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Church approval still needed for new Calvary deal

Published: March 22, 2010

Calvary Hospital

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Little Company of Mary Health Care supports the ACT Government's new offer to buy Calvary Hospital, but the Church has yet to approve the deal, The Canberra Times reports.

Chief minister Jon Stanhope wrote to the Catholic Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn Mark Coleridge on Friday outlining a deal to buy the Calvary buildings while LCM continued to provide heath-care services, the newspaper reported.

Chairman of the Little Company of Mary Health Care Tom Brennan said he supported the fledgling proposal.

"We're happy for this to go ahead. Because of the Archbishop's position on the earlier proposition it couldn't go ahead. If he agrees to this, then I expect that it would go ahead and go ahead very quickly," Mr Brennan said.

The Canberra Times was unable to contact Canberra-Goulburn Archbishop Coleridge, whom ACT Health Minister Katy Gallagher has blamed for the collapse of previous negotiations. Ms Gallagher said the Archbishop was cautious when the Government approached him with the new proposal.

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Calvary sale waits for higher authority (The Canberra Times)

 

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