Australian Health Care Agreements
Pathways Home
Pathways Home is a program that the Australian Government funds under the 2003-08 Australian Health Care Agreements.
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The funding for this Program forms part of the Australian Government's $42 billion contribution to public hospitals over the five years of the Australian Health Care Agreements. To access Pathways Home funding, each State and Territory was required to submit a plan of their proposed expenditure by 31 December 2003.
The following table lists the projects that have been approved to date under the Pathways Home Projects.
Pathways Home projects announced 2004
Northern Territory
| Category | Location | Description | Funding |
| Equipment | All public hospitals (Darwin, Alice Springs, Gove, Tennant Creek, Katherine) | Enhance pool of reusable rehabilitation equipment | $280, 000 |
| Workforce training and development | Territory-wide | Provide education and training to assist health providers gain or update specific skills in relation to rehabilitation | $190, 000 |
| Home discharge packages | Royal Darwin Hospital | Provision of home discharge packages to assist people recently discharged from hospital | $ 630, 000 |
| Refurbishment of facilities | Royal Darwin Hospital | Upgrade of the existing self-care unit | $85, 000 |
| Refurbishment of facilities | Royal Darwin Hospital | Relocation of rehabilitation ward | $185, 000 |
| Refurbishment of facilities | Alice Springs Hospital | Construction of a new outdoor rehabilitation area to enhance delivery of culturally-appropriate rehabilitation | $30, 000 |
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Western Australia
| Category | Location | Description | Funding |
| Construction and fit-out of new purpose-built facilities | South Metropolitan Health Region | New Sub-Acute Centre for relocation of existing hospital-based rehabilitation services and for introduction of new stepdown services | $19.6 m |
| Construction and fit-out of new purpose-built facilities | South Metropolitan Health Region | New Sub-Acute Centre for relocation of existing hospital-based rehabilitation services and for introduction of new stepdown services | |
| IT Infrastructure | Statewide | Enhancements to rehabilitation IT infrastructure | $2.1 m |
South Australia
| Category | Location | Description | Funding |
| Construction of new purpose-built Facilities | Northern Adelaide | New Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre | $19.0 m |
| Construction of new purpose-built facilities | Southern Adelaide | New Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre |  |
| Construction of new purpose-built facilities | Inner Adelaide | New Stepdown Facility for Indigenous Australians | |
| Refurbishment/upgrading of existing facilities | Ceduna | Upgraded and extended Stepdown Facility for Indigenous Australians | |
| Workforce development and training | Statewide | Workforce programs | $1.0 m |
| Rehabilitation equipment | Statewide | Purchase rehabilitation equipment | $0.5 m |
| Refurbishment of existing facilities to increase rehabilitation services | Statewide | Upgrade and increased service provision | $372, 200 |
| Increase service infrastructure | Hamstead Rehabilitation Centre | Purchase of telemedicine security and IT equipment for rehabilitation and training | $51, 000 |
| Upgrade facilities to improve stepdown care facilities | Whyalla and Port Augusta | Modification of a housing facility to provide short term accommodation and refurbishment of a step-down unit to provide rehabilitation facilities | $76, 800 |
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Victoria
| Category | Location | Description | Funding |
| Improve service infrastructure | Statewide | Develop assessment tools, audit of rehabilitation equipment, purchase new rehabilitation equipment | $8.6 m |
| Workforce development and training | Statewide | Workforce programs | $2.8 m |
| Refurbishment/upgrading of existing facilities | Port Phillip Community Rehabilitation Centre | Expansion and upgrade of existing facilities to accommodate demand | $39.0 m |
| Refurbishment/upgrading of existing facilities | Bundoora Extended Care Centre | Expansion and upgrade of existing facilities to accommodate demand | |
| Construction of new purpose-built facilities | Angliss Hospital | New Community Rehabilitation Centre to be co-located with a recently-commissioned rehabilitation ward | |
| Refurbishment/upgrading of existing facilities | Heidelberg Community Rehabilitation Centre | Redevelopment of the site to accommodate demand and better integrate services | |
| Refurbishment/upgrading of existing facilities | Kinston Centre | Redevelopment of the site to accommodate demand for ambulatory services | |
| Refurbishment/upgrading of existing facilities | Caulfield General Medical Centre | Redevelopment of the site to accommodate demand for ambulatory services | |
| Refurbishment/upgrading of existing facilities | St George’s Hospital | Redevelopment of the site to accommodate demand for ambulatory services | |
| Refurbishment/upgrading of existing facilities | Seymour Community Rehabilitation Centre | Expansion and upgrade of existing facilities to accommodate demand | |
| Refurbishment/upgrading of existing facilities | Echuca Community Rehabilitation Centre | Redevelopment of the site to accommodate demand for ambulatory services | |
| Refurbishment/upgrading of existing facilities | Swan Hill Community Rehabilitation centre | Redevelopment of the site to accommodate demand for ambulatory services | |
| Construction of new purpose-built facilities | Sale | New Community Rehabilitation Centre | |
| Refurbishment/upgrading of existing facilities | Goulburn Valley-Shepparton | Redevelopment of the site to accommodate demand for ambulatory services | |
| Refurbishment/upgrading of existing facilities | West Gippsland-Warragul | Redevelopment of the site to accommodate demand for ambulatory services |
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Australian Capital Territory
| Category | Location | Description | Funding |
| Construction of new purpose-built facilities (approved 21-12-03) | Calvary Hospital | New Sub-Acute Centre to provide extended care for older people and other patients no longer requiring acute care | $5.2 m |
| Refurbishment/upgrading of existing facilities | Canberra | Refurbishment of facilities to provide new intermittent care services for older persons no longer requiring acute or sub-acute care | $1.16 m |
Tasmania
| Category | Location | Description | Funding |
| Workforce development and training | Statewide | Workforce | $1.3 m |
| Equipment | Statewide | Purchase rehabilitation equipment | $0.5 m |
| IT Infrastructure | Statewide | Enhancements to rehabilitation IT infrastructure | $0.5 m |
| Other | Statewide | Establish a pre-operative fitness program for joint replacement patients | $0.2 m |
New South Wales
| Category | Location | Description | Funding |
| Transitional care strategy: refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Kiama Hospital | Refurbish existing space at Kiama Hospital to accommodate dementia patients (16 new places) | $86 m |
| Transitional care strategy: equipment | Kularoo Gardens, Forster | Purchase aids and equipment to support 14 new transitional care places | |
| Transitional care strategy: equipment | Kularoo Gardens, Forster | Other infrastructure enhancement to accommodate 14 new transition care places | |
| Transitional care strategy | South Western Sydney Area Health Service | Refurbish existing space to accommodate 14 new transition care places | |
| Transitional care strategy | Mt Druitt Hospital | Construct purpose | |
| Transitional care strategy | Westmead Hospital and Mt Druitt Hospital | Construct purpose built villas to provide 16 new transitional care places | |
| Transitional care strategy: refurbishment and upgrading | Nepean Hospital | Refurbish and extend North Block of Nepean Hospital (rehabilitation and geriatric services unit) | |
| Home discharge packages | Woy Woy, Gosford, Wyong | Discharge packages to support older people return home | |
| Home discharge packages | Royal Prince Alfred Hospital | Discharge packages | |
| Home discharge packages | Royal Prince Alfred Hospital | Discharge packages to support older people return home | |
| Home discharge packages | Balmain Hospital | Discharge packages to support older people return home | |
| Home discharge packages | Wagga Wagga | Discharge packages to support older people return home | |
| Home discharge packages | Nepean Hospital | Discharge packages to support older people return home | |
| Home discharge packages | Westmead Hospital | Discharge packages to support older people return home to support older people | |
| Home discharge packages | Tamworth | Discharge packages to support older people return home | |
| Home discharge packages | Royal North Shore, Manly and Mona Vale Hospitals | Discharge packages to support older people return home | |
| Home discharge packages | Northern Rivers Area Health Service | Discharge packages to support older people return home | |
| Home discharge packages | Prince of Wales Hospital (Randwick) | Discharge packages to support older people return home | |
| Home discharge packages | St George Hospital and Community Health Service (Kogarah) | Discharge packages to support older people return home | |
| Home discharge packages | Liverpool Hospital | Discharge packages to support older people return home | |
| Construction of purpose built facilities | Woy Woy Hospital | Construct 20 bed transitional care unit | |
| Construction of purpose built facilities | Concord Hospital | Construct new facility to integrate services into a clinical hub | |
| Construction of purpose built facilities | Northern Rivers Area Health Service | Increase bed capacity to provide stepdown and slow stream rehabilitation | |
| Construction of purpose built facilities | Eurobodalla (Moruya) | Purpose built ambulatory care and rehabilitation facility | |
| Refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Balmain Hospital | Refurbishment of aged care rehabilitation | |
| Refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Balmain Hospital | Refurbishment of rehabilitation facility | |
| Refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Newtown and Balmain | Refurbishment of geriatric rehabilitation day care centres | |
| Refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Mercury Health Albury | Refurbish space to provide transitional care | |
| Refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Coledale, Port Kembla and Berry Hospitals | Refurbishment of inpatient rehabilitation and support areas | |
| Refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Bankstown Hospital | Refurbish and equip existing space at Bankstown Hospital to provide three gymnasiums to enhance inpatient rehabilitation | |
| Refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Calvary (Kogarah), War Memorial (Waverley) and St Vincent’s Hospitals | Refurbishment of aged care rehabilitation an ambulatory services areas | |
| Refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Hornsby Hospital and Community Health Service | Refurbishment of space in community aged care facilities | |
| Refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Mona Vale Hospital and Community Health Service | Refurbishment of space in community aged care facilities | |
| Refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Ryde Hospital | Ambulatory day therapy centre | |
| Refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Tamworth Base Hospital and MPSs | Refurbish facilities within Tamworth Base Hospital | |
| Refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Cowra, Lithgow, Parkes and Forbes Hospitals | Refurbish transition care areas | |
| Refurbishment and upgrading of existing facilities | Forster | Relocation of health service | |
| Equipment | Far West Area Health Service | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Equipment | Mt Druitt Hospital | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Equipment | Western Sydney Area Health Service | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Equipment | South Western Sydney Area Health Service | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Equipment | South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Equipment | Eurobodalla (Moruya) | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Equipment | Northern Rivers Area Health Service | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Equipment | Tamworth Base Hospital and MPSs | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Equipment | Mid Western Area Health Service | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Equipment | Forster | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Equipment | Kempsey Community Health Centre | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Equipment | Macquarie Area Health Service | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Equipment | Coledale, Port Kembla and Berry Hospitals | Purchase of 3 Lite-Gait Systems which allow therapists to train patients in mobility | |
| Equipment | Illawarra Area Health Service | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Equipment | Greater Murray Area Health Service | Enhance equipment pool | |
| Workforce Development | Macquarie Area Health Service | Training | |
| Workforce Development | Northern Rivers Area Health Service | Training | |
| Workforce Development | North Eastern Area health Service | Training | |
| Workforce Development | Forster | Training | |
| Workforce Development | Mid Western Area Health Service | Training | |
| Workforce Development | Far West Area Health Service | Training | |
| Workforce Development | Greater Murray Area Health Service | Training | |
| Workforce Development | Illawarra Area Health Service | Training | |
| Improving service infrastructure | Far West Area Health Service | Short-term project to review and develop stepdown rehabilitation service provision | |
| Improving service infrastructure | Greater Murray Area Health Service | Development of a strategic plan and clinical governance framework | |
| Improving service infrastructure | Kempsey Community Health Centre | Relocation of staff to support clustering of services | |
| Improving service infrastructure | Forster | IT enhancement | |
| Improving service infrastructure | Kempsey Community Health Centre | IT enhancement | |
| Improving service infrastructure | Illawarra Area Health Service | IT enhancement | |
| Improving service infrastructure | Central Sydney Area Health Service | IT enhancement | |
| Improving service infrastructure | Mid Western Area Health Service | IT enhancement | |
| Improving service | Tamworth | IT enhancement | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Central Sydney Area Health Service | Support GPs in care planning for elderly patients requiring post-discharge and ongoing support | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Central Sydney Area Health Service | Increase buses for transporting frail elderly to ambulatory/day care facilities | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Central Sydney Area Health Service | Training packages for staff, carers and patients in aged care rehabilitation | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Far West Area Health Service | Vehicles to enhance client access services | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Far West Area Health Service | Construct car park and drop-off area adjacent to rehabilitation unit to facilitate client access | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Broken Hill Hospital | Extend car park to provide easy parking for aged residents attending ambulatory services | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Illawarra Area Health Service | Enhancement of transport systems to improve client access to services and staff access to home-based clients | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Tamworth Base Hospital and MPSs | Purchase and fit-out of vehicles for allied health and nursing clinicians to deliver home-based services | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Eurobodalla (Moruya) | Transport – People Mover with wheelchair access | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | War Memorial Hospital Waverley | Provision of vehicles to facilitate access of clients to services and staff to clients | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Mid Western Area Health Service | Enhancement of transport systems to improved client access to services and staff access to home-based clients | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Kempsey Community Health Centre | Research project: improving stepdown and rehabilitation | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Forster | Research project: Health Impact Assessments | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Northern Rivers Area Health Service | Research project: long-term planning for the elderly | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | South Western Area Health Service | Research project: investigate effective models of care to deliver transitional care services to elderly patients | |
| Other infrastructure enhancement | Illawarra Area Health Service | Research project: acute/rehabilitation care interface |
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Queensland
| Location | Project Description | Date of Approval | Funding |
| State-wide (yet to be determined | Establishment of 40-50 Intermittent Care places | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $7.9m package) |
| Fraser Coast (Central Zone) | Hydrotherapy Pool | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $7.9m package) |
| North Rockhampton | Refurbishment of North Rockhampton Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rehabilitation/transitional care service | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $7.9m package) |
| Northern Zone | Refurbishment of rehabilitation/stepdown spaces at several smaller hospitals and community health facilities | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $7.9m package) |
| Roma Hospital Southern Zone | Refurbishment of Roma Health Service District Hospital | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $7.9m package) |
| Inala Community Health Centre (Southern Zone) | Refurbishment of Community Health Centre | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $7.9m package) |
| Rural | Refurbishment of some smaller rural facilities to enhance rehabilitation/transitional care | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $7.9m package) |
| Gold Coast | Refurbishment of Gold Coast rehabilitation/transitional care services | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $7.9m package) |
| North Lakes (Central Zone) | Construction of new innovative care facilities to provide rehabilitation and stepdown care (ambulatory care) | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $19.22m package) |
| Sunshine Coast (Central Zone) | Construction of new innovative care facilities to provide rehabilitation and stepdown care (Enhancement of facilities) | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $19.22m package) |
| Keperra
(Central Zone) | Construction of new innovative care facilities to provide rehabilitation and stepdown care (Enhancement of facilities) | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $19.22m package) |
| Nundah (Central Zone) | Construction of new innovative care facilities to provide rehabilitation and stepdown care (Enhancement of facilities) | 25 June 20014 | *(part of $19.22m package) |
| Fraser Coast (Central Zone) | Construction of new innovative care facilities to provide rehabilitation and stepdown care (Relocation of rehabilitation/transitional care services to a dedicated clinical services building) | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $19.22m package) |
| Northern Zone | Complementing existing rehabilitation services across the Zone to relieve pressure on acute services | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $19.22m package) |
| Logan Beaudesert (Southern Zone) | Construction of new innovative care facilities to provide rehabilitation and stepdown care (Ambulatory Care Centre) | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $19.22m package) |
| Redcliffe Sunshine Coast & Fraser Coast Townsville Gold Coast & Logan | Mobile rehabilitation equipment units | 25 June 2004 | ($960, 000) |
| Statewide | Equipment Short term loan service | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $6.65m package) |
| Statewide | Equipment Outreach teams | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $6.65m package) |
| Statewide | Equipment Upgrading of equipment | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $6.65m package) |
| Statewide | Service Infrastructure, telemedicine enhancement | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $3.33m package) |
| Statewide | Service Infrastructure Information System/IT enhancement | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $3.33m package) |
| Statewide | Workforce training and development Education and Training | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $6.94m package) |
| Statewide | Workforce training and development
Indigenous Health Workers initiatives | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $6.94m package) |
| Statewide | Workforce training and development
Self-management Support | 25 June 2004 | *(part of $6.94m package) |
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