Great for memory support
Secure memory support unit for residents with high care dementia
Concessional beds available
Bupa Bendigo admits eligible government supported residents
Single rooms with ensuites
Enjoy private rooms with a dedicated bathroom
Bupa Bendigo is an award-winning aged care home in Victoria, featuring a range of facilities to support a comfortable lifestyle for its residents. Outdoors, there are covered courtyards with BBQs, garden ornaments, flower beds, veggie patches, and a water feature with a fountain and lilies. Indoors, communal areas include a music room, café, and a living room with a fireplace.
The rooms measure 19 sqm and are equipped with high-quality furnishings, an adjustable bed, an ensuite bathroom, and a 24-hour nurse call system. The home offers a diverse activities program such as art and craft, games, cognitive exercises, exercise classes, gardening, movie afternoons, concerts, library group, men's group, salon services, and Bupa bus tours. Additionally, the facility is pet-friendly, near public transport, and has onsite parking for visitors.
Bupa Bendigo Rating
Based on resident reviews and Government service audits.
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The Residents Experience rating shows what current residents at Bupa Bendigo think of the food, staff, care and more. These ratings are from the 2024 Aged Care Quality Commission Survey.
Bupa Age Care lacks communication with residents and their families especially since covid. Standard of care has dropped considerably, some of their best caring staff have left, quality of food is appauling, being served food with paper plates, utensils, cups of tea served cold and in paper cups and sometimes no cuppas at all. Bupa is quick to raise fees when there is a Age Pension CPI increase but not increase their residents care and food quality. Yes covid has had a big impact but Bupa as an organisation is probably running at lower costs as staff numbers have reduced, food quality has declined even though the government gave them more money for this. The government has let down the age care sector but Bupa also has to be accountable and not just lock residents in their rooms and feed them on paper plates and hope they don't require nursing or any other assistance. Bupa showing facebook social pages saying look how happy they are is not a true picture. Bupa as an organisation cannot just sit back and say its all the governments fault and not do nothing..... Bupa needs to think outside the box and get residents families more involved in their loved ones daily care. Communication to residents, workers and families is required. Age care should not have been privatised making money from the elderly is so wrong when done poorly.
Bupa Aged Care Bendigo do not put their residents mental well-being as a priority. They make their own rules to suit upper management they don't seem to care that no one can visit family and they use government rules when it suits their agenda for no visitors. Can understand why they are short staffed if management treat their staff like their residents and their families. Communication is appalling by management but the staff are wonderful just not enough and they are stretched to their limit daily.
My family have nothing but praise for this home ,the staff ,the food ,the updates all doing a fantastic job under stressful times , many thanks
No Accommodation fee for respite
You will only pay the Basic daily fee and may pay an additional services fee.
Concessional residents welcome
Bupa Bendigo supports eligible government funded residents with subsidised fees.
Instead of paying a RAD you can choose to pay a Daily Accommodation Payment (DAP) which is a non-refundable daily fee, based on the room price and the maximum permissable interest rate set by the Department of Health and Aged Care.
Residents at Bupa Bendigo on average received 185 minutes of total daily care (93% target) from a combination of support workers, enrolled and registered nurses. In October 2024, a Registered Nurse was on site 24:00 hours per day.
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What is the ACQSC star rating of Bupa Bendigo?
This home has an overall ACQSC star rating of Acceptable.
What is the price range of residential aged care at Bupa Bendigo?
Bupa Bendigo has 3 different types of rooms which range in price between $441,000 and $538,125 maximum refundable accommodation deposit.
Updated: 4 January 2025