News and events
Changes to Our Property Services
* 29 November 2022 * Recently, the decision was made to change the way we manage properties services requirements and to outsource this to a specialist property services management and maintenance organisation. This decision was the result of a number of factors: Our ex-service accommodation needs are changing with new sites in regional locations and...
New Code of Conduct for Aged Care – 1 December 2022
* 24 November 2022 * The Australian Government Aged Care Quality & Safety Commission is introducing a Code of Conduct for Aged Care on 1 December 2022 in response to a recommendation from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality & Safety. The government states that the Code of Conduct will improve the safety, health,...
Vasey RSL Care AGM, Board Changes and Annual Report
* 23 November 2022 * The organisation’s AGM was held on Thursday 17 November, and as last year, the format was a hybrid meeting with some attending in-person and some via Zoom. Thanks to our financial services provider, Shadforth, we held the in-person meeting in their offices in the CBD. Board Chair, Mike O’Meara...
Remembrance Day at Vasey RSL Care
* 14 November 2022 * Vasey RSL Care Bundoora Residents and staff at Vasey RSL Care Bundoora commemorated Remembrance Day with a very moving service supported by Dawson our bugler, Bev playing the bagpipes, and Warrant Officer (WO2) Mark Clancy from the Simpson Barracks. Thank you to Liz for her reading, Eleanor for her poem,...
Remembering all who served – Remembrance Day Message from our CEO
* 11 November 2022 * Today, we stop for one minute’s silence at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. We remember the Australians who gave their lives for the freedom we enjoy today. And as we remember ours, people all over the world stop to remember theirs. From tiny villages...
Increased Awareness of the Germs We Carry
* 31 October 2022 * Since the advent of COVID-19, we have all changed certain aspects of our daily lives. One of those changes is hand washing. Monina Hernandez is our Infection Control and Prevention Manager. Her role is to ensure effective infection prevention and control work practices to reduce the risk of transmission of...
Supporting Warrnambool Region Veterans
* 6 September 2022 * You may have read about the official opening of our three Wodonga Ex-Service Accommodation units in our last issue: we are now very pleased to announce the purchase of a six-unit site in Warrnambool. The Vasey Strategic Plan 2021-2025 notes a number of regional areas as the focus for potential...
Spring Message from CEO Janna Voloshin
* 06 September 2022 * We are now officially into spring and you may share my sense of relief as Victorian daily new COVID-19 cases have finally begun to fall. It’s still not a cause for celebration, but perhaps some guarded optimism. As well as the continuing battle to keep our residential community safe, there...
Vietnam Veterans Day Commemoration at Vasey RSL Care Cheltenham
* 06 September 2022 * The residents at Vasey RSL Cheltenham Ex-Service Accommodation were honoured to welcome Victorian Minister for Veterans, the Honourable Shaun Leane MP, the Army Cadets from Mentone Grammar School and members of the ADF from HMAS Cerberus to their recent Vietnam Veterans’ Day Service. With a number of Vietnam Veterans living...
Additional Dairy Reduces Hip Fractures: more dairy introduced at Vasey RSL Care
* 2 September 2022 * Vasey RSL Care was involved in a research project conducted by a group of researchers based in three countries – Australia, Netherlands and USA – to investigate whether dietary sources of calcium and protein would have an effect on hip fractures and falls in older adults. The research study, ‘Effect...