Big Win for Nursing Service Erina based nursing and home care service, Sue Mann’s Nursing and Community Care (SMNCC) has been awarded an allocation of 65 Home Care packages funded by the Commonwealth government. These packages have a recurrent contract value of $1.3 million and will support older Australians living in the Lake Macquarie and Newcastle region to remain living at home by providing a range of in-home support services including nursing, personal care, allied health, domestic assistance, transport and social support. The packages are part of the Commonwealth government’s Living Longer: Living Better aged care reform program and will be provided on a ‘Consumer Directed Care’ model which provides people choice and flexibility in how their care is provided. In the Aged Care Approvals Round 2012-13, there were 106,000 new Home Care packages sought through competitive tender with an allocation of only 5,835 by the Department of Health and Ageing in Australia. With competition extremely high for new packages coupled with an industry that is dominated by the not-for-profit sector providing over 93% of home care packages, Directors Sue Mann and son Andrew Mann said they are very proud of their team with the allocation. “We are looking forward to implementing these packages with our new model of consumer directed care. It is a great opportunity to expand our organisation which delivers care to over 1500 people on the Central Coast and Lower Hunter and provides employment to over 150 staff,” said Andrew Mann. As a family business founded by Sue Mann in 1984 and with a strong management team, culture and loyal workforce, SMNCC is well positioned to grow in the years ahead as the Commonwealth government plans to invest heavily in the home care industry to meet the demands of an ageing population.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:00:00 +0000
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