Dhauwurd Wurrung Elderly & Community Health Service Inc (DWECHS) provides comprehensive general and allied health care while also offering a wide range of support programs to the Portland community.

Our Vision:

Our service strives to provide our community members with access to a range of culturally appropriate and effective services, Which improve their physical, spiritual, psychological, social and emotional health & wellbeing. Our philosophy is: To ensure the utmost privacy and confidentiality. To give the quality and quantity of time needed to each patient. To provide the best possible advice and treatment to ensure a good healthy lifestyle.

Our Mission:

"Our mission is to provide the highest standard of patient care incorporating a holistic approach towards diagnosis and management of illness. This practice is committed to promoting wellness and disease prevention to all patients. All patients are treated with the utmost respect, dignity and in a way that ensures confidentiality."

Aboriginal Health Definition:

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As an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation we accept and respect the concept, perception and definition of health from the National Aboriginal Health Strategy as being a key concept in Aboriginal health. Health to Aboriginal peoples is a matter of determining all aspects of their life, including control over their physical environment, of their dignity, of community self-esteem, and of justice. It is not merely of the provision of doctors, hospitals, medicine or the absence of disease and incapacity. Health is not just the physical wellbeing of an individual but the social, emotional and cultural wellbeing of the whole community. This is a whole of life view and includes the cyclical concept of life-death-life.