The $350 million Regional Health Infrastructure Fund is a grant program funded by the Victorian Government to assist regional and rural public health and public sector residential aged care services to improve:

• safety
• quality of services
• service capacity
• models of care
• patient and staff amenity
• service efficiency.

Grants are available for:

• construction, remodelling and refurbishment projects
• equipment including standalone furniture, fittings, medical equipment, engineering infrastructure and plant
• information and communications technology
• new technologies including systems to reduce usage and increase efficiencies of power and/or water.

Submissions are evaluated against an established set of criteria including:

• strategic alignment
• healthcare improvement
• service capacity and demand pressures
• project readiness including governance
• buildability.

All Victorian regional public health services, local and small rural health services, public residential aged care services, registered community health services, bush nursing hospitals and centres, women’s health services and Aboriginal community run health organisations are eligible for grant funding.

The Regional Health Infrastructure Fund is the largest grant program of its kind in Victorian history. Grants assist rural and regional public health and public sector residential aged care services to ensure Victorians, regardless of where they live, have access to quality health care when they need it most.

This means health services can treat more patients quicker, and our hardworking doctors and nurses have the modern and safe working environments they deserve.

It also helps make public health and public sector residential aged care services more efficient, improve models of care, and increase their capacity to provide high quality healthcare as Victoria continues to grow.