Healthcare Australia: Staffing business up for sale?

Jul 27 2010 Updated July 4, 2023

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Champ, a private equity firm, is rumoured to have begun looking for buyers for Healthcare Australia (HCA), the nation's largest nursing and aged care staffing business.

These new retirement villages show providing care is here and now

Gone are the days when retirement living was defined by community centres, swimming pools and bowling greens. While these amenities still exist – the provision of care is now a core part of the value proposition. Hyegrove Willoughby on Sydney’s...

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Ian Horswill

07 Oct 2025

Home Care

“Not a single additional Home Care Package has entered the system”: Senate Inquiry slams delays

Deep in the Report on the Senate Inquiry into Aged Care Service Delivery, released on Wednesday, is a startling revelation. “It is completely unacceptable that at the time of writing this report, and more than three weeks after the Government...

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Caroline Egan

02 Oct 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Bain Capital assesses what’s best for fattened Estia Health 23 months after $838M buy

The US-based private investor is reportedly believed to have contracted investment bank Barrrenjoey to see if its residential aged care business can be sold for a sizeable profit or should be floated on the ASX. The Australian, which reported Bain...

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Ian Horswill

09 Oct 2025

Funding

21 aged care homes’ worth of hospital patients stuck waiting for discharge

As Premiers and Health Ministers battle Canberra over hospital funding, a new report has revealed a key reason costs are surging: thousands of older Australians remain stranded in hospital beds because there’s nowhere else for them to go.

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Caroline Egan

08 Oct 2025

The retirement village identity crisis

It is with great interest we are following the developments in South Australia regarding the planning classification of retirement villages as ‘essential infrastructure’. The catalyst? Senior Australians locked in hospital beds with no place to...

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James Wiltshire

14 Oct 2025

Retirement and Community Living

Developments

Providence Lifestyle files two DAs for over 500 land lease homes in WA

Providence Lifestyle – founded in 2020 by John Green, Brad Denison, James Turnbull and John Wood – has lodged two development applications in Western Australia totalling 504 over-50s homes.

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Ian Horswill

13 Oct 2025

Community Living

Sector Moves & People

Lifestyle Communities CFO Darren Rowland resigns, with successor named

Lifestyle Communities has announced the resignation of Chief Financial Officer (and Joint Company Secretary) Darren Rowland, effective end of January 2026. He has served as CFO since May 2018.

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Ian Horswill

13 Oct 2025

Community Living

Retirement and Community Living

Thousands of NSW village residents to benefit from embedded network price cap

Embedded electricity networks – common in retirement villages, land lease communities, apartment blocks and shopping centres – supply multiple premises from a single grid connection and may include electricity, gas, hot water, chilled water or air conditioning. An estimated 95,000 NSW households are covered by these arrangements.

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Ian Horswill

13 Oct 2025