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Town tragedy – community meets on aged care home future

Pyramid Hill community will form a working group to collaborate with the Loddon Shire Council on options for use of the town’s aged care facility after an emotional meeting with the commercial operators, who made the shock announcement they would close the home a fortnight ago. Loddon Times, September 24, 2019 Read more

Health service’s calming new recruit

Five-month-old labrador-golden retriever cross Dill is in the final stages of training at Northern District Community Health, where she will work with her owner, a mental health nurse and psychotherapist, to detect and alleviate anxiety, depression and stress. Gannawarra Times, April 12, 2019 Read more

Former Student Journalist of the Year heading to Oxford in bid to tackle health policy

Melbourne Press Club, 2016: Former Melbourne Press Club Student Journalist of the Year Matt Pierri is headed to Oxford University after winning a Rhodes scholarship. Pierri, who won the Press Club prize in 2012 for a first-person feature about people with spinal cord injuries who pursue the recovery of the use of their limbs, will study public policy at … Continue reading