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In this wrap: St Basil’s expands into home care; new centre inspired by CHSP wellness focus; Estia adds four more facilities to growing portfolio.
In this wrap:
- St Basil’s expands into home care
- New centre inspired by CHSP wellness focus
- Estia adds four more facilities to growing portfolio
St Basil’s expands into home care
Aged care provider St Basil’s is expanding into home care, with a branding campaign featuring local transport and radio advertising being rolled out to raise the profile of the service.
CEO Father Nicholas Stavropoulos said the not-for-profit organisation would be providing a range of services to the community such as domestic assistance, personal care, social support and basic home maintenance.
In addition to Level 1 and Level 3 government-funded packages, St Basil’s will offer a fee-for-service model in Canberra that applies to any care and support for recipients who would like to have a private arrangement or top up their funded packages, he said.
Dimi Vourliotis, home and community care manager at St Basil’s, said the organisation took part in an initial trial for consumer directed care in 2010. “We are already offering our clients choice of what services they want, control over how they receive them and who provides the support,” she said.
Established more than 60 years ago, St Basil’s is part of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia.
New centre inspired by CHSP wellness focus
Services provider Life Without Borders has opened its new Capalaba Seniors Activity Centre, to provide seniors in Capalaba, Queensland with the latest in social activities.
National manager for LWB’s aged care services Dustin Pham said the centre was prompted by the Commonwealth Home Support Program, as under the new program services would now focus on promoting wellbeing, supporting independence and participation in the community.
“The new wellness concept supports people to re-ignite their skills and gives them the confidence to try new things so they continue to enjoy their lives and feel more satisfied with what they’re achieving” he said.
The new centre includes a music room, craft room for group-activities like card-making and doing puzzles and a reading/quiet room. It also has a large backyard with outdoor area, a glass house and raised garden beds, and a garage that has been set up as an outdoor men’s shed.
All activities are planned to appeal to people who have recently been or are still active and have low to medium additional care needs.
Estia adds four more facilities to growing portfolio
Aged care provider Estia has acquired four aged care facilities in Victoria, bringing the group’s portfolio to 53 facilities and 4,393 operating places.
CEO Paul Gregersen said: “We are continuing to see excellent opportunities for continued growth through single site acquisitions in line with our ambition to add 500 to 1,000 places each year. We have now added 873 places above prospectus forecast within eight months and successfully integrated 13 single facilities into our group since last October.”
The additional 873 places had been acquired for $181.1 million, Estia said.
Mr Gregersen said the return on capital employed was expected to be 27.5 per cent “with an average net price of around $160,000 per bed for the freehold assets, which is in line with the guidance we have been providing to investors.”
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