INGLEWOOD and Districts Health Service’s new rehabilitation gymnasium and student accommodation building are ready for use.
CEO Dallas Coghill said the $2.4 million project would improve access to strength training, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and podiatry services.
And he again welcomed the new accommodation facilities for medical and health students on placement and training at Inglewood.
Mr Coghill said the facilities would also assist with recruitment of staff for the service.
Work was completed on the new building before Christmas and equipment installed before yesterday morning’s announcement that the health service upgrades had been completed.
Ripon MP Martha Haylett said new facilities would improve local health care for Inglewood and other Loddon communities.
The new allied health precinct coincides with completion of the health service’s outdoor environment redevelopment project that has seen construction of an outdoor kitchen, pathways, landscaping and dementia-friendly facilities.
The State Government has described the completed projects at Inglewood as state-of-the-art.
Mr Coghill said the gymnasium, financed through the Regional Health Infrastructure Fund, would open shortly.