BaptistCare NSW & ACT on track to meet 5,000 aged care beds and ILUs years faster than planned

Just weeks after CEO Charles Moore told SATURDAY that BaptistCare NSW & ACT was looking to increase its portfolio by up to 80% within the next five years, the organisation is close to blitzing this target after merging with Baptistcare WA. The announcement this week followed BaptistCare NSW & ACT’s recent acquisition of three NSW co-located aged care and retirement living sites from Tulich Family Communities.

“We’re not shy in putting up our hands and saying what our strategy is,” Charles told SATURDAY. “One of the strategic objectives for us is increasing the scale of our organisation based around geographic clusters – it just so happens that WA is a larger cluster. “We set ourselves a target of reaching a combined, 5,000 beds and ILUs in five years. This transaction will bring us to about 4,500 beds and ILUs so we need to have a rethink about how that target gets repositioned.”

As we announced on Tuesday, the new organisation will be one of the largest Not For Profit providers in Australia with 33 aged care homes, 25 retirement villages, 9,000 home care customers, a 5,000-plus workforce and a combined revenue of $520 million. Read more in this week’s issue of SATURDAY, out Saturday 18 March – subscribe here.