Building for the health and wellbeing needs of Eaglehawk
- Tuesday 5 December 2023
- Written by Lauren Mitchell
Bendigo Community Health Services will next week start the refurbishment of its Eaglehawk site, with local builders Franklin & Walsh appointed to deliver the works.
This follows extensive design consultations with EBD Architects and a community engagement program, in which residents of the 3556 postcode shared their views on the health service, and ideas on what would make it easier for them to care for their health and wellbeing.
BCHS started in Eaglehawk in 1974, after residents recognised their health was poor and health services were inadequate.
Encouraged by the social reforms of the Whitlam era, the community lobbied for free and accessible health services at a time when there were no GPs or dentists in the suburb and when people were sicker than elsewhere in Bendigo.
Interim CEO Nicole Ferrie said BCHS was still a community-owned asset, which acknowledges and celebrates its hard-won beginnings in Eaglehawk.
