Aged care renovations expected throughout next year
A Woy Woy aged care home has announced its expectations for its renovations for the second half of next year.
Work will begin on the refurbishment of the two southern wings of Blue Wave Living "later next year", according to chief executive Mr Matt Downie.
"When we undertake the southern wing refurbishment, we will also be building the main link between the two buildings.
"This will necessitate a change to our temporary link between the two buildings."
Mr Downie said there would be "a soft opening" of the north east wing early in the year, making available the living environment to the household area and the six additional bedrooms built as part of that wing.
"New spaces will progressively open up through next year."
Mr Downie said existing southern wing residents would not be asked to relocate until the majority of the new rooms were available, including the western extension.
"The western extension and refurbishment of existing bedrooms in the north west wing will be completed by mid next year.
"It will be at that stage we will ask residents in our two southern wings (rooms 20 to 43 inclusive), to relocate into one of the new bedrooms in the extension or refurbished wing."
Mr Downie said it was pleasing that work was beginning again in the courtyard spaces, including the space between the BlueWave building (Palm Sails wing) and the new eastern extension.
"These outdoor spaces will be a fantastic addition to the environment our elders in care can enjoy."
SOURCE:
Newsletter, 30 Nov 2022
Matt Downie, Blue Wave Living
Our building works continues to progress well and its been a very busy site this past month. As per our recent update, we expect practical completion of our Eastern extension to occur sometime in January - and then occupancy to be available to us sometime in February following final certification processes and giving us time to put in place equipment and systems required to be operational.
So, as mentioned before, whilst we still have some distance to go with our on-going works, residents in care will be able to begin using some of the new spaces early in the new year. Other new spaces will progressively open up through next year and on-going.
Our newly rebuilt commercial kitchen is due to be completed within the week, and the process of transitioning back to this space will then begin. This will see kitchen operations move out of The Shores building. It is a fantastic new large space the catering team will now enjoy, just in time for the Christmas period, and I know they are all looking forward to operationalising this new space. It will give us more capacity to produce some amazing meals, with some fantastic new equipment going in for the team to utilise.