New facility gets official blessing
The East Melbourne site contains the first new bed licences in the City of Melbourne for nearly 20 years.
Mercy Health CEO, John Ballard; Mercy Melbourne Congregation Leader, Sister Kathleen Tierney; Mercy Health Chairman, Julien O’Connell; and The Archbishop of Melbourne, the Most Reverend Denis Hart.
The Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, the Most Reverend Denis Hart has officially blessed a new facility in East Melbourne.
The $20 million Mercy Health facility has 110 places providing high care, low care, specialist dementia care and extra service care.
It is the first time that new residential aged care licences have been commissioned in the City of Melbourne in close to 25 years.
Mercy Health’s CEO, John Ballard said the facility would meet a longstanding need for aged care services in inner Melbourne.
“Mercy Place East Melbourne will help relieve some of the pressure currently on aged care services in the City of Melbourne, providing more local residents with the opportunity to move into care without leaving the area,” he said.
“Mercy Health has a strong mission and ethos of care. We strive to put care first in everything that we do.”
The facility has been built next to the Fitzroy Gardens on the site of the old Mercy Hospital for Women.
It incorporates the latest design and building technology into a home-like living environment to provide for a wide range of resident needs.
The facility has also created over 100 new jobs in Melbourne’s inner city.
Mercy Health plans to open another facility in the City of Melbourne later this year.
Its Parkville aged care centre is being built on site of the old Commonwealth Games Villlage.
