By Chris Thomson | posted on April 19, 2018
THE Hall and Prior group that operates Albany’s Clarence Estate aged care home will receive $702,267 to start up an around-the-clock in-home nursing service for the city’s palliative care patients.
Last year, The Weekender (‘Stay-at-home palliative care’, November 2, 2017) revealed the WA Country Health Service was seeking operators to bid for the new service that it anticipates will benefit up to 60 patients a month.
Now, The Weekender has learned that Hall and Prior was judged the best of four submissions for the project, and will start delivering the nursing service to homes around Albany for three years from May 1.
The company will take over from Silver Chain, which for the past 20 years has provided a palliative care service on behalf of WACHS.
WACHS Great Southern Regional Director David Naughton said Albany residents of all ages requiring palliative care would be able to access the service.
WACHS has informed medical practitioners, current palliative care patients, families and carers of the change in service provider.
Mr Naughton said the new service would provide patients and carers with better support, and allow patients to die in their own home where possible, if that was their desire.
The WACHS Great Southern Regional Palliative Service, based at Albany Health Campus, can be contacted on (08) 9892 2380.
