Sydney-based HammondCare is inviting public feedback on a long-term plan to demolish the Neringah Hospital site at Wahroonga in Sydney’s Upper North Shore to make way for 57 senior living units.
Eight additional aged care beds would be added to the existing HammondCare Wahroonga aged care home next to the hospital, which was built in the sixties.
The Not For Profit’s plan is to create an integrated health campus providing senior living, aged care, and palliative care. There would also be GP & outpatient clinics (including specialist palliative care clinics run by multidisciplinary teams), 24/7 on-site care, Centre for Positive Ageing, and HammondCare at Home community care.
The 57 self-contained seniors living dwellings will be for people aged 75 and older.
“These dwellings will be designed for people needing more support for independent living than is normally offered at home or in retirement living, with access to on-site health services and nursing staff. They will provide 'ageing in place' opportunity,” said HammondCare.
Neringah Hospital’s palliative care service will be revitalised in a new 18-bed, schedule-3 health facility.
HammondCare is inviting community members and interested stakeholders to attend an information session to learn more about the plans, with two online sessions today from 6-7pm and Thursday, September 1, from midday to 1pm.
Please register your attendance by emailing Ask Wahroonga@hammond.com.au or calling HammondCare on 1300 426666.
An informal drop-in community information session will be held at Neringah Hospital site in Wahroonga on Saturday, September 3, from 10am to 1pm.
