State run nursing homes to stay in public ownership
New South Wales Health Minister, Carmel Tebbutt, has announced the Carramar Nursing Home in Leeton and homes at Holbrook and Corowa will stay in the public sector, as reported by ABC News.
“The decision to retain the Carramar facility at Leeton recognises the importance of nursing homes in regional and rural areas and the difficulty in developing a financially viable deal to transfer small facilities while still meeting the Government’s commitments and requirements to maintain levels of service,” she said.
Greater Hume Shire Mayor, Denise Osborne, says it is great news for the nursing home residents, their families and local communities.
“The community and council put a lot of effort into informing the NSW Health Department of just what the issues may be should this service be lost to the community,” she said.
“Or the fact that we actually potentially could have been operators ourselves, investigated that fully and found that we just could not do it.
“It means that they now are secure in the knowledge that these beds aren’t going to be sold off.”
