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“We’ve got favourable winds”: Regis Aged Care Co-Founder Bryan Dorman’s departing words after 30 years

“I think we’ve got favourable winds for a few years ahead,“ he predicted at the meeting, which was held the day after the Government’s Aged Care Bill passed through parliament

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St. Basil’s NSW/ACT’s three care services given individual identities

The Not For Profit aged care provider, which operates in Sydney’s east and was created by the Greek Orthodox Church, has announced improved food services, the expansion of its home care and community services operations, and revealed new logos. The...

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Government Policy

Calvary Health Care pulls out of SA’s My Home Hospital partnership with Amplar Health

Through the Calvary Amplar Health Joint Venture (CAHJV), Calvary Health Care and Amplar Health have delivered SA Health’s My Home Hospital service, delivering hospital care in the home. The service has been operating for three years and treated more than 17,000 patients, including 2,500 aged care residents.

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Technology

Telstra Health wins second award for aged care risk-identification tool

Australia’s first electronic risk prediction tool for deterioration in aged care residents has won Research Australia’s Digital & Data Health Innovation Award for 2024. The tool uses natural language processing and machine learning to analyse the data and track 36 markers of deterioration.

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Government Policy

The $18M contract to operate My Aged Care – the website with 56% customer satisfaction

The Department of Health and Aged Care has awarded digital consultants Liquid Interactive a $4.9 million extension on their contract to “operate and enhance” the My Aged Care website. The move takes the 2.5-year contract to an overall value of...

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Development

mecwacare’s $30M Ballan VIC aged care redevelopment to begin in January

Construction on the site in Ballan site, 80km west of Melbourne, is expected to start in January, with the $30 million redevelopment set to be completed mid-way through 2026.

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More than 1,000 aged care residents have COVID-19 two years after restrictions were lifted

“A new wave of transmission may have begun” for the COVID-19 virus, according to the Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report.

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Sector Moves & People

38 newly qualified aged care staff seek job opportunities in Australia

Labour hire and recruitment firm Labour Solutions Australia (LSA) has trained 100 aged care workers in Honiara, the Solomon Islands, this year, and has a pool of workers with Cert III qualifications seeking employment as soon as January.

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Sector Moves & People

Bupa and Ramsay Health Care partner on unique 3-month nurse exchange

Graduates nurses employed with Bupa Villages and Aged Care and Ramsay Health Care will have the opportunity to swap places on three-month exchanges under a new partnership set to begin next year.

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Residential aged care earnings improved in Q4 2023-24 but storm clouds ahead

The earnings of residential aged care homes is likely to come under pressure in the current financial year as the majority of providers still fail to meet both mandatory care minute and 24/7 RN requirements and pressure mounts from the Government to...

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NSW Supreme Court jury finds police officer Kristian White guilty of manslaughter of aged care resident Clare Nowland

After an eight-day trial in the NSW Supreme Court, the jury began deliberations last Wednesday, taking four days to unanimously decide the 34-year-old Senior Constable was guilty of the manslaughter of 95-year-old Clare Nowland, after he Tasered her when she held up a knife up to him during an altercation in her Cooma aged care home, 114km south of Canberra.

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27 Nov 2024

Home Care

Govt to release 83,000 Home Care Packages in 2025-2026 with 76,000 on the wait list

The Manager of Government Business in the Senate and Minister for Finance, Senator Katy Gallagher, revealed that 83,000 Home Care Packages are due to be released in 2025-26, the largest number released in a single year, in response to questioning from Shadow Minister for Aged Care Anne Ruston in the Senate last Thursday.

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