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All of our homes have been recognised for excellence by the Aged Care Standards Agency and awarded the maximum term of three years accreditation.
SummitCare centres provide low to high level residential aged care, dementia-specific residential aged care and other aged care services. Each offers a unique community in which older people can live life to the fullest, while having peace of mind that all their care needs are met.
Our Centres | Overview
Environment and Accommodation Services
Each SummitCare centre is configured with single, twin and multi-bed rooms. Every centre has access to well appointed sitting and communal space where residents and relatives are welcome to set up for visiting or to hold a family gathering. Residents should feel welcome to sit and enjoy the television or participate in the scheduled activities program organised by our recreational activities staff.
SummitCare works with a professional interior designer to make sure that colour coordination and furniture is appropriate for the needs of our residents. We pride ourselves on making our environments pleasant and welcoming. We also work with a professional gardening firm to make sure external space is accessible and each centre regularly hosts barbeques and other functions to involve families in the day to day activities.
Daily Services
All daily requirements are catered for. Each of our centres have in place communal dining rooms where residents can choose to enjoy any meal of the day.
All our centres work closely with the local community and we have arrangements for all religious requirements. We work to make sure our programs are meaningful, and age & gender appropriate. Importantly, residents can chose to part-take in small group, large group or individually designed programs.
Quality Management and Continuous Quality Improvement
We have comprehensive quality management systems which actively reviews every part of our service. Our management systems include a monitoring process that ensures we are meeting our objectives and that we are constantly striving for even greater excellence.
How we're different
Our goal is to ensure residents are our main focus in all that we do. By utilising a resident focused approach; not just in care delivery, but in all aspects of business, we exceed today’s expectations of aged care. We know this from feedback we have received over the years from residents and their loved ones.
Our promise to relatives is to provide peace of mind.
This means communicating regularly, negotiating care outcomes & providing continuous quality assurance.
Our Purpose
To provide, all day every day, exceptional and sensitive care and service to people requiring residential aged care.
SummitCare Home & Community Care
We also offer Home Care services which support you living in your own home. We offer a full range of Home Support services to choose from that will ensure your well-being and satisfy all your needs.
SummitCare has announced that their communication with families is about to be upgraded and simplified through an innovative new app called Hayylo. An award-winning client and family communication and enquiry management tool, Hayylo has been designed specifically for the Aged Care and Disability Care sectors.
SummitCare's St Marys residential aged care home has won the top Health Improvement Services prize at the prestigious Mount Druitt/St Marys Local Business Awards.
Friday the 13th was a lucky day for residents, staff, friends and family of Milton Alderson who celebrated 100 wonderful years.
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Committed to continuously improving services to their residents, SummitCare regularly collaborates with Universities and specialists in the industry to trial new programs, care services projects, activities and suppliers to introduce and implement new opportunities and strategies to SummitCare.
Across Australia, every aged care provider is required to meet government regulations and standards that protect and maintain the safety, health, wellbeing and quality of life for those who use the service.
SummitCare is not only a leader in the residential aged care sector, the organisation contributes to projects with industry peak bodies, academic groups and researchers in a range of ways.
At SummitCare, community is everything. This leading residential aged care provider operates ten nursing homes in suburban communities across Sydney and one in Newcastle.
Wellbeing is about being the best you can be – physically, emotionally and spiritually. SummitCare provide care and lifestyle choices to support 900 residents and 1000 staff to live the lives they choose, ensuring each member of the SummitCare family reaches their optimum wellbeing, every single day.
Dementia affects close to half a million Australians. Unfortunately, many of us will start experiencing the impact of dementia amongst our own family and friends in the coming years.
As the residential aged care world faces its possibly toughest time, leading NSW provider SummitCare is developing a series of articles around the theme of Trust and Purpose, designed to give readers some insights into what they do, and how and why they do it.
Aged Care Employee Day will be celebrated across Australia on Friday 7 August with the call going out across the nation to honour aged care workers and volunteers by saying “thanks for caring."
As we all know, Australia’s population is ageing. Currently, 3.7 million of us are aged 65 years and over — that’s about one in every seven people. And overall, Australians enjoy one of the highest life expectancies in the world.
In 2020, an estimated 459,000 Australians have dementia. While many of them live at home with the support of families and carers, a large proportion of people with some form of dementia live in residential aged care homes. For all of them, professional support is vital.
International studies into aged care show that connectedness and activity bring psychological, mental and physical health benefits to the elderly, especially those living with cognitive conditions like dementia and Parkinson’s Disease.
SummitCare’s residential aged care home in Wallsend, Newcastle begins a new era as it completes a period of transformation that now sees it ranked as one of the region’s leading aged care services by its residents and their families.
Four free information sessions, operated by Aged Care provider SummitCare will be held at Liverpool Library every Tuesday throughout the month of September from 10:30am until 12:00pm. Located at 170 George Street in Liverpool, the four free sessions are set with the theme of understanding your choices, maintaining control and enhancing your health when working through the ageing processes.
With less than a week to go before his first residents arrive at SummitCare Baulkham Hills, executive chef Amit Nagpal is excited to be busily putting the finishing touches to his first mouth-watering menus. He and his team of up to 15 kitchen staff will be creating a wide range of delicious freshly cooked meals at the state-of-the-art residential aged care centre.
It started with a piece of cake and a coffee as part of a community café program at SummitCare Wallsend, and has resulted in an program that will bring respite to carers of older Australians living in the area.
Find out about SummitCare's stunning new Baulkham Hills home and get some advice about aged care for yourself or your loved ones.
Laughter and learning are the order of the day at a special new playgroup that unites some of the youngest members of the community with senior residents.
The "future is in your hands" aged care expo will give you and your family the opportunity to meet and chat in a relaxed environment to hearing, sight and behavior specialists, health, nutrition and wellness experts, aged care planners, financial planners and much more.
Aged care organisations throughout Australia will be supported to integrate enhanced spiritual care into everyday practice, thanks to an important set of guidelines launched last week.
Cynthia Payne, CEO SummitCare joined Clr Dr Michelle Byrne, Mayor, The Hills Shire Council and 90 other enthusiastic local supporters at the 'The Hills Shire Mayoral Sleep out' on Saturday.
SummitCare is participating in the 2016 Hills Winter Sleep Out initiative to raise awareness of homelessness and its causes.
Making pizza may be a simple process for many people, but for the residents of leading NSW aged care provider, SummitCare, it is a meaningful activity that is fostering connections and enhancing their wellbeing.
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