Topic - Aged Care

$36M required to rebuild outdated Uniting Emu Plains aged care home

Oct 14 2019 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Construction on Uniting Edinglassie’s $36 million redevelopment in Emu Plains (on the outskirts of Sydney) will transform the former layout of two and four-bed shared rooms into five households of 20 single en-suited rooms each.

The builder is Next Constructions.

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