Save the date – look through new Manilla health service

17 November 2010

Manilla residents will get an opportunity to look around the first stage of their new health service next month.

A Community Open Day will be held on Saturday 4 December between 11am to 2pm to allow the community to look around Stage 1 of the new Manilla Multi Purpose Service (MPS) HealthOne. Visitors can come along and enjoy a Devonshire tea and barbecue while the kids meet Santa.

Manilla Health Service Manager Tim Whyte said the Open Day was a chance for the community to have a closer look at the work that’s been done on the new health services so far, and to familiarise themselves with the interim arrangements for accessing health services during construction of the next stage.

“The community has been very patient while construction has been underway during this year,” Mr Whyte said. “Now the first stage is finished we decided it was time to invite everyone along to see what the new MPS will include and what it will look like.”

The first stage of the Manilla MPS facility has provided:

• 20 residential care bedrooms, complete with ensuites
• New lounge, dining and activities rooms for residents
• Temporary two-bay emergency department
• Secure landscaped sensory garden for residents
• Balconies off the Namoi and Acacia wings providing views over the neighbouring river and valley
• Office space and staff rooms
• New industrial kitchen
• New loading dock area

The Manilla MPS Community Open Day will also be an opportunity for the community to recognise the hard work of the Manilla Health Service staff during the first stage of work.

The next stage of the MPS development will begin in January 2011, when the remaining section of the former health service is demolished. Construction of Stage 2 of the new Manilla MPS HealthOne will begin soon after.

The final construction work will provide new acute care rooms, new birthing suites and rooms for antenatal and postnatal maternity services, new two-bay emergency department, clinic rooms for Manilla GPs and other visiting medical specialists and treatment rooms for community health.

Construction is on track and is expected to be complete by early 2012.

Contact: Emma Gibbs

Phone: (02) 6767 7137 or 0428 114 767