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Welcome to DWECH.
Your Home for Health and Community Care
in Portland Victoria.
Our Bulk Billing Medical Clinic is accessible to all members of the public.
Some services are offered only to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
What we do
At DWECH, we are dedicated to serving the Portland community, offering a comprehensive array of general and allied health services, thoughtfully designed to enhance every aspect of your health – physical, spiritual, psychological, social, and emotional. Our vision is rooted in the belief that every community member deserves access to culturally sensitive and effective care that enriches their life.
Our Vision: Nurturing Health and Well-being
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
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
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.
