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Aged Care

Catholic Healthcare to close St Francis Aged Care in regional NSW

Catholic Healthcare will shut the 42-bed St Francis Aged Care in the NSW Northern Rivers, saying the 42-bed home is “no longer suitable for the future care needs of the community.”

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Aged Care

Nurses’ union launches aged care review, alleges providers are gaming care minute targets

Australia’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), will conduct a nationwide “pulse check” of aged care, drawing on frontline feedback from nurses and care workers.

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Development

St Jude’s Health Care Services’ Perth residential aged care expansion

Perth-based St Jude’s Health Care Services has been named as developer of the aged care facility to be built alongside Providence Lifestyle Wattle Grove retirement village, and the operator has also lodged plans to build a two-storey extension of its existing Midlands Nursing Home.

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16 Oct 2025

Support grows to keep CHSP beyond 2027

Calls are growing to keep the Commonwealth Home Support Programmed (CHSP) beyond 2027 – and the Government still has no plan or date to fold it into Support at Home.

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The three aged care bombshells from Senate Estimates

Last week’s Senate Estimates hearing – held just three weeks before sweeping reforms roll out – gave politicians the chance to ask Government heavyweights the questions they’re getting from constituents and to interrogate the once-in-a-generation changes.

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Aged care’s remoteness tool “not fit for purpose,” consultation finds

The Government’s review of the Modified Monash Model (MMM) – used to allocate rural, regional and remote aged care funding – has found the tool is “useful but limited” and, in its current form, “not fit for purpose” for aged care.

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Home Care

Countdown to 1 November: Home care customers “incredibly confused” by co-contributions

With the new Aged Care Act just two weeks away, Community Vision CEO Yvonne Timson says the Perth Not For Profit’s priority is helping its 150 Home Care Package clients make sense of new pricing and budgets.

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Aged care visa deal brings just 249 overseas workers in 2.5 years

The Aged Care Industry Labour Agreement (ACILA) program – central to the Federal Government’s plan to ease aged care workforce shortages – has fallen well short, with only 249 overseas recruits arriving since May 2023, according to a new report from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA).

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Prestige Inhome Care takes on Vision Australia’s Home Care Packages

Prestige Inhome Care has assumed management of Vision Australia’s Home Care Package (HCP) clients, effective 1 October 2025.

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Sector Moves & People

Columbia Aged Care CEO Lucy O’Flaherty steps down

Lucy O’Flaherty will step down as CEO of Sydney-based private operator Columbia Aged Care at year’s end to become Chief Executive of Not For Profit Primary Health Tasmania.

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“Three whole wards” can’t be discharged: Premier ramps up call for aged care funding

Tasmania’s Premier Jeremy Rockliff says the number of hospital patients medically cleared but unable to be discharged would “fill three full wards,” intensifying pressure on the Commonwealth to lift investment in aged care and disability supports.

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Under the hood of Services Australia’s new aged care systems – and good news

When a leading WA provider told The Weekly SOURCE they couldn’t see Support at Home contribution rates by 1 October – the Reform Roadmap deadline – we asked Services Australia for comment.

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