Contact
location 33-39 Southey Street, Jerilderie, NSW 2716 Get directions
Postal address : PO Box 116
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The Jerilderie Multipurpose Service provides a 24-hour accident and emergency and is a 15-bed facility with 3 acute care beds and 12 residential aged care beds.
Our servicesJerilderie 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. | |
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.