The Diocese of Lismore has announced that St Vincent’s Hospital in Lismore, nearly 750km north of Sydney, will be closed and turned into an aged care home, after delivering healthcare services in the region for more than 100 years.
A statement from St Vincent’s Lismore announced plans to build a new private hospital in the Uralba Street health precinct in Lismore. St Vincent’s has acquired land on Uralba Street, opposite the Lismore Base Hospital, where they will build the new hospital.
The existing hospital on Dalley Street will be converted into an aged care home.
“We already have an aged-care presence, but we will expand on it,” said Greg Isaac, Diocesan Business Manager for the Diocese of Lismore.
“We are working with the local university to improve the programs we are offering to aged people and the support we can give them.
“It is quite ambitious, but we are very excited,” Greg told the ABC.
One aim of the project is to attract new highly skilled medical professionals to the region and to work at St Vincent’s.
The Diocese of Lismore is in the process of purchasing the land for the new hospital and will undertake a competitive process to find a specialist provider to operate it. Once the new hospital is open, the Diocese will commence plans to transform the existing hospital site in Dalley Street into an aged care home.
The SOURCE: It’s good news that Lismore will receive new aged care beds, but they are still some way off.
