Improved facilities thanks to grants

TALBOT Place is one of fifty aged care centres around the state set to receive funding for facility upgrades.

Sharing in $30 million in funding, the aged care facility will receive $545,000 for capital works including kitchen, laundry and en-suite refurbishments and updates to the garden.

Member for Wendouree Juliana Addison and Member for Buninyong Michaela Settle joined Ballarat Health Services executive director of aged operations Jodie Cranham to announce State Government grant.

Ms Cranham said they were honoured and thankful for the funding as it will make a huge difference to both residents and staff.

“It’s really important to bring some joy back into the lives of our residents, it’s been a tough year,” she said.

“We’re hoping to start the planning process straight away and then we’ll work through the COVID-safe plans around bringing work men into the facility, it will be a staged process.

“Our ideal vision into the future is state of the art facilities for our aged care population and consolidating that across the Ballarat area.”

Now more than ever, Ms Addison said this investment in aged care in the Ballarat region is very welcome indeed.

“We are very proud of the high care provided by Ballarat Health Services in the aged care space,” she said.

“This upgrade will mean that the quality of life and the care being able to be provided for residents at Talbot Place will be even better.”

Ms Settle added, “This announcement is fantastic, it means that our parents, our grandparents will get the care and dignity that they deserve in their later years.”