Kyabam is among 128 projects at regional health services across northern Victoria that will be upgraded, expanded and modernised .
Minister for Health Mary-Anne Thomas and Member for Northern Victoria Mark Gepp last week announced that $70 million would be spend across rural and regional Victoria.
A $322,500 project at KDHS is expected to provide a response to growing demand by expanding its primary health service.
The project will include a new primary health building to add 10 additional clinical consulting rooms, a meeting room, multipurpose gymnasium area, office space, reception and waiting area.
The current entrance and access corridor will also be refurbished.
KDHS will also receive $187,500 for re-development of its operating theatre, which is expected to create an opportunity for use of a second operating room.
Echuca Regional Health will receive $649,000 for its Medical Equipment Capacity Building Program.
More than $300,000 has been injected into the Rochester & Elmore District Health Service for the expansion of REDHS Accommodation Precinct and its COVID-19 project at Yalukang Aged Care facility.
Lockington and District Bush Nursing Centre has received almost $10,000 for a telephone system upgrade.
Health services in every single council across regional Victoria will see an upgrade — with projects for hospitals, community health services and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations also creating hundreds of jobs.
This includes projects to modernise and expand operating theatres, deliver new waiting rooms and hospital beds, create accessible paths and ramps, expand consulting rooms and deliver vital equipment upgrades.
The latest round has also provided grants for more than 50 projects to undertake planning and design to advance proposals to be considered for future funding rounds.
The RHIF — now worth $790 million — provides government funding to rural and regional health services and agencies across Victoria so they can continue to provide the best care to local communities.
Since establishing the RHIF in 2015, the Labor Government has funded more than 630 projects — the largest investment ever dedicated to our rural and regional health services.
The government has invested more than $15 billion to expand, upgrade and build hospitals since 2014, with the RHIF delivering vital targeted upgrades — tailoring projects to the needs of patients, staff and local communities.
