Melton is to get Victoria’s first Community Ambulatory Care Centre.
The new centre will cost $14 million, Health Minister David Davis said last Thursday during a visit to the Barries Road site earmarked for its construction.
Works are due to begin next year and be completed by 2017.
“Community ambulatory care centres are an innovative new concept in the delivery of high quality, integrated community health and welfare services in metropolitan Melbourne,” Mr Davis said.
“It’s adding additional capacity to services and the growing need in the western region of Melbourne,” he said.
Mr Davis said the new centre would support Melton’s booming community, offering more services in one convenient location.
“These vital health infrastructure projects are building the better health system that people in Melbourne’s west deserve,” he said. Djerriwarrh Health Services will be the lead tenant at the new centre, moving from the existing Melton Health building, which will be demolished.
Other health providers set to move in include Cohealth and Break Thru People Solutions, Mid-West Area Mental Health, Stepping Up alcohol and drug services, Mackillop Family Services, the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, and the PINARC Disability Support Service.
Mr Davis said the new centre would signal the start of a new health precinct for the Melton community.
The state government will give $9 million from its health budget and $5 million through the Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution, enabling designers to start this month.
