Our History

St John of God Health Choices was launched on 1 July 2009 in response to the growing need for the provision of health services to people in their own homes and other non-hospital settings.

Health Choices continues and enhances the legacy of the Sisters of St John of God, who ministered to patients in their homes and to miners in their tents on the Western Australian goldfields during a typhoid outbreak in the 1890s. Our work also builds upon St John of God Health Care's holistic approach to health care by increasing our reach and capacity to enhance people’s lives across physical, mental and spiritual dimensions.

Health Choices started operating in Victoria, welcoming caregivers already working in home care services at St John of God Health Care's hospitals in Ballarat, Warrnambool and Geelong. We now operate in partnership with existing home nursing services at our Berwick, Bendigo and Subiaco hospitals and will soon be incorporated into St John of God Hospital Murdoch and St John of God Hospital Bunbury.

In May 2010, St John of God Health Choices significantly increased its Victorian services by acquiring Melbourne-based nursing provider M&M HealthPower, extending our geographic coverage across metropolitan Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula, Geelong and surrounding areas.

Health Choices operates alongside existing home nursing services at St John of God hospitals around the country.