Topic - Aged Care

Opal Aged Care opens $41M Blacktown facility

Nov 19 2018 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Hon Ed Husic MP, Opal Blacktown residents Roy Pieme and Burt Owen and Blacktown City Mayor Stephen Bali.

The 149-bed facility in Blacktown’s CBD, 34km west of the CBD, is part of a $300 million investment by the operator on eight new homes across western Sydney.

The other locations include Bankstown, Toongabbie, Winston Hills, Penrith, Wentworthville and Cabramatta.

The Blacktown facility also features a specialist memory support unit with a landscaped sensory garden.

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