Ayr Health Service

The Ayr Health Service is a 28-bed facility located in the township of Ayr, in North Queensland. The Ayr Health Service offers general medical, surgical and obstetric services to Ayr, Home Hill and the broader Burdekin Shire.

What care is provided?

General

• Emergency department
• General acute medical care
• Surgical services
• Obstetric services

Allied health

• Physiotherapy
• Occupational therapy
• Medical imaging
• Oral health
• Speech therapy
• Social worker
• Pharmaceutical services

Mental Health

• Mental health service

Visiting services

• Surgical
• Psychiatric
• Paediatric (Child health)
• Chest physician
• Cardiac

Community health

• Child, adolescent and family health service
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health service
• School-based youth health
• Chronic diseases
• Mobile BreastScreen service
• Visiting well-women’s clinic
• Discharge liaison

Where possible, the Ayr Health Service offers telehealth appointments for all specialties available at The Townsville Hospital.

Patients may also be eligible for reimbursement of costs incurred when travelling to a different facility for care. You can find more information about the Patient Travel Subsidy Scheme here.

Parking

Free on-site parking is available

In an emergency you should always call 000.

For non-urgent health advice call 13 HEALTH (13 43 25 84)

Contact Us

2 Chippendale Street
Ayr, QLD 4807

PO Box 971
Townsville, QLD, 4807

Ph: (07) 4783 0855

All Townsville HHS facilities are smoke-free zones. The Queensland Government has banned smoking in all Queensland hospitals, healthcare and residential aged care facilities and from five metres beyond their boundaries.

Visiting hours

Visiting hours at all Townsville HHS facilities is 8:00am – 8:00pm.