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Modern aged care facility construction not viable

<p>ACAA chief executive officer, Rod Young</p>

ACAA chief executive officer, Rod Young

Modern, single-room high care facilities are not viable under current conditions, according to three major accounting firms which regularly produce aged care benchmarking reports.

Stewart Brown Business Solutions, James Underwood & Associates and Grant Thornton have issued a joint statement to the Senate’s aged care inquiry.

The three organisations said they wished to clarify their position after information from their respective reports had been used to argue different points.

“Our research confirms that modern, single-room high care services make very poor or negative returns on average,” the statement said.

“These returns are far below the returns achieved in older, shared-room high care services.

“In our opinion, modern, single-room high care services – other than those with extra services approvals – are not viable under current funding and regulatory arrangements.”

The statement was welcomed by industry body, Aged Care Association Australia (ACAA).

“We are pleased that the surveyors have made this statement because it does clarify their knowledge and information that they have gleaned from their survey activities,” said ACAA chief executive officer, Rod Young.

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