Ltyente Apurte (Santa Teresa)
Phone: (08) 8953 6444
Santa Teresa is an Eastern Arrernte community located about 85km south east of Alice Springs on a half sealed, half unsealed gravel road. With a population of about 500 people, Santa Teresa was awarded the Macdonnell Regional Council’s Tidy Town Award in 2018-19 and 2022. The community has a Primary School, Police Station, Catholic Church, Keringke Art Centre, Health Clinic and Store.
The Santa Teresa Dialysis room was set up for patients who had worked hard to become self-carers and learnt how to do their own dialysis. In 2014, Purple House was approached by members of the Santa Teresa community requesting nurse supported dialysis to give everyone the opportunity to receive dialysis at home.
The NT Government supported the project by providing the dialysis machines and water treatment and the Rotary E-Club of Brindabella and the North Canberra Rotary Club raised $14,000 so that we could buy medical equipment and dialysis chairs. St Vincent’s Hospitals, Caritas and Cabrini originally helped to fund nurse wages for the unit.
The Santa Teresa Dialysis room is part of the Santa Teresa Health Centre who have been a huge support in getting the unit up and running.