Welcome to the Catholic Health Australia National Conference 2023 to be held at The Westin Hotel, Perth. Our extensive conference program and registration form is available here: Program and Registration Our prospectus is available for anyone who would like to exhibit at our conference Exhibition Prospectus Make sure you take advantage of The Westin’s special room rate for the conference. Book Now! Book Accommodation Book Your Group/Corporate Rate | Marriott International Major Sponsor: Bankfirst ..read more

Welcome to the Catholic Health Australia National Conference 2022 to be held at the Brisbane Hilton 22-24 August 2022. Our extensive conference program and registration form is attached below: Registration Brochure ..read more

Catholic Health Australia, the nation’s largest non-government provider grouping of health and aged care services, has announced its chief executive, Mr Pat Garcia, will be standing down after four years in the role. Mr Garcia will be taking up a new role in the Catholic Health sector, as Group General Manager Public Affairs and General Counsel at St Vincent’s Health Australia. CHA Chair John Watkins AM said Pat’s contribution to CHA, and the health sector more broadly, had been invaluable. “Pat has worked tirelessly, during an unforeseeably challenging period, to advocate on behalf of the hos ..read more

Catholic Health Australia, which represents the largest non-government provider grouping of health, aged, and community care services in Australia, has welcomed the federal budget’s inclusion of a $5.7 billion funding boost to Medicare. Primary care funding in the budget will triple the bulk billing incentive, encouraging bulk billing for vulnerable populations. Additionally, the MBS rebate for consultations exceeding 60 minutes will increase, better compensating GPs for providing high-quality care to patients with complex needs. CHA’s Director of Health Policy, Caitlin O’Dea, said the the ..read more

Catholic Health Australia is pleased to announce Minister for Health and Aged Care the Hon Mark Butler MP will speak at its annual conference. Mr Butler will address up to 300 board directors, CEOs, and senior executives from CHA’s hospital, aged and community care providers at the conference in Perth in August. Other speakers already confirmed to speak are NSW Anti-Slavery commissioner James Cockayne and leading social commentator and demographer Bernard Salt AM. Minister Butler was appointed Minister for Health and Aged Care in May 2022 and inherited a health system that had been operating u ..read more

Catholic Health Australia has joined with the Aged and Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA) and LGBTIQ+ Health Australia (LHA) in signing a joint statement on LGBTQI+ right in aged care. The Commonwealth have commissioned this human rights statement following recommendations arising from the recent Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and ahead of the release of the new Aged Care Act later in 2023. This Act will take a human rights approach to aged care. The statement, found here, reads in part: It is everybody’s business − across all aged care services throughout Austral ..read more

To mark World Parkinson’s Day Catholic Health Australia Chair Hon John Watkins AM wrote the following moving article in the Sydney Morning Herald reflecting on the disease that he has lived with for 15 years. The post CHA CHAIR WRITES ABOUT THE DISEASE THAT IS SLOWLY OVERTAKING HIS LIFE appeared first on Catholic Health Australia ..read more

Catholic Health Australia’s aged care providers are committing to fully pass on the Federal Government’s funding for pay rises to their hard working staff. The peak advocacy body for Catholic not-for-profit providers says the pledge to pass on all of the Government money to wages sends an important signal that society values aged care workers. The federal government has committed to fully funding a 15 per cent increase to award rates for aged care workers who provide direct care to residents, roughly 70 per cent of the total 320,000 aged care workforce. But unions have raised concerns that som ..read more

NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner James Cockayne and modern slavery survivor Sarah will address Catholic Health Australia’s annual conference. Dr Cockayne began his five-year term as NSW’s inaugural Anti-slavery Commissioner in August 2022 after spending two decades promoting human rights and responsible business practices around the world. He was a member of the World Economic Forum Global Futures Council for Equity and Social Justice and chaired the US Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Human Trafficking, having also founded Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking. Dr Cockayne will be s ..read more

Residents, staff and invited guests have joined Melbourne’s Catholic Archbishop Peter Comensoli today to officially open Calvary Health Care’s landmark retirement living, health and aged care precinct, Calvary Kooyong. A procession wove its way through each part of the integrated precinct giving residents, patients, families, volunteers, and clinical and support staff the opportunity to share in the celebrations. Designed to support the changing health and lifestyle needs of patients and residents, the $154 million precinct is built on the site of the former Calvary Bethlehem hospital in Melbo ..read more