After a 10 months search, Kingston Council (in suburban Melbourne) will transfer to Southern Cross Care VIC four existing aged care facilities plus responsibility for establishing a fifth 125 bed aged care facility.

The council states they could not keep up with the demand for specialised aged care and needed to hand over the business to experts.

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