The town of Quirindi in the NSW North West Slopes is offering three months’ free rent to entice a new GP, in order to keep its aged care home running.

The Eloura home (above), run by community-based provider Quirindi Care Services (QCS), is losing its GP, who treats a quarter of the home’s current 58 residents; without a new GP available, the home will have to turn away new clients.

“Each resident in the facility is worth in the order of $100,000 a year – as we lose residents, we lose financial viability,” QCS CEO Mike Lomax (pictured) told The Guardian, adding that the home is losing $2,500 per day and needs 62 residents to stay viable.

“There’s a period out there where we’re just going to have to say we can’t continue.”

QCS earlier this year sold off two unprofitable properties, neither of which had been used for aged care in some time, in order to remain afloat.