Jerilderie Multipurpose Service

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Our services Jerilderie Multipurpose Service provides numerous clinical services to the community, including emergency care, palliative care, respite care and a range of community care and allied health services, supported by virtual care (telehealth) and speciality services on referral.  Medical services are provided by visiting medical officers by local general practitioners.
Aboriginal health services Aged care services Care coordination service Child protection services Child protection counselling service Child wellbeing coordinator  Community care intake service Community care nursing service  Critical care advisory service	Diabetes service Domestic violence Mental health emergency consultation service  Mental health services Nutrition and dietetics Occupational therapy  Palliative care Physiotherapy  Women's health service

Location 

Jerilderie is a town in the southern Riverina region of New South Wales on the Newell Highway. It is the home of the famous “Jerilderie Letter” dictated to Joe Byrne by bush ranger Ned Kelly.

With a population of just over 1,000, Jerilderie is an irrigated farming community with the area around Jerilderie producing a quarter of all tomatoes grown in Australia. Additionally Jerilderie has a diverse number of crops such as rice, wheat, canola, mung and soybeans, onions, liquorice, grapes and a number of cattle farms.

The town has two primary schools, Jerilderie Public School and Jerilderie Catholic School, an 18-hole golf course, three pubs, and Jerilderie Multipurpose Service was the first in regional Australia to operate with solar power.

Getting there 

Jerilderie is 3 hours and 30 minutes from Melbourne, 1 hour and 40 minutes from Shepparton and 6 hours and 50 minutes from Sydney. Jerilderie is about 2 hours and 30 minutes west of Wagga Wagga. 

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