The Not For Profit has invested $53.4 million in two newly opened residential aged care wings in Tasmania.
The Waterfront Wing at Rosetta Community, in Strathaven, 10km northwest of the Hobart city centre, was opened on 5 February. The Fuchsia and Sassafras Wing at Lillian Martin in Mornington, 8km northeast of the Hobart CBD, opened on 6 February. Both aged care homes have been in operation for more than half a century – Strathaven since 1957 and Lillian Martin since 1960.
Blomeley, Reverend David Fotheringham,
Uniting AgeWell CEO Andrew
Kinnersly, Board Chair Raelene
Thompson, Simon Behrakis MP
Uniting AgeWell CEO Andrew Kinnersly said the organisation has invested $73 million in Tasmanian projects in response to growing need at a time when other providers put a 'capital freeze' on developments.
Also in the works are another new wing under construction at Sorell Community, Ningana, 25km northeast of Hobart, and a specialist AgeWell Gym, which will open in the new Uniting AgeWell Community Hub in Rosny Park, 5km north of the Hobart CBD, in April.
Uniting AgeWell operates 20 aged care homes (12 in VIC, eight in TAS), as well as retirement villages, independent living units, a growing home care operation, community and social housing, and respite care in Victoria and Tasmania.
Late last year, Uniting AgeWell sold a vacant 31-bed aged care home in Brighton, one of Melbourne's most affluent suburbs, for $16.5 million.
