2017-04-11 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 1 Housing Needs Assessment

Benchmarking at Noosa Shire Scale

Benchmarking aged care provision at a local government or locality scale is no longer undertaken
by the Australian Government, and the analysis below should be considered indicative only. Data
provided by the Australian Government is structured around aged care planning regions, and it is
difficult to determine the status of past place allocations for individual aged care facilities with
certainty.

There were just four residential aged care facilities in Noosa Shire with operational places at 30
June 2015 (Table 24). It is also understood that additional places have been allocated to the
facility in Cooroy (Kabara), and that these places are now operational. After investigating the
results of prior aged care approval rounds, an additional two facilities were identified – Arcare
Noosaville and McKenzie Noosa Ridge Aged Care. A recent application has been made for the
Arcare Noosaville facility to Noosa Council for a 90 bed aged care facility at the Shire Business
Centre but it does not yet have development approval. It is unable to be determined with
certainty that the allocation of aged care places for the Noosa Ridge Aged Care facility in 2011 is
still current, or if these provisionally allocated places have now lapsed. However it has been
assumed that the facility is not proceeding and places allocated to McKenzie Aged Care have
lapsed or been used elsewhere, given that approvals at that time (other than in exceptional
circumstances) were valid for two years with a possible two year extension.

For the purpose of benchmarking residential aged care places, the total number of places for
2016 has been assumed to be 587 places. For 2021, assuming that the additional places at
NoosaCare Cooroy have been delivered, and that the Arcare Noosaville places are delivered by
2021, the projected total would be 677 places.

Table 24. Residential Aged Care Facilities, Noosa Shire, 2015-2016

Aged Care Facility                   Address                                     Places

Operational places at 30 June 2015

Kabara Hostel                        20 Topaz Street, Cooroy                       73

Ozcare Noosa Heads                   80 Cooyar Street, Noosa Heads                130

Carramar Hostel                      186 Cooroy-Noosa Road, Tewantin              142

Noosa Nursing Centre                 119-123 Moorindil Street, Tewantin           230

Newly Allocated Places – 2015 ACAR

NoosaCare Inc – Kabara Hostel        20 Topaz Street, Cooroy                       12

Provisionally Allocated Places in Past Rounds (a)

Arcare Noosaville (Allocated in      Walter Hay Drive, Noosaville                  90
2014)

Note: (a) Excludes McKenzie Aged Care, Noosa Ridge Facility at 11 Lenehans Lane, Noosaville, which was
allocated 140 places in 2011.
Source: Australian Government 2016e.

Given the same methodology as used for the aged care planning region outlined above, Noosa
Shire has a current shortfall of 87 residential aged care places, which could be expected to
increase to 124 places in 2021, if currently planned facilities are delivered, and 261 places in 2026
(Table 25).




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