The Canberra centre offers up to 12 people with common eating disorders like anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge-eating disorder 24/7 sub-acute care from a multidisciplinary team.
Australia's first publicly-funded specialist residential eating disorder treatment centre is ready to offer a "place that feels like home" to patients in Canberra .
It will be staffed by a multidisciplinary team which includes general practitioners, nurses, dieticians, exercise physiologists, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists. Ms Toohey acknowledged there would be "challenges" when people initially arrived at the centre when it came to eating, but that staff would support them through that.
Canberra mum Vanessa, who made the difficult decision to move her child Haven to Victoria to seek treatment for an eating disorder, is disappointed by the age limit. Vanessa said her now 14-year-old child wouldn't yet be considered medically stable and able to attend such a centre.
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