Frontline emergency care across the Mid-North Coast is set to receive a significant boost with the official opening of the brand new Old Bar Ambulance Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The purpose-built facility includes internal parking for up to four emergency ambulance vehicles, staff common areas, accommodation, and rest facilities for paramedics, administration and office areas, logistics and storage areas, and a vehicle wash bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Labor Spokesperson for Myall Lakes Emily Suvaal, joined NSW Ambulance paramedics, local families, and community members to mark the milestone opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new Old Bar station is one of 54 new or refurbished stations being delivered by the NSW Government\u2019s $232 million Rural Ambulance Infrastructure Reconfiguration (RAIR) program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The RAIR program is the single largest investment in regional NSW Ambulance\u2019s almost 130-year history, with ambulance stations being delivered in rural and regional NSW, to support the delivery of enhanced out-of-hospital emergency medical care to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister for Regional Health Ryan Park said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe new Old Bar Ambulance Station is an essential addition to our regional healthcare network, and it will significantly enhance out-of-hospital emergency care for people in this community and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The NSW Government is committed to investing in health infrastructure to support better health outcomes for rural and regional communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis new modernised health facility equips our highly skilled paramedics with enhanced resources to meet the growing demand for emergency medical care in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cModern infrastructure is important, but what I am also really proud of is that we\u2019ve already recruited an additional 54 paramedics to work on the Mid-North Coast under the Strategic Workforce Infrastructure Team program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Member of the Legislative Council Emily Suvaal said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe new station is a testament to the NSW Government\u2019s dedication to providing first-class emergency services in regional NSW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis new Ambulance Station provides a more comfortable working environment for our dedicated paramedics tailored to the needs of the local community and enhancing emergency care in Old Bar and the surrounding areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n NSW Ambulance Chief Executive Dr Dominic Morgan said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOld Bar Station provides our paramedics with purpose-built facilities and equipment to continue to provide high quality emergency care throughout the Mid-North Coast, now and into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re excited to have this new station up and running for our local crews and the communities it will service in the Mid North Coast of NSW.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Frontline emergency care across the Mid-North Coast is set to receive a significant boost with the official opening of the brand new Old Bar Ambulance Station. The purpose-built facility includes internal parking for up to four emergency ambulance vehicles, staff common areas, accommodation, and rest facilities for paramedics, administration and office areas, logistics and storage … Continue reading “Frontline emergency care boost in North Coast town of Old Bar”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25994,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25993\/revisions\/25994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}