Construction is underway on a new community health clinic on Adelaide Road in Murray Bridge.
The $10M Moorundi Aboriginal Community medical centre is being built, following 20 years of planning and advocacy and a $9M Federal Government investment.
Thanks to a partnership between Aboriginal health workers and non-Indigenous GPs, Moorundi has grown into an organisation with more than 40 staff in Murray Bridge, Raukkan and Victor Harbor.
CEO Steven Sumner said when completed, the new centre will offer health care for all community members.
“It’s not just Indigenous people that come to us, we have non-Indigenous people that come to our service because they like the way its delivered but we have our own people that still love other services within Murray Bridge and other areas, so just by giving them that choice I think that allows them to take care of their health a lot better,” Steven Sumner said in an ARN Radio interview with Jennie Lenman.
Sumner said his team collaborates with other organisations to offer career pathways for young Indigenous people.
“We’re trying to channel our school leavers especially, into the health field. If there’s an opportunity there, we’ve taken on trainees for the last six years and have had some really good success with retention, so that’s what we’re about. We’re about the future, not just the past.”
He is expecting the keys to be handed by June 2025 with an opening date soon after.
