Mona Vale Hospital Inpatient Palliative Care Unit Build Underway
Dr Philip Macaulay, Northern Beaches Palliative Care Specialist, demonstrating the site with construction commencing. Photo by NBPC Social Worker Carolyn Robertson
The Winter 2019 Friends of Northern Beaches Palliative Care Newsletter headlines this week with
'We're Underway!' in capital letters.
The article reads:
“We’re underway” came the message from Rob Stokes’ office. Construction has finally started on the goal, on the dream that has been almost thirty years in the making. Industrious shovels and trucks are removing the helicopter pad from which will emerge the inpatient Palliative Care unit where Northern Beaches patients with life-limiting illness may receive complete specialist care.
The quest began in October 1999 when NBPC founder, Dr John Doran, established the PC community service on the campus of MVDH. From the beginning it was his plan to include inpatient care but fruition was encumbered despite strong, loyal, ongoing support from the local community. At one time it was so near and yet so far—given then rescinded.
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