Topic - Aged Care

Regional NSW aged care facility to be converted into private retirement village

May 16 2017 Updated May 3, 2023

Antonia Norris

1 min read

The former Southern Cross Care aged care facility in central Albury, 550km from Sydney, will be converted from 16 existing one-bedroom units into eight two-bedroom apartments.

Niccolo Polo Pty Ltd has lodged the $520,000 development application to redevelop the site, formerly known as Larkins Court, which has been empty for several years.

Credit: Border Mail

Estia Health buys seven homes from David Di Pilla’s Aurrum Aged Care

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Ian Horswill

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Government Policy

11 aged care providers ‘named and shamed’ by the regulator for failing care minute targets

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Caroline Egan

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Government Policy

Inspector-General restates disappointment in continued rationing of aged care: Ian Yates AM’s parting statement

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Adrian Puljich has approval for Australia’s first vertical land lease lifestyle resort

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Ian Horswill

14 Jan 2025

Meet the sector’s innovators in the final issue of SATURDAY magazine for 2024

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Chris Baynes

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News & Issues

StewartBrown Partner Stuart Hutcheon to address ACCPA about Retirement Living Performance Report

The highly impressive initial response by the sector to the news the widely respected aged https://www. linkedin. com/in/david-gallery-9a887b13/care benchmarking accountant is providing an independent survey and report for the advocacy of the...

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Ian Horswill

18 Nov 2024

News & Issues

Retirement Living Council to significantly cut price of Code of Conduct subscription to support operator sign up

Executive Director Daniel Gannon said it is time to engage all village operators to participate – it is simply not good enough that less than 40% of retirement villages are subscribers to its Code of Conduct launched six years ago. He states that...

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Ian Horswill

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