
Board Chair
Principal of Williams Hunt & Bett, Lawyers and Conveyancers with offices in Yea, Mansfield and Alexandra. He has practiced law for 40 years in commercial legal practices here and in Melbourne, and as a corporate litigation lawyer.
Stuart has been a Council Member of Trinity College within the University of Melbourne and is a Trustee of the Colin Hicks Caldwell Philanthropic Trust, distributing income to both Trinity College and the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.
He is a Trustee of the Diocese of Wangaratta and a Lay Canon of Holy Trinity Cathedral. Stuart is a member of the Council of the Mansfield Anglican Parish and the Warden of St Peter’s, Jamieson. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Beolite Village in Mansfield, and he is a member and past President of the Rotary Club of Mansfield.
His grandfather, Mr Arthur Bett MBE became a Life Governor of the Yea and District Memorial Hospital in 1964.
Vice Chair
DipAppSci (Nursing), BN, CCCN, GDVET, MT&D, GCBA, GAICD.
Renee is currently the Director Partnerships, Clinical Education and Planning at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. Prior to this, Renee was the Director Consumer Engagement and Volunteer Services at Austin Health.
A Registered Nurse for over 35 years, Renee also holds qualifications in Critical Care Nursing, Vocational Education and Training, and Business Administration. She is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Renee has extensive experience of working in consumer engagement and patient centred care, clinical governance, strategic and business planning, risk management, and clinical education and training. She is passionate about ensuring the patient and carer experience is a positive one and about improving outcomes for patients. Renee is also a member of the Clinical Governance Committee.
Vice Chair
Teresa Smith is an experienced Non-Executive Director and marketing executive with a track record of driving brand growth and commercial success across retail, education, and healthcare. She has shaped leading brands including Country Road, Bunnings, NIKE, Kmart, and Reece, leveraging deep consumer insights and best-practice marketing strategies.
Teresa contributes her expertise to boards such as Toys R Us (ASX:TOY), Yea & District Memorial Hospital, and Urban Camp, providing strategic oversight in governance, marketing, and stakeholder engagement. As founder of BExceptional, she advises businesses on strategy and digital innovation.
With over two decades of leadership experience, Teresa excels in building high-performance teams, navigating complex stakeholder environments, and driving sustainable business growth. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Marketing) from RMIT and has completed executive programmes in leadership and strategic optimisation.
Board Member
Dr Abhishek (Abhi) Verma is an experienced medical practitioner, medical regulator, and non-executive director.
In addition to his Board role at YDMH, Abhi currently serves as director on the Board of Alfred Health, is a director of a private health insurance company (Peoplecare Health Limited) and presently serves as a member of the Victorian Medical Board. Abhi was appointed to this role by the State Minister for Health in 2017, and he is the the youngest person ever appointed to the Victorian Medical Board since the inception of the National Registration scheme. Abhi previously served on the Board of Edenhope & District Memorial Hospital, where he chaired the Clinical Governance Committee.
Abhi’s expertise lies in his professional experience as an actively practicing doctor, having been awarded both the prestigious Victorian GP of the Year and Australian GP of the Year awards in 2022. Abhi’s expertise also extends to the clinical and corporate governance of health service entities. Abhi is also a member of the Clinical Governance Committee at YDMH, and Chairs the Audit Committee at Alfred Health.
Board Member
Milka is an extensively experienced CA/CPA finance executive and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). Milka has worked with iconic organisations such as Coles and Australia Post, where she had significant responsibilities for sustaining service delivery to regional and rural Australian communities.
Milka is experienced in the health and aged care sector, currently as Chief Financial Officer for Vasey RSL Care and was a previous Board member and Chair of the Finance, Audit & Risk Management Committee for Finncare Inc. Milka brings deep experience in end-to-end financial management and governance for customer-centric organisations with geographically dispersed operations, shared services and complex customer-facing IT infrastructure. Milka enjoys living on acreage and resides part-time within Murrindindi Shire.
Board Member
Jane has resided in Yarra Ranges for 40 years raising 4 children on a bushland property.
Recently retired after working for 48 years, Jane worked in Community Services, Education, Local Government and Health, most notably as Eastern Health’s Program Director for Community Health and seven years with Alexandra District health senior leadership team.
Jane is a qualified social worker, teacher, consumer engagement advocate and Fellow of The Australasian College of Health Service Management. (FACHSM).
Jane works enthusiastically with community groups that support community development, building social connections and that strive to improve social equality, offering her expertise to support many community organisations with shared values.
Board Member
Anita Holt is an experienced executive leader and company director with a career spanning health, government, regional development and the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors. She brings extensive experience in governance, strategic planning, financial management, program design and delivery and stakeholder engagement.
Anita has held senior leadership roles with the Victorian Government, local government and for-profit and not-for profit sectors, and previously worked in corporate and financial roles within the health sector, including Northeast Health Wangaratta. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has served on a number of not-for-profit boards and committees.
Anita is passionate about good governance, regional communities and ensuring people have access to quality services that respond to local needs.
For generations, the Yea community has worked together to ensure local people can access quality healthcare close to home.
Hospital services in Yea date back to the early twentieth century, but the story of Yea & District Memorial Hospital is particularly shaped by the remarkable commitment and generosity of the local community.
In 1948, Yea’s Centenary celebrations helped raise funds towards a new hospital for the district. The vision was to create both a place of care for the community and an enduring memorial recognising the service of local people during the Second World War. Planning, fundraising and development continued through the years that followed, leading to the development of a new hospital during the 1950s.
As Yea and the surrounding district grew and changed, local healthcare evolved with it. Acute services expanded and residential aged care became an important part of the health service. Once again, the community played a significant role, raising substantial funds to support the development of the Rosebank Extended Care Centre..
In the decades that followed, hospital, aged care and community health services became increasingly integrated, creating the comprehensive rural health service that Yea & District Memorial Hospital provides today.
Today, we deliver acute care, urgent care, district nursing, residential aged care, and a range of community and allied health services to people across Yea and surrounding communities.
Our history is ultimately a story of people caring for people. Generations of residents, volunteers, staff, donors and community organisations have helped shape local healthcare and ensure it continues to meet the needs of our community.
That strong partnership between Yea & District Memorial Hospital and the community remains at the heart of who we are today.
The original Rosebank Hostel building was redeveloped to accommodate Community Health, Yea Medical Centre and allied health services and was named in recognition of Grace Bennetts’ contribution to residential aged care in Yea.
Yea & District Memorial Hospital continues to carry its name as the community’s memorial to the men and women of Yea and surrounding areas who enlisted in the Second World War.
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For information about accessing documents through Freedom of Information (FOI), please see our Freedom of Information information or contact YDMH for assistance.
If you have a question about how YDMH handles your personal or health information, believe your privacy has been breached, or would like to make a privacy complaint, please contact:
Yea & District Memorial Hospital
45 Station Street
Yea VIC 3717
Phone: (03) 5736 0400
We will treat privacy enquiries and complaints seriously and respond in accordance with our privacy obligations and applicable legislation.
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Email: YeaHospital@ydmh.org.au
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