The RWA has brokered an agreement with the Health and
Attorney Generals Departments and NSW Police to establish a new $10 million
Community Health Centre, by adaptive reuse and refurbishment of the former
Redfern Court House and Police Station site.
Construction is expected to commence in 2007 and is
due for completion in late 2008. The new Centre will be primarily funded through the
sale of the surplus Rachel
Forster Hospital
site.
The current community health centre at the former
Hospital site is outdated and will be relocated to the new Centre in Redfern Street.
The Sydney South West Area Health Service will
withdraw the Development Application for the proposed community health facility
at Lawson Street,
Redfern.
Services to be provided from the new Community Health
Centre (CHC):
In accordance with community requests throughout the
development of the RWA’s Human Services Plan, a number of health
services will be provided in a ‘one-stop-shop’ approach from the new Redfern
CHC.
The range of services is proposed to include: health
assessments, health education, early childhood and family support services,
counselling, referral, perinatal and family drug health services, mental health
services, rehabilitation, welfare support, screening for HIV/AIDS and
hepatitis, sexual health services and other community health services.
To download the ordinal RWA PDF Fact Sheet 3 (pdf~13kb)