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Letter to the Editor in response to ‘Aged care goes from bad to worse’ – The Age, 30 November 2009 |
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A Place to Call Home |
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National Nanna's Night |
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A Blessed Place |
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Celebrating our Culture |
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Werribee Mercy Hospital Annual Art Show |
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Winter Wonderland Mercy Gala Ball |
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Sister of Mercy turns 100 |
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Sister Aurelia Lambert celebrated her 100th birthday in May at Mercy’s Rice Village, in Geelong. |
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Mercy growing in Werribee |
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Villa Franca Nursing Home in Werribee has joined Mercy Health & Aged Care. The Department of Health and Ageing approved the transfer of ownership to us on 23 May. |
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Employer of Choice for Women |
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Mercy Health & Aged Care has been successful in obtaining the Employer of Choice for Women citation by the Equal Opportunity Workplace Agency (EOWA) for 2008. |
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Work starts on Parkville aged care complex |
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The diggers have moved in at the former Commonwealth Games Village to clear the site for our new aged care centre. Appropriately work started on 7 March, which is the 150th anniversary of the Sisters of Mercy arriving in Victoria. |
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Excelsior Aged Care purchase grows Mercy in Shepparton |
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Mercy Health & Aged Care has purchased Excelsior Aged Care in Shepparton. The elderly residents who live in the home will continue to be cared for by Excelsior staff, all of whom will become Mercy Health & Aged Care employees. |
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Four NSW facilities join Mercy Health & Aged Care |
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Two aged car homes and two health services based in NSW have joined Mercy Health & Aged Care. These facilities had been owned and operated by the Goulburn Sisters of Mercy, who have generously agreed to transfer their health and aged care services to Mercy Health and Aged Care |
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New aged care home for Warrnambool |
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Mercy Health & Aged Care has announced plans to build a new 50 bed aged care home in Warrnambool to meet the growing demand for aged care in the region. |
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All the fun of the fair |
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Around 4,000 people came to enjoy all the fun of the fair at Werribee Mercy Hospital's 8th community fair, which was held on Sunday (4 March). |
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Prince Edward visits Mercy Hospital for Women |
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Prince Edward toured Mercy's intensive care unit for babies in March. He charmed the mothers and Mercy staff, although we're not sure what the babies thought of him! |
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Mercy to build aged care home in Commonwealth Games Village |
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The Victorian Minister for Health Bronwyn Pike and the Minister for Aged Care Gavin Jennings, announced that Mercy has been awarded the contract to construct and operate an aged care facility on the former Commonwealth Games Village site in Parkville. |
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East Melbourne home is holey |
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Demolition work has started to clear the site at the rear of the former Mercy Hospital for Women in East Melbourne, for a new 110 bed aged care home. |
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Sandy home for Mercy |
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At the end of November Mercy Health & Aged Care took ownership of a 46 bed aged care home in Sandringham. The home was known as Fernhill Hostel and has be renamed Fernhill Mercy. |
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Hospital helps Werribee Open Range Zoo |
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Werribee Mercy Hospital has donated a truck load of medical equipment to Werribee Open Range Zoo. |
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2,690 years of service |
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When Werribee Mercy Hospital opened its doors back in 1994 there wasn’t much call for long service awards. |
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Throwing out the bathwater |
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Even in these water conscious times no one would begrudge mothers at the Mercy Hospital for Women’s Family Birthing Centre a warm bath or shower to help pain relief during childbirth... |
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Mercy Public Hospitals Inc - Research Report 2008 |
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Mercy Place Apartments |
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Werribee Mercy Hospital Community Information Week |
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Mercy takes ownership of Bethlehem |
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The Diocese of Sandhurst has generously agreed to transfer ownership of Bethlehem Home for the Aged in Bendigo to the care of the Sisters of Mercy |
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