Wattletree Health Group provides exceptional home nursing services in Burnt Bridge (postcode 3136), a locality in Croydon within the City of Maroondah, about 28km east of Melbourne’s CBD. Our experienced, AHPRA-registered nurses support clients in Burnt Bridge and neighbouring Croydon, Croydon North, Ringwood East and Warranwood, whether the need is short-term after a hospital stay or ongoing, long-term clinical care.
Burnt Bridge is the name of a long-established neighbourhood precinct within Croydon, centred on the Burnt Bridge Shopping Centre on Maroondah Highway — one of Melbourne’s eastern arterials — which has served the local community since the 1970s. The name itself is one of the older place names in this part of Maroondah, believed to refer to a former timber bridge crossing that was damaged by fire in the early European settlement period. Croydon itself is a substantial outer-eastern community with strong community facilities, railway access via Croydon station on the Lilydale line, and proximity to the Dandenong Ranges foothills, giving residents a pleasant semi-rural outlook while remaining well connected to the city.
About Wattletree Health Group
Receiving care at home here means staying close to family, familiar surroundings, and everyday routine. Wattletree Health Group‘s home nursing care is tailored to each client’s needs, helping reduce the need for hospital or GP visits while keeping care personal and consistent.
We work with all Support At Home (SAH) providers and can invoice home care packages directly. We’re registered NDIS providers, and approved providers for TAC and WorkSafe.
Referrals are simple and welcome from self-referral, family and friends, GPs, hospitals, My Aged Care Home Care Package (HCP) and Support At Home (SAH) providers, NDIS Support Coordinators, allied health professionals, and other healthcare organisations. Getting started is easy — simply complete our referral form.
Our nurses provide flexible, compassionate, and clinically competent care for children and adults needing:
- Wound care (VAC dressings, drain tubes, staple/suture removal, acute & chronic wounds)
- Wellbeing checks and general health assessments
- Illness and injury support
- Palliative care and symptom management
- End of life care (EOLC)
- After hospital discharge care
- Night & day respite for carers of family members with high care needs (adults and children)
- My Aged Care Home Care Package (HCP) and Support At Home (SAH) clinical nurse visits
- NDIS clinical nurse visits (we are registered NDIS providers)
- TAC nursing at home (we are approved TAC providers)
- WorkSafe nursing at home (we are approved WorkSafe providers)
- Private nursing (wholly self funded nursing, independent of other provider/government funding)
- Medication administration and management (tablets, injections, syringe drivers, IV infusions)
- Post surgery care
- Pain management
- Stoma care
- Continence assessments and continence management
- Catheter care and management (including suprapubic catheters [SPC], indwelling catheters [IDC] and trial of voids [TOV])
- Diabetic care and diabetes management
- Nursing assessments
- Cognitive assessments
- Showering and personal hygiene support
- Clinical transport and chaperone to medical appointments and community access
- Pathology collection
- Respiratory care (including home ventilation, tracheostomy care)
- Health system navigation and My Aged Care referral assistance
- Service provider and carer/worker training
- Travel/holiday support (local/interstate/overseas)
- Alternative & complementary therapies support (faecal microbial transplant enemas, IV vitamin infusions etc)
- Workplace flu vaccination services
- Health & wellness coaching
Need something not on this list? Have a look at our full range of services, or get in touch — we’re happy to help.
For more on how we work, see our services, or contact us to find out more about home nursing care in Burnt Bridge and the wider area, and discover the Wattletree Way.
Wattletree Health Group — exceptional home nursing services in Burnt Bridge, postcode 3136.