Gippsland Southern Health Service (GSHS) is the major public healthcare provider in the South Gippsland Shire. The health service has a number of sites across the Shire including the Korumburra Hospital, Leongatha Hospital, along with Residential Aged Care homes Alchera House and Hillside Lodge in Korumburra and Koorooman House in Leongatha. Based at Leongatha and Korumburra, but servicing the wider area of the South Gippsland Shire, Gippsland Southern Health Service (GSHS) offers a broad range of acute, residential and primary health services and employs approximately 500 staff. Created as a result of the amalgamation of Korumburra District Hospital and Woorayl and District Hospital in 1992, Gippsland Southern Health Service provides a comprehensive range of Specialist General, Acute, Aged and Residential, Allied Health and Community Services to the residents of the Shire of South Gippsland. Gippsland Southern Health Service is funded primarily through the Victorian Department of Health and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. It operates under the direction of the Minister for Health, Minister for Aged Care state-wide and nationally the Minister for Health and the Minister for Ageing. GSHS relies on the generosity of patients and clients (past and present), individual donors, community groups and corporate supporters to supplement government funding in order to ensure that vital improvements are made to benefit patient care. The Leongatha Hospital of GSHS undertook an entire rebuild opening in December 2013.
