Whether you need care at your place or one of ours, BlueCross will be there to help you. Our commitment is to provide the highest possible quality care with the best health outcomes for each individual. BlueCross provides high quality support and care with the flexibility and responsiveness to ensure a smooth transition through our services as individual care needs change.
We maintain a vision to be recognised as a leader of best practice in the delivery services that are changing the face of aged care, focusing on wellness and capabilities.
A dynamic organisation, BlueCross is supported by a team of great staff, who are willing to challenge traditions. With a long history of embracing change, BlueCross’ progressive approach in the delivery of care is evident across all of our services.
The BlueCross advantage
BlueCross offers the unique ability to navigate effortlessly between a broad suite of services, across the complete continuum of ageing (home care, respite, transitional, residential). BlueCross provides streamlined support and care with the flexibility and responsiveness to ensure a smooth transition, all from a single provider. Whether care is needed at a client’s home or at one of our residences, for one hour or 24 hours a day, BlueCross is there to help.
Person centred care
All of our care services follow a person-first set of principles that honour the person before the task. These practices provide the basis for: creating a daily life worth living, striving to nurture the mind as well as the spirit; and promoting growth and development for all.
BlueCross works on a range of initiatives to support social, physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual wellness. We recognise the individual capability of each of our clients and encourage them to participate in decision making which enables people receiving care to feel in control rather than controlled.
We endeavour to deliver a service that BlueCross residences are welcoming, safe, and secure and offer access to both indoor and outdoor activities, and provide a range of public and private spaces for resident’s, families and friends to enjoy.
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My mother is a resident at Blue Cross Silverwood Templestowe and the staff and management are absolutely wonderful! They provide a very high standard of care for her. The staff and management are always friendly and easy to approach. I would highly recommend this facility to anyone who has a loved one that wants to be cared for with dignity. Congratulations Blue Cross Silverwood Templestowe on providing a service second to none!
The human brain works in mysterious ways, and studies have shown how it can be attracted to patterns and rhythm, making music therapy most beneficial for people with memory loss.
Moving from your own home to a residential aged care home can be an overwhelming experience. When living at home is no longer an option, this can sometimes be the best solution for many older people – as new BlueCross residents Sue and John Blackman discover.
Anisha Ravishankar loved her fortnightly visits to BlueCross Broughtonlea in Surrey Hills. With her saxophone in tow, the Year 9 student at Presbyterian Ladies’ College had been getting residents’ feet tapping to her uplifting and jazzy music for months until the COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to her visits.
Travelling has a way of opening one’s mind, especially when exploring a new place and a new culture. For Kate Bywaters, Lifestyle Coordinator at BlueCross Ruckers Hill, her passion in travelling also opened her heart during a chance visit to a café in the Himalayas.
William, a Year 10 student at St Kevin’s College, has been visiting BlueCross The Gables as part of the school’s community volunteering project. Along with a few other students, William visits The Gables once a week to spend time with the residents.
All around the world, as well as in Australia, it is not unusual to see a teddy bear or two peeping out of a window, balcony or fence. If you are wondering what this is all about, welcome to one of the latest and most popular activities to keep children entertained during the coronavirus pandemic – teddy bear hunt! No one knows where or how the trend began, but residents at BlueCross Livingstone Gardens are certainly not missing out on the fun!
Anyone passing by BlueCross Baradine in Mooroolbark (VIC) will either do a double take or stop to admire the wall of messages outside the aged care home.
More than 10 residents from across various BlueCross aged care residences are getting together for an art exhibition to showcase their creative expressions in sculpture, paintings and textiles.
Leading aged care provider BlueCross has unveiled its new logo, as part of its rebrand to bring merger partner Sapphire Care under the same banner.
The Board of BlueCross has announced the permanent appointment of Robert Putamorsi as the Chief Executive Officer of the company, following a one-year period as Interim CEO.
BlueCross Cresthaven, the newest aged care residence in Malvern East, is opening in September and the public has been invited to come for a tour on Saturday 24 August 2019.
The newest aged care residence by leading aged care provider BlueCross has been recognised at the City of Whitehorse Built Environment Awards 2019 on Thursday 6 June 2019.
The newest aged care residence in Box Hill is opening in October, and the public got to see it first hand on Saturday 22 September 2018.
BlueCross|SapphireCare is delighted to announce the appointment of Robert Putamorsi as the Interim Chief Executive, effective 6 August 2018. He is taking over from Adjunct Professor Alan Lilly who has been the CEO since September 2016.
You're invited to attend BlueCross Ivanhoe's Open Day on Saturday 9th December and take a tour of the beautiful home. There will be a free sausage sizzle, scones and entertainment for the whole family to enjoy!
An innovative, intergenerational program hosted at BlueCross’ Livingstone Gardens Aged Care Residence, and devised by Livingstone Primary School, is closing the gap between the old and new generations.
BlueCross and Sapphire Care are set to merge with immediate effect. Collectively, Sapphire Care and BlueCross have been providing high quality community and residential care services for almost forty years and throughout this time, they have built trusted brands and respected reputations within the communities which they serve.
More than 2000 people visited the brand new BlueCross Ivanhoe residence for its Open Day, late last month. The day was enjoyed with free music, entertainment, barista made coffee, Greek doughnuts and a very popular sausage sizzle! Popular radio presenter, David Mann ‘Mann about town’ made a special visit to BlueCross Ivanhoe and had these things to say about the new home “BlueCross Ivanhoe is quite remarkable…I found out that years and years ago that it was an old milk factory. Who told me that? One of the locals. The fixtures and fitting are beautiful and are all tailored for us as we grow older”.
We’re pleased to announce that BlueCross Ivanhoe will be opening its doors to the public! The Open Day will be held at 250 Waterdale Road Ivanhoe, from 10am – 4pm on Saturday 29th April.
It has been well documented and reported that Australia has an ageing population and the government, community groups, volunteers and aged care providers are moving quickly to provide sufficient support to the growing number of patients requiring care. Of this group, over 400,000 are living with dementia in Australia and in the next 20 years, the number of people with dementia is projected to increase by 90% to over 760,000.
Each year, BlueCross Community and Residential Services throw a huge birthday party, inviting all the residents and clients who have turned 97 and over. This event brings guests, family and staff together for a grand celebration to recognise their incredible lives and achievements. The 97+ Birthday celebration has become a popular BlueCross tradition since the first was held in 2010.
One of Australia’s first tech men, Lawrie Griffiths recently celebrated his 101st Birthday. He reflected on a time when computers were only really seen in sci-fi films and people manually performed the tasks of modern day computers.
BlueCross Livingstone Gardens will open its doors to all, this Sunday the 19th of February with a Community Open Day.
The Member for Chisholm Julia Banks, and BlueCross CEO Alan Lilly recently officiated a ground-breaking ceremony for a new state-of-the-art aged care residence being built in Box Hill.
If you can’t take 1700 aged care residents to the Canadian Ice Caps, why not bring the Canadian Ice Caps to the residents through the magic of virtual reality.
