Two nursing homes in Bendigo Health's Gibson Street Complex will recieve upgrades as a result of $1,825,310 in state government funding.
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The $30 million state government package plans to upgrade more than 50 Victorian residential aged care facilities.
Bendigo Health chair Bob Cameron said the renovations will provide a greater level of comfort and meal options for residents across both facilities.
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"Increasing the size of the multi-purpose activity room at Joan Pinder Nursing Home allows more people to do things like musical therapy, which improves our residents' quality of life," he said.
"The funding is part of a broader push by Bendigo Health in recent years to modernise our residential care facilities."
Maryborough District Health Service will improve dementia-specific needs at its Wattle Rise facility which received $1,258,000.
"Wattle Rise will utilise the funds will improve the internal layout of the building based on dementia design principles, as well as converting shared bathrooms to single bathrooms, further improving resident experience but also privacy," MDHS acting chief executive Nikola Allan said.
Aged-care facilities in Maldon, Castlemaine, Echuca and Heathcote also received funding.
Mountview Nursing Home in Maldon will use $55,000 to establish a garden for high-care dementia patients while $362,490 will go to the Heathcote Aged Care Service and Mount Alexander Hospital will get $100,000.
Echuca Regional Health's Glanville Village will receive $498,298.