❓ Question regarding the lack of aged care services in Carnarvon, WA, and the government's plans to address the issue. The response outlines existing provisions and ongoing efforts to attract aged care providers.
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CARNARVON — HEALTH SERVICES
Given the lack of health services in Carnarvon, a town of more than 7 000 residents, and the fact that there is no aged care facility to cater for the elderly, I ask — (1) How many beds are available in Carnarvon Regional Hospital for aged care patients, and what type of care is provided? (2) What is the government doing to provide more hospital beds at Carnarvon for the aged? (3) Has the government any plans in place to attract private sector aged care providers to the town? (4) Given the current boom times in Western Australia, how is it that the frail and elderly in Carnarvon must leave their loved ones in search of an aged care bed in far away centres such as Geraldton or Perth? Hon JON FORD
Given the lack of health services in Carnarvon, a town of more than 7 000 residents, and the fact that there is no aged care facility to cater for the elderly, I ask — (1) How many beds are available in Carnarvon Regional Hospital for aged care patients, and what type of care is provided? (2) What is the government doing to provide more hospital beds at Carnarvon for the aged? (3) Has the government any plans in place to attract private sector aged care providers to the town? (4) Given the current boom times in Western Australia, how is it that the frail and elderly in Carnarvon must leave their loved ones in search of an aged care bed in far away centres such as Geraldton or Perth? Hon JON FORD
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On behalf of the Minister for Child Protection, I thank Hon Wendy Duncan for some notice of this question. The Minister for Health has supplied the following answer — (1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(1) How many beds are available in Carnarvon Regional Hospital for aged care patients, and what type of care is provided? (2) What is the government doing to provide more hospital beds at Carnarvon for the aged? (3) Has the government any plans in place to attract private sector aged care providers to the town? (4) Given the current boom times in Western Australia, how is it that the frail and elderly in Carnarvon must leave their loved ones in search of an aged care bed in far away centres such as Geraldton or Perth? Hon JON FORD replied: On behalf of the Minister for Child Protection, I thank Hon Wendy Duncan for some notice of this question. The Minister for Health has supplied the following answer — (1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(2) What is the government doing to provide more hospital beds at Carnarvon for the aged? (3) Has the government any plans in place to attract private sector aged care providers to the town? (4) Given the current boom times in Western Australia, how is it that the frail and elderly in Carnarvon must leave their loved ones in search of an aged care bed in far away centres such as Geraldton or Perth? Hon JON FORD replied: On behalf of the Minister for Child Protection, I thank Hon Wendy Duncan for some notice of this question. The Minister for Health has supplied the following answer — (1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(3) Has the government any plans in place to attract private sector aged care providers to the town? (4) Given the current boom times in Western Australia, how is it that the frail and elderly in Carnarvon must leave their loved ones in search of an aged care bed in far away centres such as Geraldton or Perth? Hon JON FORD replied: On behalf of the Minister for Child Protection, I thank Hon Wendy Duncan for some notice of this question. The Minister for Health has supplied the following answer — (1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(4) Given the current boom times in Western Australia, how is it that the frail and elderly in Carnarvon must leave their loved ones in search of an aged care bed in far away centres such as Geraldton or Perth? Hon JON FORD replied: On behalf of the Minister for Child Protection, I thank Hon Wendy Duncan for some notice of this question. The Minister for Health has supplied the following answer — (1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
Hon JON FORD replied: On behalf of the Minister for Child Protection, I thank Hon Wendy Duncan for some notice of this question. The Minister for Health has supplied the following answer — (1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
On behalf of the Minister for Child Protection, I thank Hon Wendy Duncan for some notice of this question. The Minister for Health has supplied the following answer — (1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(1) How many beds are available in Carnarvon Regional Hospital for aged care patients, and what type of care is provided? (2) What is the government doing to provide more hospital beds at Carnarvon for the aged? (3) Has the government any plans in place to attract private sector aged care providers to the town? (4) Given the current boom times in Western Australia, how is it that the frail and elderly in Carnarvon must leave their loved ones in search of an aged care bed in far away centres such as Geraldton or Perth? Hon JON FORD replied: On behalf of the Minister for Child Protection, I thank Hon Wendy Duncan for some notice of this question. The Minister for Health has supplied the following answer — (1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(2) What is the government doing to provide more hospital beds at Carnarvon for the aged? (3) Has the government any plans in place to attract private sector aged care providers to the town? (4) Given the current boom times in Western Australia, how is it that the frail and elderly in Carnarvon must leave their loved ones in search of an aged care bed in far away centres such as Geraldton or Perth? Hon JON FORD replied: On behalf of the Minister for Child Protection, I thank Hon Wendy Duncan for some notice of this question. The Minister for Health has supplied the following answer — (1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(3) Has the government any plans in place to attract private sector aged care providers to the town? (4) Given the current boom times in Western Australia, how is it that the frail and elderly in Carnarvon must leave their loved ones in search of an aged care bed in far away centres such as Geraldton or Perth? Hon JON FORD replied: On behalf of the Minister for Child Protection, I thank Hon Wendy Duncan for some notice of this question. The Minister for Health has supplied the following answer — (1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(4) Given the current boom times in Western Australia, how is it that the frail and elderly in Carnarvon must leave their loved ones in search of an aged care bed in far away centres such as Geraldton or Perth? Hon JON FORD replied: On behalf of the Minister for Child Protection, I thank Hon Wendy Duncan for some notice of this question. The Minister for Health has supplied the following answer — (1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
Hon JON FORD replied: On behalf of the Minister for Child Protection, I thank Hon Wendy Duncan for some notice of this question. The Minister for Health has supplied the following answer — (1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
On behalf of the Minister for Child Protection, I thank Hon Wendy Duncan for some notice of this question. The Minister for Health has supplied the following answer — (1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(1) At Carnarvon Regional Hospital there are 14 beds to cater for nursing home-type patients. (2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(2) Providing more hospital beds for aged care persons is not a solution to aged residential care. An acute hospital setting environment is an inappropriate place for aged residents to be housed. The Western Australian Country Health Service previously had an agreement with the Churches of Christ, which is the aged residential care provider in the town, for the residents currently located at the hospital to be transferred to its new facility. The Churches of Christ has now withdrawn its services in the town and the proposed facility was never completed. Given the withdrawal of services by the Churches of Christ, WACHS has been working with the commonwealth government to ensure that a new provider will accommodate the existing residents in Carnarvon. (3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(3) The commonwealth government has advised that it will shortly tender for an aged care residential provider in Carnarvon. (4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
(4) WACHS is currently working with the commonwealth government to find a solution to the aged residential care situation in Carnarvon.
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