CPSM Care gears up to open new, more pandemic-resistant Brisbane home
CPSM Care is preparing to open its fifth aged care home in Brisbane, which incorporates learnings from COVID-19.
The new $44 million, 141-bed home at Camp Hill has done away completely with hotel-style centralised air conditioning and temperature control, which business manager Shane Winterton told the Courier-Mail would not have happened without the pandemic.
“All the rooms are now independently air-conditioned, which added some cost to the project overall, but protects from hotel-style cross contamination we saw during the pandemic in closed environments.
“It’s back to the good old Queenslander days, louvres in every hallway and lounge room, ceiling fans in all common areas, this building has been carefully redesigned to breath and every consideration for pandemic has been made,” he said.
Additionally, each room has its own private balcony, meaning every resident has access to the outside.
An open day will be held on 30 July, with the facility slated to open on 15 August.