Forest Lake Lodge

About

Nursing Home

Story

Dr Sid Lau purchased Sylvan Lodge Nursing Home (Toowong) in 1989 as an
ongoing concern. His decision to purchase Sylvan Lodge was inspired by his
experiences as a General Practitioner providing medical care to residents at
nursing homes. There were obvious areas for improvement. In 1978 together
with the staff at Mentone Nursing Home (Melbourne) a non-restraint policy
for wandering dementia residents was successfully implemented.

From 1989 to 2000 Sid Lau continued to advance his care services at
Sylvan Lodge but it became clear that a new, more spacious structure was required.
Sid Lau took this opportunity to design a new facility based on requirements of
highly impaired residents and staff needs instead of modifing established designs.
The finished product was so different to the normal nursing home design the
building now known as Forest Lake Lodge.

It was an exciting day in 2000 when the residents transferred from Sylvan Lodge
in Toowong to the new building, Forest Lake Lodge in Forest Lake.
The new building was based on a village concept with the central lounge acting
like a village centre. Nurse station, hair dressing salon, kitchen servery all encircle
the outer edge of the central lounge like shop fronts.

The residential courts branch off from the central lounge. Each residential court
has an internal garden courtyard that brings in filtered sunlight and fresh air.
The common passageways are like wide verandahs.

Our extra high care wing (Wattle) wraps around the outside of the Lillypilly
and Jacaranda wings.

Growth was required to achieve economies of scale and provide better options
of care. In January 2008 construction commenced on the Forest Lake Lodge
stage 2. Stage 2 is a 3 level building designed to accommodate 20 dementia
specific high care, 40 low care and services (Kitchen, Laundry, maintenance
and staff facilities).

The Dementia Specific level has been designed with state of the art security,
secured inside and out recreational areas and staffed by staff with specific
dementia training. Level 1 houses the new greatly expanded laundry, kitchen,
maintenance and staff areas.

Current bed size is 139 funded and 10 provisional. Total bed size 155

Kitchen rating 5 Star with Brisbane City Council

Forest Lake Lodge is a division of Lollies Management, other owned interests are Sylvan Lodge 9 Bayliss
St Toowong consisting 38 studio apartments and 97 Alfred st Brisbane consiting of 47 studio appartments.
Our seperate division Dollies Managment Pty.Ltd owns The Gap Cubby house child care centres.

Indroopilly Doctor Surgery is also owned by Doctor Lau.

Approved Provider
Director Doctor Sid Lau - Lollies Managment Pty.Ltd
Deputy Director - Lollies Management Pty.Ltd Sue-Fay Lau
Director of Nursing/HRM/Finance- Facility Manager Mr Clayton Rickert.
Assistant Director of Nursing Mrs Cindy Pham- Nguyen.

ADON Clinical Nurse Consultant Building 1 Mrs Cindy Pham-Nguyen
ADON Clinical Nurse Consultant Building 2 Mrs Mandy Wu

Legal Department Minter Ellison, CRH lawyers
Workplace Health and Safety Officer Amanda MacPherson
Kitchen Supervisor Debra Marschke
Laundry Supervisor Denia Mena

Mission

Quality, Dignity, Individuality

Products

Aged Care.
Young Care.
Disability Care.
Specialised Dementia Care.
Specialised Tracheostomy and Enteral feeding.
Long stay hospital Patients accepted under Queensland Health and FLL MOU.
Most languages catered for onsite by Multicultural staff.