Our History
Yulu-Burri-Ba has expanded their services over the years to better improve our communities
The Yulu-Burri-Ba health service began operations in 1984, with a doctor and a nurse making weekly visits to Dunwich on North Stradbroke Island. Since that time, the health services provided have rapidly expanded with Yulu-Burri-Ba now delivering a comprehensive co-ordinated community health service on the island and in Brisbane’s bayside suburbs.
With the realisation of the need for expansion to the mainland, Yulu-Burri-Ba opened a second clinic at Capalaba on the 28th of November, 2011. To achieve its goal to continue to improve access to comprehensive primary health care services in our region, in January 2016, Yulu-Burri-Ba opened a further clinic in Wynnum.
In 2017, the range of social health services provided were expanded to include Family Well-Being services. And again in 2020 Yulu-Burri-Ba launched its Jajum Bajara Program to support our community's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, and babies.
In 2022 Yulu-Burri-Ba opened its Family Services branch in the Capalaba district, allowing the Family Services crew to have a home base and grow even further. Which certainly happened in 2023, when we launched our Kinship and Foster Care program through Family Services.
Additionally in 2023 we combined our Deadly Choices crew into the Family Services Program on a permanent basis.
Yulu-Burri-Ba now has an island base and three mainland access points to deliver a full range of medical and allied health services including dental, optical, physio and podiatry services from our Dunwich, Capalaba and Wynnum clinics.
Yulu-Burri-Ba is exceptionally proud of the service and support provided to its clients, now totalling over 7000. Yulu-Burri-Ba’s philosophy encompasses an Aboriginal perspective of health, to not only focus on ill-health but to cover many of the issues that affect the community.
Yulu-Burri-Ba’s aim is to provide a safe, friendly, confidential and culturally appropriate Aboriginal primary health care services, in line with community needs.