New Hastings Community Centre

The new building for Hastings Community Services, i.e. the health centre "plus", is now open in High Street, Hastings, between the CFA fire station and the Western Port College.

As well as the Peninsula Health facilities from their former home on the corner of Coolstore Road and Victoria Street in Hastings, it will also include the Hastings Community Information and Support Centre from their former, and now empty, home in King Street. (Sadly the web site for the information centre, linked in our left hand column does not mention the new premises but it does detail their services which continue at the new centre).

Services provided through Peninsula Health will include dental, physiotherapy, speech pathology, dietetics, diabetes education, podiatry and children’s, women’s, and family and services. The Peninsula Health website is at http://www.peninsulahealth.org.au/

At the time of writing the one service lacking is doctors, which continue in their existing offices on either side of Victoria Street north of High Street in the centre of Hastings.

Hastings Community House is also moving into the new centre ready for its new season's activities starting in October. Though their website has also not yet been updated, their phone and email contact details remain as listed at http://www.hastingschi.com.au/ (click on the smile to get in!)

In a letter to the Hastings News August edition, local councillor Reade Smith suggests that the old community house buildings in Marine Parade "should be pulled down asap" but that other adjacent buildings should be retained and/or renovated.

Phone numbers:
Hastings Health Centre                                                 59792894
Hastings Community House:                                         5979 2918
Hastings Community Information & Support Centre         59792762