❓ The Minister for Health provides an update on initiatives to improve housing for people with mental health problems, including the completion of Jacaranda House and additional mental health beds at the Marian Centre.
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HOUSING - PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
Can the minister please update the house on the state government’s initiatives to improve housing for people with mental health problems? Mr J.A. McGINTY
Can the minister please update the house on the state government’s initiatives to improve housing for people with mental health problems? Mr J.A. McGINTY
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I thank the member for Victoria Park for the question. I am happy to advise the house of two significant developments in the need to improve mental health care for people with mental health conditions in Western Australia. The first of these is the completion of the construction of Jacaranda House in Armadale. Members will be aware of the very protracted series of issues associated with the closure of the Whitby Falls hostel in Mundijong that began under the previous government and continued under our government. There are currently five residents at the Whitby Falls hostel. A little over a year ago, we undertook to construct purpose-built accommodation near Armadale hospital for these five residents. Those five residents are the only residents currently at the Whitby Falls hostel, and the hostel will close following their move to this purpose-built accommodation. It consists of five bedrooms, two disability-access bathrooms, two toilets and a combined kitchen-dining-family room, with a separate lounge, office and laundry, and staff accommodation and storage facilities. There will be two staff on duty each morning and each afternoon, and one staff on duty overnight. The service is scheduled to open in June 2007, after an open day for staff and nearby neighbours to view the facility has been made available. The second very significant development, which is designed to provide better accommodation for people with acute mental health conditions and ease congestion in emergency departments, is the approval to take over responsibility for providing 10 additional public mental health beds as part of a 31-bed psychiatric facility known as the Marian Centre in Cambridge Street, Wembley. This service began last month and is already operating at capacity. This will enable an extra 10 mental health patients to be properly accommodated and, hopefully, thereby reduce the length of stay in emergency departments. Over the next few months hundreds of additional beds, particularly in the community, will come on stream as this construction finishes. The first of these will be constructed in Perth’s eastern suburbs. The facility is due for completion in July this year. Progressively, these very significant investments that have been made through both the Department of Housing and Works and the Department of Health will come on stream and, hopefully, provide much needed respite for people with mental illnesses.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: I thank the member for Victoria Park for the question. I am happy to advise the house of two significant developments in the need to improve mental health care for people with mental health conditions in Western Australia. The first of these is the completion of the construction of Jacaranda House in Armadale. Members will be aware of the very protracted series of issues associated with the closure of the Whitby Falls hostel in Mundijong that began under the previous government and continued under our government. There are currently five residents at the Whitby Falls hostel. A little over a year ago, we undertook to construct purpose-built accommodation near Armadale hospital for these five residents. Those five residents are the only residents currently at the Whitby Falls hostel, and the hostel will close following their move to this purpose-built accommodation. It consists of five bedrooms, two disability-access bathrooms, two toilets and a combined kitchen-dining-family room, with a separate lounge, office and laundry, and staff accommodation and storage facilities. There will be two staff on duty each morning and each afternoon, and one staff on duty overnight. The service is scheduled to open in June 2007, after an open day for staff and nearby neighbours to view the facility has been made available. The second very significant development, which is designed to provide better accommodation for people with acute mental health conditions and ease congestion in emergency departments, is the approval to take over responsibility for providing 10 additional public mental health beds as part of a 31-bed psychiatric facility known as the Marian Centre in Cambridge Street, Wembley. This service began last month and is already operating at capacity. This will enable an extra 10 mental health patients to be properly accommodated and, hopefully, thereby reduce the length of stay in emergency departments. Over the next few months hundreds of additional beds, particularly in the community, will come on stream as this construction finishes. The first of these will be constructed in Perth’s eastern suburbs. The facility is due for completion in July this year. Progressively, these very significant investments that have been made through both the Department of Housing and Works and the Department of Health will come on stream and, hopefully, provide much needed respite for people with mental illnesses.
I thank the member for Victoria Park for the question. I am happy to advise the house of two significant developments in the need to improve mental health care for people with mental health conditions in Western Australia. The first of these is the completion of the construction of Jacaranda House in Armadale. Members will be aware of the very protracted series of issues associated with the closure of the Whitby Falls hostel in Mundijong that began under the previous government and continued under our government. There are currently five residents at the Whitby Falls hostel. A little over a year ago, we undertook to construct purpose-built accommodation near Armadale hospital for these five residents. Those five residents are the only residents currently at the Whitby Falls hostel, and the hostel will close following their move to this purpose-built accommodation. It consists of five bedrooms, two disability-access bathrooms, two toilets and a combined kitchen-dining-family room, with a separate lounge, office and laundry, and staff accommodation and storage facilities. There will be two staff on duty each morning and each afternoon, and one staff on duty overnight. The service is scheduled to open in June 2007, after an open day for staff and nearby neighbours to view the facility has been made available. The second very significant development, which is designed to provide better accommodation for people with acute mental health conditions and ease congestion in emergency departments, is the approval to take over responsibility for providing 10 additional public mental health beds as part of a 31-bed psychiatric facility known as the Marian Centre in Cambridge Street, Wembley. This service began last month and is already operating at capacity. This will enable an extra 10 mental health patients to be properly accommodated and, hopefully, thereby reduce the length of stay in emergency departments. Over the next few months hundreds of additional beds, particularly in the community, will come on stream as this construction finishes. The first of these will be constructed in Perth’s eastern suburbs. The facility is due for completion in July this year. Progressively, these very significant investments that have been made through both the Department of Housing and Works and the Department of Health will come on stream and, hopefully, provide much needed respite for people with mental illnesses.
The second very significant development, which is designed to provide better accommodation for people with acute mental health conditions and ease congestion in emergency departments, is the approval to take over responsibility for providing 10 additional public mental health beds as part of a 31-bed psychiatric facility known as the Marian Centre in Cambridge Street, Wembley. This service began last month and is already operating at capacity. This will enable an extra 10 mental health patients to be properly accommodated and, hopefully, thereby reduce the length of stay in emergency departments. Over the next few months hundreds of additional beds, particularly in the community, will come on stream as this construction finishes. The first of these will be constructed in Perth’s eastern suburbs. The facility is due for completion in July this year. Progressively, these very significant investments that have been made through both the Department of Housing and Works and the Department of Health will come on stream and, hopefully, provide much needed respite for people with mental illnesses.
Over the next few months hundreds of additional beds, particularly in the community, will come on stream as this construction finishes. The first of these will be constructed in Perth’s eastern suburbs. The facility is due for completion in July this year. Progressively, these very significant investments that have been made through both the Department of Housing and Works and the Department of Health will come on stream and, hopefully, provide much needed respite for people with mental illnesses.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: I thank the member for Victoria Park for the question. I am happy to advise the house of two significant developments in the need to improve mental health care for people with mental health conditions in Western Australia. The first of these is the completion of the construction of Jacaranda House in Armadale. Members will be aware of the very protracted series of issues associated with the closure of the Whitby Falls hostel in Mundijong that began under the previous government and continued under our government. There are currently five residents at the Whitby Falls hostel. A little over a year ago, we undertook to construct purpose-built accommodation near Armadale hospital for these five residents. Those five residents are the only residents currently at the Whitby Falls hostel, and the hostel will close following their move to this purpose-built accommodation. It consists of five bedrooms, two disability-access bathrooms, two toilets and a combined kitchen-dining-family room, with a separate lounge, office and laundry, and staff accommodation and storage facilities. There will be two staff on duty each morning and each afternoon, and one staff on duty overnight. The service is scheduled to open in June 2007, after an open day for staff and nearby neighbours to view the facility has been made available. The second very significant development, which is designed to provide better accommodation for people with acute mental health conditions and ease congestion in emergency departments, is the approval to take over responsibility for providing 10 additional public mental health beds as part of a 31-bed psychiatric facility known as the Marian Centre in Cambridge Street, Wembley. This service began last month and is already operating at capacity. This will enable an extra 10 mental health patients to be properly accommodated and, hopefully, thereby reduce the length of stay in emergency departments. Over the next few months hundreds of additional beds, particularly in the community, will come on stream as this construction finishes. The first of these will be constructed in Perth’s eastern suburbs. The facility is due for completion in July this year. Progressively, these very significant investments that have been made through both the Department of Housing and Works and the Department of Health will come on stream and, hopefully, provide much needed respite for people with mental illnesses.
I thank the member for Victoria Park for the question. I am happy to advise the house of two significant developments in the need to improve mental health care for people with mental health conditions in Western Australia. The first of these is the completion of the construction of Jacaranda House in Armadale. Members will be aware of the very protracted series of issues associated with the closure of the Whitby Falls hostel in Mundijong that began under the previous government and continued under our government. There are currently five residents at the Whitby Falls hostel. A little over a year ago, we undertook to construct purpose-built accommodation near Armadale hospital for these five residents. Those five residents are the only residents currently at the Whitby Falls hostel, and the hostel will close following their move to this purpose-built accommodation. It consists of five bedrooms, two disability-access bathrooms, two toilets and a combined kitchen-dining-family room, with a separate lounge, office and laundry, and staff accommodation and storage facilities. There will be two staff on duty each morning and each afternoon, and one staff on duty overnight. The service is scheduled to open in June 2007, after an open day for staff and nearby neighbours to view the facility has been made available. The second very significant development, which is designed to provide better accommodation for people with acute mental health conditions and ease congestion in emergency departments, is the approval to take over responsibility for providing 10 additional public mental health beds as part of a 31-bed psychiatric facility known as the Marian Centre in Cambridge Street, Wembley. This service began last month and is already operating at capacity. This will enable an extra 10 mental health patients to be properly accommodated and, hopefully, thereby reduce the length of stay in emergency departments. Over the next few months hundreds of additional beds, particularly in the community, will come on stream as this construction finishes. The first of these will be constructed in Perth’s eastern suburbs. The facility is due for completion in July this year. Progressively, these very significant investments that have been made through both the Department of Housing and Works and the Department of Health will come on stream and, hopefully, provide much needed respite for people with mental illnesses.
The second very significant development, which is designed to provide better accommodation for people with acute mental health conditions and ease congestion in emergency departments, is the approval to take over responsibility for providing 10 additional public mental health beds as part of a 31-bed psychiatric facility known as the Marian Centre in Cambridge Street, Wembley. This service began last month and is already operating at capacity. This will enable an extra 10 mental health patients to be properly accommodated and, hopefully, thereby reduce the length of stay in emergency departments. Over the next few months hundreds of additional beds, particularly in the community, will come on stream as this construction finishes. The first of these will be constructed in Perth’s eastern suburbs. The facility is due for completion in July this year. Progressively, these very significant investments that have been made through both the Department of Housing and Works and the Department of Health will come on stream and, hopefully, provide much needed respite for people with mental illnesses.
Over the next few months hundreds of additional beds, particularly in the community, will come on stream as this construction finishes. The first of these will be constructed in Perth’s eastern suburbs. The facility is due for completion in July this year. Progressively, these very significant investments that have been made through both the Department of Housing and Works and the Department of Health will come on stream and, hopefully, provide much needed respite for people with mental illnesses.
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