An apology plaque inscribed with a sorry message to the Stolen Generations was unveiled at the Cobar Health Service on Friday morning. Cobar Health Service Manager Mary Urquhart welcomed members of the Cobar Local Aboriginal Land Council, Cobar Health Council, Cobar Hospital Auxiliary and Cobar Health Service staff to the […]
Health Minister Brad Hazzard was in Cobar yesterday to inspect the new facility. Minister Hazzard was joined by local Aboriginal elder Joan Evans, who delivered the welcome to country, to mark the major milestone by planting a tree at the front of the new facility. “The Cobar community now has […]
The existing Cobar Hospital building is set to be demolished following the completion of the new Health Service next year. The new Health Service building in Woodiwiss Avenue is nearing completion with hospital and Community Health staff getting ready for the move to their new premises in early 2020. Kylie […]
Work on the construction of Cobar’s new $30million multipurpose health service officially got underway on Tuesday with State Member for Barwon Kevin Humphries turning the first sod of dirt on the site. Building contractor Hutchinson Builders, in conjunction with two local earthworks companies, began work to clear the site adjacent […]
Technology is helping communities like Cobar to have better access to important health services. A new pilot project at Cobar Health Service, the new Virtual Outpatient Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Service (VOMPS), will give Cobar residents access to Western NSW Local Health District’s (Western NSWLHD) physiotherapy services via Tele Health. Orange Health […]
Health Infrastructure is hoping the construction of Cobar’s new health facility will commence soon. In an update from Health Infrastructure released last week, it advised the detailed planning and design stages had now been completed and they were set to start on the delivery stage of the project. The Development […]
The good work and practices of the staff at Cobar Hospital were put in the spotlight recently when the hospital’s health services manager, Mary Urquhart recently addressed a major health conference. Mrs Urquhart was invited to speak at the ‘Studer Group Australasia – What’s Right in Health Care Conference’ in […]
The Cobar Health Service team at Cobar Hospital is up for a Western NSW Local Health District (WNSWLHD) Health and Innovation award. The Cobar team has implemented a program at the hospital to partner with their patients to ensure safer discharges. The project has been short-listed for the District’s Living […]
The Western NSW Local Health District (LHD) will take the feedback they received from a series of meetings held in Cobar last week to help them ‘tweak’ the design plans for Cobar’s proposed new health service. Staff at Cobar Hospital and the Lilliane Brady Village (LBV), members of the Cobar […]
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