The Not For Profit South Australian aged care, retirement living, and home care operator, which is associated with the Uniting Church, is on track to complete its $47 million Westbourne Park aged care redevelopment in 2025, and is poised for further aged care redevelopments and expansion.
The “much needed” renovation of Westbourne Park, which was built in the 1960s and has 121 bed licences, will replace 68 rooms with five new wings. Each wing will be based on the small household model of care.
“We’re really pleased with how it’s going,” Resthaven CEO, Darren Birbeck, told The SOURCE.
Residents are currently still living in the old building, but when the new rooms are complete, residents will move in and the old building will be updated. A central cloister garden is a key feature of the new design, and an underground car park will also be built on the site.
Resthaven is also looking to develop masterplans for its Marion site (10km southwest of the Adelaide city centre), which was built in the 1980s, and its Paradise location (9km northeast of Adelaide’s centre), which contains older buildings. Both sites include residential aged care, retirement living, and home care.
Resthaven also holds land on Smart Road, Modbury, 16km northeast of Adelaide's city centre, but is still determining the best way to use the land.
“We’re waiting a little bit for the dust to settle in terms of what is the deregulation means and what we will build on the site. So, at the moment, that’s probably five years off,” Darren said.
Resthaven recently appointed the former CEO of Warrina Homes, Matthew Cragg, as its first Retirement Living Operations manager to consolidate retirement living sites acquired in the last three years, and to assist in developing the group’s strategic plan.
