Wattletree Health Group provides exceptional home nursing services in Ruthven (postcode 3073), a north Melbourne locality in Reservoir within the City of Darebin, about 15km north of Melbourne’s CBD. Our experienced, AHPRA-registered nurses support clients in Ruthven and neighbouring Reservoir, Preston, Bundoora and Thomastown, whether the need is short-term after a hospital stay or ongoing, long-term clinical care.
Ruthven takes its name from Ruthven station on the Mernda rail line, which serves the established residential areas of northern Reservoir. The station lies between Reservoir and Keon Park on the Mernda line — a railway corridor extended in recent years to South Morang and then Mernda, dramatically improving rail access for the northern suburbs. Reservoir itself is one of Melbourne’s larger northern suburbs, with a diverse, multicultural community that has shaped a remarkably varied hospitality and retail scene along High Street and the Broadway area. Edwardes Lake Park — a much-loved local reserve with a lake, playing fields, skate park and community facilities — is one of the northern suburbs’ best recreational assets and serves residents from across Reservoir and Preston.
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 Ruthven and the wider area, and discover the Wattletree Way.
Wattletree Health Group — exceptional home nursing services in Ruthven, postcode 3073.