Our Goulburn Valley Infrastructure, Construction & Development
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Improving health and wellbeing for the entire community By GV Health CEO, Matt Sharp
It is a very busy and exciting time at GV Health across all our campuses.
Wnew five-year strategic plan, e are about to launch our
which is the start of an ambitious era for our organisation to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for our entire community. Our plan puts our patients and their families at the centre of everything we do and sets out how we will work with our community, our healthcare partners and government to deliver high-quality care for all in the region. The $172 million redevelopment of the Graham Street, Shepparton campus funded by the State Government is well underway, with the new dialysis unit on schedule to be opened by November 2019. The expansion of the emergency department is also tracking well as we double its size. The five-storey inpatient unit tower has risen out of the ground and has become a real beacon as you can see it from almost anywhere in Shepparton. I’m thrilled to see this much-needed redevelopment become
HEALTH FROM UP HIGH… The new $176 million redevelopment of GV Health’s Graham Street, Shepparton campus is well underway. Photo: Katelyn Morse.
a reality. We are also embarking on the planning for the next stage of the redevelopment at the Graham Street campus. We welcome the $26 million funding announcement earlier this year from the Australian Government to invest in an integrated cancer centre at our Graham Street site. This funding will be used to build a new state-of-the-art facility allowing GV Health to expand its current cancer services while introducing new programs and models of care for people in the region with cancer. Our newly redeveloped Waranga Health facility in Rushworth is now fully operational and all residents,
patients and staff from the Waranga Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home have now relocated to the new facility. Waranga Health provides the Rushworth community a flexible facility locating primary, acute, aged care, community health and district nursing services on the one site, making access to health services easier for everyone. GV Health is focused on its continual improvement and will work hard to ensure communities across the Goulburn Valley and beyond have access to the wide range of quality services it deserves for not only today, but for the future.
The Shepparton Adviser - Our Goulburn Valley Building a prosperous region together - August/September 2019