PAC: New plans for Scottish hospital site but not everyone happy

Jul 12 2010 Updated July 4, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Presbyterian Aged Care (PAC) has drawn up new plans to reflect community consultation but there is still opposition from heritage campaigners to the size of the project. PAC is redeveloping the site to provide a target number of 105 aged care beds and 90 seniors independent living units.

Keyton’s thought leadership in a sea of misunderstanding on what retirement villages are

Why has Keyton for the second year financed a Future of Retirement Living roundtable in Canberra plus a full page in the Australian? They identify two major problems: bureaucrats still don’t understand what retirement villages are and don’t...

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Government Policy

No excuse for providers to not be ready on 1 November: Aged Care Minister Sam Rae

Aged Care Minister Sam Rae has told ABC radio the Aged Care Rules have been in place for “a significant amount of time” and the Government has been listening to and supporting to the sector, “so, there really isn’t an excuse from any provider to not be prepared for 1 November”.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Aged care consolidation continues: Regis Aged Care on the march

The ASX-listed operator has entered into binding agreements to acquire family-owned OC Health’s two remaining aged care homes for $45 million plus a $36 million liability for RADs. The purchase of Ocean Mist, in Torquay, a seaside town southwest of...

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Caroline Egan

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Opinion

Aged care beds going backwards – where’s the outrage?

StewartBrown just dropped a number that should jolt the sector: average time on a Home Care Package has plunged from 3.6 years in FY24 to 2.4 in FY25. That’s not a tweak – it’s a cliff. And it speaks to the same uncomfortable truth across...

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Lauren Broomham

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Aged care operator Hall & Prior in historic first

The $89 million Sister Kate’s Health and Aged Care Facility, on the in Queens Park, 11km from the CBD, will be developed by Hall & Prior Health & Aged Care Group in partnership with Sister Kate’s Children 1934–1953 Aboriginal...

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Uniting NSW.ACT and Wyanga Aboriginal Aged Care to build aged care home afer buying site for $1

The City of Sydney Council will award the site, currently a $20 million 55-space car park in Sydney’s inner west, to the Uniting NSW.ACT and Wyanga Aboriginal Aged Care for a nominal fee of $1.

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“One-size-fits-all reform will shrink rural aged care,” warns regional provider

Regional aged care models risk being collateral damage under the new Support at Home system, with co-contribution rules and transport pricing threatening both consumer access and provider viability, warns Staying in Place coordinator Helen Morton...

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Government considering low-cost funding to help aged care operators build: Sam Rae

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