Founded in 1998, Gurgun Bulahnggelah Aboriginal Health – now known as Jullums, Lismore Aboriginal Medical Service – is a growing health service for the Aboriginal community of Lismore and surrounding areas.
The original name means ‘Agree to Walk Together’ and came from the legendary local Elder Fletcher Roberts. The more recent name Jullums comes from the painting Four Jullums (meaning fish) featured on the practice signage.
Jullums is located in a beautiful old home in Uralba Street, near the Lismore Base Hospital and in the heart of Lismore’s health precinct.
Our team includes five part-time General Practitioners assisted by two part-time nurses and an Aboriginal Health Worker as well as an Aboriginal Outreach Worker. Our GPs provide a vast range of capabilities including teaching, public health, women’s health and lifestyle medicine.
We also have access to visiting allied health professionals and specialists including: psychologists, a mental health social worker, dietitian, a diabetic educator, an exercise physiologist, podiatrist, as well as an Obstetrician and Paediatrician.
We manage a wide variety of conditions as well as chronic disease, mental health and alcohol/drug management. We can draw up GP Management plans, Mental Health Treatment Plans and perform Aboriginal Health Checks.
Jullums is now managed by Rekindling The Spirit, an Aboriginal-owned service that caters for the Aboriginal families of Lismore and surrounding areas who are dealing with substance abuse, problems with violent behaviour, and are having difficulty connecting with partners and children. This program has been developed by Greg Telford and other like-minded Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people who are concerned about the legacies being passed on to our children.
