Ingham Health Service

The Ingham Health Service is a 28-bed inpatient facility with emergency and general surgical services.

What care is provided?

General

• Emergency department
• General inpatient
• General surgical
• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Obstetric and caseload midwifery care
• Oncology services
• Nurse navigator

Allied health

• Dietician
• Occupational therapist
• Physiotherapist
• Radiographer
• Pharmacists
• Social worker
• Speech pathologist

Visiting services

• Surgeons and gastroenterologists
  • Private and public gastroenterologists
• Visiting community health services
  • Child development service
  • Chronic kidney disease
  • Dietitian
  • Hearing Australia (private)
  • Mental health - Adult psychiatrists, Child and youth psychiatrist
  • Sexual assault counselor (private)
  • Well-Women’s clinic
• Visiting specialists
  • Cardiologist (heart)
  • Orthopaedic surgeon (surgical treatment of bones, joints, ligaments, tendons and muscles, and fractures)
  • Respiratory physician (lungs)
  • Paediatrics (children)

Community health

• Child health
• Well-women's clinics
• Oral Health including school dental van
• Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders Health
• Community mental health
• Pathology-sample collection
• Referral to local and state-wide services such as HACC and welfare agencies
• Home Safety Assessment
• Alcohol and other drugs service (ATODS)
• Telehealth services

Where possible, the Ingham Health Service offers telehealth appointments for all specialties available at Townsville University 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 onsite parking is available