About Us

Care that feels like home clinically led, personalised and grounded in dignity.

Wattle and River Home Health was created to raise the standard of the experience of in-home care for older Australians.

We believe people thrive when care is delivered in familiar surroundings, guided by clinicians who truly see them, and shaped around routines that honour identity and capability.

Portrait of Laura Zimmerman, CEO and Nurse PractitionerLaura Zimmerman with her family at a coastal lookout

Our Founder

Laura Zimmerman is a Nurse Practitioner and the Founder and CEO of Wattle and River Home Health. Her career spans advanced practice nursing, diabetes and chronic disease management, telehealth, digital health innovation and rural health reform. She has led clinical programs across Queensland, NSW and nationally, and is known for designing care models that are practical, evidence-based and deeply human.
Before creating Wattle and River, Laura spent more than 14 years working across hospital wards, chronic disease clinics, cardiac rehabilitation, rural general practice and advanced diabetes care. She has coordinated complex care programs, trained clinicians across Australia, and contributed to national reforms as a Principal Investigator with the Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovations and as a JBI Implementation Science Reviewer.
Laura built Wattle and River Home Health to raise the standard of private home care for rural families. Her leadership blends clinical governance, multidisciplinary teamwork and genuine community connection, making care safer, more coordinated and more personal. She holds a Master of Nurse Practitioner from Flinders University and postgraduate qualifications in diabetes education, chronic disease management and health innovation.
Her values remain clear: dignity, respect, evidence and a commitment to helping people stay well at home with the right support around them.

Our Story

Across rural health, chronic disease programs, hospital care and national reforms, one truth became clear:
‍People want to stay at home, and with the right support, many can.
Yet families often struggle to find a service that is:
clinically excellent
warm and personal
flexible
respectful
connected to rural realities
Wattle and River Home Health was built to fill that gap: a modern, boutique home health service blending clinical governance with human connection.
Two people holding hands, one hand resting over the other in supportOlder woman smiling in an armchair at home, holding a book and her glasses

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Our Philosophy

Bespoke and personal

Human focused

Wattle and River Home Health mark: a wattle sprig above a flowing river line

Montessori-informed

Honest and supportive

Clinically led

Our Purpose

To provide care that is:
dignified
safe
personalised
evidence-based
meaningful
human
grounded in connection
Older couple gardening together in a vegetable patch, watering potted flowers

Home health care designed around you: flexible, clinically led and deeply personal.

Wattle and River Home Health was created to raise the standard of the experience of in-home care for older Australians. Wattle and River Home Health offers bespoke, privately funded home health services tailored to each person’s routines, needs and values.

‍1. Personalised Health Care
‍Clinical assessments, chronic disease care, wound care, medication management, post-hospital support, monitoring and coordination.
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‍2. Daily Living Support
‍Respectful assistance with personal care, mobility, meals, routines and safety.
*No cleaning or gardening provided.
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‍3. Connection, Wellness & Lifestyle
‍Nutrition, emotional wellbeing, meaningful engagement and social connection.
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‍4. Dementia & Cognitive Support
‍Montessori-informed routines, therapeutic activities, sensory engagement and family guidance.

How we work together

WattleCare Services, Wattle and River Home Health and Macintyre Health are related businesses under common ownership. If one of them may suit you better, we will tell you which one and why. You are always free to choose any provider, and nothing we offer depends on it.