About the Daylesford Hospital Upgrade Appeal:
The Daylesford Hospital has provided greatly valued health services for our local and surrounding community for almost 160 years. Present facilities are seriously inadequate for future health care service provision requirements, with its buildings languishing. Our community is at real risk of being unable to access many vital services, despite the best efforts of an excellent health care workforce. If we are to retain our local hospital, the building must be upgraded. This community campaign has been launched to try and make it happen and we need your help! This will be a major multi-staged project:
STEP 1: Master Plan Development - estimated at $100,000. We aim to raise this amount by Christmas in partnership with our local community and the support of the Daylesford Community Bank. COMPLETED in October 2021
STEP 2: Political support - we want a commitment before the November 2022 state election, from both the current Government and the Opposition to fund the entire project. STEP 3: Delivery of a fully upgraded Daylesford Hospital that will continue to meet the health needs of our community for decades to come. Please look around our page and learn how you can be a part of ensuring our growing regional community can access first class healthcare! Each of us can help play a vital part in making this project become a reality, in one or more ways: Donate - Discuss - Deliver! Donate - Make a donation to the development of the Stage One Master Plan phase! COMPLETED in 8 weeks!! Discuss - Talk to your local family members, friends, sporting, business or community groups to highlight the importance of the hospital upgrade appeal and ask them to get behind this campaign. Sign up for updates on the progress of the project and how you can continue to show your support for the upgrade. Deliver - an important message to our local member of Parliament and other politicians to let them know how much you care about the future of our local hospital and want it upgraded (see contact politicians).
• As our elected Macedon member of Parliament, the Hon. Mary-Anne Thomas MP, has a vital role to listen to, and represent, our community needs for a modern hospital that provides us with first class local health care.
• This is an issue our Committee will continue raising as we head to a Victorian State election in November 2022 and we need as many local voices as possible to join us.
• Please let our politicians know how important the Daylesford Hospital upgrade is to you and email them on:
o The Hon. Mary-Anne Thomas MLA,
Member for Macedon,
Minister for Health
mary-anne.thomas@parliament.vic.gov.au
• Each voice and each vote on this issue can make a real difference. More ways that you can help the appeal:
Connect – Subscribe to our updates, follow us on Facebook. Every click counts in sharing the message! Share – Send through your story of why the Daylesford Hospital is a vital asset to the community
Thank You! We are very grateful for the support of the following organisations:
Major sponsors (with links and logos)
o Bendigo Bank’s Community Bank Daylesford District: www.facebook.com/communitybankdaylesforddistrict
o Rotary Club of Daylesford: www.rotarydaylesford.org.au
Gifts-in kind
o Joe Manariti - SWiM Communications: https://www.swim.com.au
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q. Why was the community asked to help fund the master plan? Public hospitals receive a certain mix of funding from government to support its running and capital costs. State Government can make discretionary allocations to fund master plans. To date, this level of targeted support has not yet been obtained from Government, but would be a welcomed investment in the future of our hospital. Fundraising activities and donation campaigns are important ways that members of the public can help show support for a hospital and the care it provides. The Daylesford Hospital is a cherished local asset. It needs an upgrade so its excellent workforce can continue providing first class health care. Our community was asked to demonstrate support by donating funds towards to a master plan to develop details for an upgraded hospital. The funds raised to date allowed the Hospital’s management to then launch this process. Why is there a community campaign now? The timing of this campaign is to firstly, try and get the master plan developed; and secondly, to bring to the attention of politicians how very highly we value our local hospital and want to see its continued success. A State election is being held in November 2022. This provides an important opportunity for both the State Government and Opposition to get behind our campaign and commit to providing the necessary funding to deliver an upgraded hospital. When was the last significant upgrade of the hospital? The last time that the Daylesford Hospital received a signification funding boost from the State Government for capital upgrade works was in the early 2000s. A large investment in our hospital is vital to ensure its ongoing success and ability to provide first class, local health care. The master plan is a critical first step towards realising this. What happens once the $100K amount is raised? This figure is an indicative amount that would provide hospital management with the confidence to commence the master plan. Once this process begins, our Committee would seek ongoing pledges of support to raise funds for Stage 2 of the project - and pledges would be called in once we have a commitment from Government that the upgrade will proceed. We are grateful for the support of the Bendigo Bank’s Community Bank Daylesford District to help manage the associated campaign account. I really want to support the hospital campaign – how can I help? Yes! There are many ways you can support the campaign!
• Donate – CURRENTLY ON HOLD
• Discuss – Spread the word to your family, friends and neighbours
• Deliver – Messages to our local Member of Parliament, The Hon. Mary-Anne Thomas MLA
• Connect – Subscribe to our updates, follow us on Facebook. Every click counts in sharing the message!
• Share – Send through your story of why the Daylesford Hospital is a vital asset to the community
