Delivering care in rural towns
Governments around the world have struggled to ensure equitable access to primary care and hospital services in rural and remote communities due to a global shortage of medical workforce.
RARMS pioneered the implementation of a model of integrated care for rural and remote health and hospital services that has seen more than 25,000 Australians received continuous access to primary care and hospital services for 20 years.
RARMS recruits, trains and deploys doctors, nurses and health staff into struggling rural, remote and Indigenous communities ensuring Indigenous, aged and other residents have ongoing access to skills medical care.
The RARMS model has delievred annual savings off more than $100 million to government through improved health outcomes, reductions in avoidable hospitalisations, reduced preventable illness and avoided transportation to large referral centres.
Quick facts
ACCORDING TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: "PEOPLE AND THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH THEY ARE BORN, RAISED, LIVE, WORK AND PLAY, ARE AT THE HEART OF DELIVERING PEOPLE-CENTRED AND INTEGRATED HEALTH SERVICES".*
RARMS Health was established in 2001 by Rural and Remote Medical Services Ltd as a custom health and medical services unit to support government, communities and organisations to establish and run sustainable there own local general practices, primary care, hospital and emergency services.
We are a nationally recognised provider of tailored healthcare solutions across a diverse range of sectors - providing from a GP Clinic to a full spectrum health, aged care and hospital solution.
RARMS Health designs and delivers innovative models of care for rural and remote communities and has ensured 24/7 access to on-site and virtual GP and hospital services across rural and remote NSW for 20 years.
We custom design doctor led primary health and hospital care solutions for local health districts, primary health networks, government, residential aged care facilities, NDIS, businesses and community organisations to respond to community needs and priorities. We have the experience in successfully delivering primary and hospital workforce solutions because we have access to one oft he largest pools of highly skilled and experienced rural medical staff in Australia.
To view the many communities that are benefiting from the RARMS Health approach please click here.
To learn more about the history of RARMS Health, click here.