- Windorah Primary Health Centre celebrates 1st anniversary.
- Since opening last year, the $12.4 million facility has provided care to more than 280 people, including 166 emergency presentations.
- The new primary health centre includes more consultation rooms, an ambulance bay and an emergency treatment are and is dedicated to Sandy (James) and Anne Kidd, a beloved local couple who pioneered health care in the Channel Country.
Windorah’s new $12.4 million primary health centre is celebrating 12 months of providing quality health care in the remote Queensland community, with a community event to mark the celebration.
The state-of-the-art health facility has provided care to 280 people since opening to the community on 2 February 2023, including 166 emergency presentations.
The facilities new features include:
- Four tele-health enabled consultation rooms, doubling capacity at the centre, to support clinical care and to host hospital and health services, as well as visiting partners such as the Royal Flying Doctors Service
- an ambulance bay
- an emergency treatment area and
- a reception and waiting area
- a two-bedroom, two-bathroom staff accommodation unit with a full kitchen and lounge space.
Since replacing the town’s original health clinic, which was over 20 years old, the new facility has been dedicated to Sandy (James) and Anne Kidd in recognition of their outstanding contributions to health, emergency and social care in the Windorah community and the broader Channel Country.
The Windorah project is part of more than $90 million worth of health infrastructure works across the Central West region that have been completed over the past five years or are currently under way.
They include the:
- $28 million Longreach Hospital upgrade and additional works
- $10.86 million new renal dialysis unit and upgrades to pharmacy and pathology departments currently under way at Longreach Hospital and due for completion mid-2024.
- $20.11 million new Blackall Hospital completed in October 2020 and officially opened in November that year
- $7.24 million Boulia Primary Health Centre replacement, completed in November 2019, and
- $4.1 million Aramac Primary Health Care Centre, completed in April 2018.
The Miles Government is committed to delivering health services closer to home for all Queenslanders, especially those in rural, remote, and regional communities.
Quotes attributable to the Minister for Health, Mental Health and Ambulance Services Shannon Fentiman:
“I’m so excited the new Windorah Primary Health Centre has reached this milestone and are celebrating an incredible year of healthcare delivery to this remote community.
“This state-of-the-art facility allows for the fullest use of the latest technology, so that our residents can receive the best care possible, closer to home.
“Right across the state we are replacing ageing infrastructure to ensure our rural and remote frontline workers have the modern facilities they need to continue providing worldclass healthcare to their communities.
“It’s why we’ve invested more than $1 billion to upgrade and modernise our facilities right across the state through the Building Rural and Remote Health Program.
“Windorah’s dedicated and passionate healthcare workers do a wonderful job caring for their community, and I know the contributions by Sandy and Anne Kidd continue to serve as an important legacy and inspiration for healthcare delivery across the region.”