Colac Area Health

  • Employee recognised for work with youth

    A Colac Otway Wellbeing Award recipient says being able to help families and young people turn their lives around has been a privilege.

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  • Candidate pledges $5M for family hub

    Community members are celebrating a $5-million-election commitment from the Labor Party for an Early Years Hub in Colac which could help improve access to health services for families.

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  • HOUSING TALKS: MP clarifies ‘housing crisis’

    COLAC’S state MP has clarified that the issue he described as a “chronic housing crisis” in Colac is actually a potential shortage of higher-quality housing.

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  • CENTRE OPENS: Cancer facility’s names honour donors

    COLAC’S new cancer treatment facility, the Frank Minchinton Centre, takes its name from the late potato farmer who donated $150,000 to the centre’s development.

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  • ROAD TO A CURE: Colac cancer centre receives first patients

    COLAC’S cancer treatment centre has opened its doors and accepted its first lot of patients, relieving the district’s cancer patients of a 150-kilometre trip.

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  • FUNDING LOSS: Colac health service faces $200,000 cut

    COLAC AREA HEALTH’s chief says he has received confirmation it will face almost $200,000 in Federal Government funding cuts to the service.

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  • MOTIVATED: Bowie and friendship inspire cancer fundraiser

    A COLAC woman is using a cancer diagnosis and her love of David Bowie as motivation for a fundraising event for the Long Road Appeal.

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  • LONG ROAD SHORTENS: Work continues on new cancer centre

    CONTRACTORS are still expecting to finish building a cancer centre at the Colac Hospital by the end of next month.

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