Blue Care inducted into Hall of Fame

Not-for-profit service provider Blue Care has been recognised for its contribution to Queensland, being inducted into the 2015 Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame.

Posted August 4th 2015

by Margot White

Providers

<p>Blue Care’s care services extend to people living in their homes, within its residential aged care facilities and retirement living communities.</p> — Blue Care’s care services extend to people living in their homes, within its residential aged care facilities and retirement living communities.

Blue Care Executive Director Robyn Batten says it was an honour to represent Blue Care at the induction last week.

“Blue Care has a proud legacy of assisting Queenslanders and it is an absolute privilege to receive this great honour on behalf of the organisation and staff and volunteers,” she says.

“We’ve always believed in supporting people to remain living at home for as long as possible and have facilitated this since the early days of the Blue Nursing Service 62 years ago,” Ms Batten adds.

As one of Australia’s leading not-for-profit service providers, Blue Care’s care services extend to people living in their homes, within its residential aged care facilities and retirement living communities.

Services Blue Care offers include nursing, personal care and domestic assistance, respite care, allied health services, culturally-appropriate Indigenous services and specialist nursing services including palliative care, wound care and in-home hospital care.

“Blue Care has been part of Queensland communities since the first ‘Blue Nurse’ Sister Olive Crombie boarded a Brisbane tram in 1953 to visit a client in their own home,” Ms Batten says.

“Today our 11,000-strong team of staff and volunteers live and work in more than 80 local communities.

“They touch the lives of 60,000 people each year – from Thursday Island in the far north, to Kingscliff over the border and throughout regional and rural Queensland,” she says.

“Being inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame is a credit to those who worked so tirelessly to establish Blue Care and all those who have helped along the way,” Ms Batten adds.

The Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame is a joint initiative between QUT Business School, State Library of Queensland and the Queensland Library Foundation. It celebrates those organisations and individuals who have enhanced the state’s reputation and economy.

The Hall of Fame space resides within State Library of Queensland and the digital story collection is available online.