Aged Care

Only in SATURDAY: Does BaptistCare’s merger provide a blueprint for Not For Profit consolidation?

Sep 04 2025 Updated 3 hours ago

Caroline Egan

1 min read

The merger of BaptistCare (NSW, ACT, WA), Baptcare (VIC, SA, TAS), and Baptist Care SA in November 2024 has created a $1.3 billion giant. In the latest edition of SATURDAY, we speak to CEO Charles Moore who believes it could set the template for how Not For Profits survive in today's customer-driven market.

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The guru of aged care: retirement living’s future is private aged care

The retirement sector is going to have to move into assisted living and ultimately private aged care. Baby Boomers, now aged 61-79 now, will demand it. With the funnelling of older Australians into residential aged care already hitting full...

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Ian Horswill

26 Aug 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Land lease operator Lincoln Place buys site in Yeppoon, QLD, for its biggest estate

In July 2023, Lincoln Place founders Nicholas Collishaw and Ben Hindmarsh told The Weekly SOURCE they expected to build in scale to be in the “top three in the (land lease) sector” Their latest acquisition - a 31.25ha site in the Yeppoon suburb...

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NSW retirement village operators now required to file annual capital maintenance report

The NSW Government has finalised and published the Retirement Villages Regulation 2025 (NSW), bringing in a number of key changes for operators.

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Ian Horswill

02 Sep 2025

Opinion

Aged care isn’t “investable” until the numbers stack up

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler has been talking up aged care. In back-to-back ABC interviews last week, he dropped the word “investable” more times than a real estate agent at a Saturday auction. According to Butler, the Government has done...

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Lauren Broomham

28 Aug 2025

St Vincent’s Health Australia still determining what data taken by hacker

“We are managing some important network disruptions as part of our remediation works,“ St Vincent’s Health Australia said in its latest statement

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Ian Horswill

10 Jan 2024

The Daily RESOURCE

Aged care homes on Sydney’s Northern Beaches directed to ban visitors after NSW records five new COVID-19 cases – one an aged care worker

NSW has recorded a further five COVID-19 cases overnight after a 45-year-old man was the first confirmed case of community transmission in more than two weeks on Wednesday. NSW Health has confirmed two Northern Beaches residents returned positive...

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The Weekly Source

17 Dec 2020

The Daily RESOURCE

Aged care regulator notches up record 5,500 assessments in September quarter – but most contacts carried out remotely

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The Weekly Source

17 Dec 2020

The Daily RESOURCE

Aged Care Minister pledges to release reports into COVID outbreaks at St Basil’s and Heritage Care’s Epping Gardens before Christmas – confirms he wants to stay in portfolio

As we reported here last week, Labor has been pushing the Government to release the independent reports which were completed in November and were due to be released on 30 November (three weeks ago). St. Basil’s Home for the Aged in Fawkner and...

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The Weekly Source

17 Dec 2020