Aurora Kellyville Private Hospital

Set in the northwest part of Sydney, near Kellyville Memorial Park Reserve and highway A2, Aurora Kellyville Private Hospital (formerly called "The Hills Clinic") is accredited by the Global-Mark Standards to treat adults, adolescents, and children for mental health and substance use disorders with residential, day, and outpatient treatment. Their private 85-bed facility offers free WiFi, a bedside phone, a TV with Foxtel, and snacks.

Aurora Kellyville Memorial Park admits clients using referrals from their GP or treating doctor to a psychiatrist at Aurora. Conditions they treat include ADHD, anger, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, OCD, personality disorders, PTSD, alcohol and drug addiction, gambling, gaming addiction, and co-occurring disorders.

Parking and Transportation

Aurora Kellyville Private Hospital is 40 kilometers from central Sydney and accessible from there using bus routes 200 and 299. The bus stop near Aurora Kellyville Private Hospital are on Memorial Avenue.

Visitors, day patients, and staff can use the parking.

Visits

Aurora welcomes and encourages visitors. They hold information sessions for caretakers each Friday from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Regular visiting hours are 4 to 7 p.m. each day.

They recommend that visitors stay at The Hills Lodge nearby if they need a hotel.

Treatment Programs

Aurora Kellyville Private Hospital uses traditional evidence-based therapies like acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and mindfulness alongside experiential therapies like art therapy and physical workouts like boxing, martial arts, tai chi, and circuit training.

Their programs include a young adults area for patients 18-25, parental training, family counseling programs, women-specific therapy, therapy that considers aging-related concerns like Alzheimer's and dementia in adults 60+, special care for veterans and widows of veterans, strength and resilience training, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Their young adults area, The Loft, has a colorful, industrial feel that specifically avoids looking like a hospital.

TMS treatment lasts for about 4 weeks with 20-30 treatments. To track the progress of TMS, Aurora administers questionnaires to clients on their mental state at the beginning of treatment, after 2 weeks of treatment, after all 4 weeks of treatment, and 2 weeks after treatment was completed.

Their treatment for substance use disorders is abstinence-based.

Although Aurora Kellyville Private Hospital isn't a religious facility, they can incorporate religious care by clergy upon request.

Additional Locations

Aurora operates 16 clinics across Australia that offer similar treatments with specialized tracks for older and younger adults.