Topic - Aged Care

Peninsula Villages launches new 114-bed residential aged care facility

Apr 01 2019 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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The $30 million three-storey facility will open in late 2020 and will be the community-owned organisation’s fourth development.

All 114 rooms will be private suites with a bathroom, and the new facility will be built by veteran health and aged care construction company, Grindley Builders.

The site will include specialist aged, palliative and dementia care units – and each unit will be accommodated on separate floors to ensure continuity of care between staff and residents.

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