Filipino Health, Beauty and Wellness in Wollongong

APLUS Health Services is a Filipino-owned, NDIS-registered home care agency based in Calderwood in the Illawarra, serving Wollongong and surrounding areas. It provides personal care, respite and dementia care, disability support, support coordination and supported independent living. Its founder is a registered nurse with more than 17 years of experience in the Philippines, New Zealand and Australia, and the agency describes its care as built on Filipino values of warmth and respect.

Coastal Luxe Aesthetics is a nurse-led cosmetic clinic in Fairy Meadow, Wollongong, founded and run by registered nurses Sherlene and Aubry, two Filipinas. It offers cosmetic injectables, skin boosters, facial treatments, microneedling and cosmetic tattoo, and runs lash lift and brow training courses.

Dr Aileen Avenido is a GP at Centre Health Medical Centre Barrack Heights who provides consultations for all general health problems and supports patients with healthy lifestyle goals. She speaks fluent Tagalog in addition to English.

Dr Georgina Salazar is a GP registrar at East Corrimal Medical Centre who trained as a doctor in the Philippines and completed postgraduate training at Wollongong Hospital. Her interests include antenatal care, children's and women's health and preventive care, and she is fluent in English and Filipino (Tagalog).

Dr Welan Dionela is an Australian-trained gastroenterologist and hepatologist who consults at Illawarra Shoalhaven Medical Associates in Wollongong, operates at Wollongong Day Surgery and is a VMO at Wollongong Hospital, with a special interest in chronic liver disease. He was born in the Philippines and is fluent in Tagalog.

Illawarra Medical Services is a family general practice in Berkeley, owned and operated since 2005 by Dr Neill Jover and Dr Myrna Jover, a University of Iloilo medical graduate. Local Filipinos recommend it for its Filipino GPs, and the practice lists Tagalog among its languages.