With more older Australians set to age at home, Australian Unity’s Group Executive for Home Health Prue Bowden is growing the platform beyond home care into more clinical care services – and envisioning the customer and the workforce of the future.
In June last year, Australian Unity split its Independent & Assisted Living platform into two: Home Health and Specialist Care (the latter which includes residential aged care and retirement villages).
Prue oversees the Home Health platform which comprises three divisions:
- the mainstream home care business supporting approximately 10,000 Home Care Packages and 20,000 Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) clients (with the bulk of CHSP clients acquired from the NSW Government in 2015),
- the Indigenous home care business which delivers dedicated and culturally safe home care services into Indigenous communities via a workforce of approximately 270 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees, and
- Remedy Healthcare which delivers integrated healthcare including rehab in the home, hospital substitution programs and telehealth solutions.
“What we are aiming to do is to build an integrated healthcare company, taking advantage of our expertise across three separate, but human centred business areas to maximise our capability and capacity to deliver many more services to support Australians to age well, particularly more clinically-led services that are delivered in the home,” said Prue.
Read the full story in this week’s issue of SATURDAY – subscribe here. And hear Prue speak at the 2023 ‘New Horizons’ LEADERS SUMMIT on Australian Unity’s home care strategy for the future – register here.
