Following the retirement of Margie Hepner, on behalf of the Board of Glengollan Village, I am pleased to advise that our new CEO, Alex McKenna, has been appointed.
Margie has led Glengollan for nearly 10 years with a delicate balance of resident care and wellbeing along with the commercial acumen. We thank Margie for her incredible service to our organisation and wish her well.
Alex is enthusiastic to enter his role as CEO.
Neville Sanders
President
Volunteer Morning Tea 2025
Every year Glengollan puts on a morning tea for our fabulous volunteers, who greatly assist with the wellbeing of our residents with all they do for us.
This year we had the Ferntree Gully North primary school attend to belt out a few songs for the volunteers. The children combined their songs with some choreography, including “it’s a Hard Knock Life” from the musical Annie – They were a knock out – all budding stars in the making!
Our event was catered by the ‘Friends of Glengollan” and was delicious as usual.
Alby’s Café & Op Shop opened in August and has been a very exciting addition for our Aged Care Residents – it’s outside the facility and a different environment for our Residents to kick back and relax in our 50s theme café.
Here the Residents can sit and chat in our diner styled café – a checked floor, funky furniture and happy colours of red, yellow and blue feature predominately – wonderful music plays in the background.
Our Op Shop is well patronised – a selection of knick-knacks, stationery, jewellery, greeting cards and so much more are available to select – these items have been generously donated by Glengollan Staff Members and Residents’ families.
No payment required – this is an activity for our Residents enjoyment and our Staff enjoy it just as much!
The café operates on Tuesdays and the Op Shop fortnightly – both are run by our Lifestyle team.
If you would like to donate – please contact Reception for a list of accepted items.
As Fonzie would say…. “Aaay” 
Introducing Glengollan’s Spiritual Volunteer, Louis Suchon.
Louis previously worked at Glengollan as the Finance Manager and since retiring he has volunteered his time to bringing comfort to our Residents in all things spiritual.
As the Spiritual Volunteer, Louis visits weekly – either on a Thursday or a Friday – we are so grateful for his visits during these unprecedented times.
Not only providing spiritual support, Louis takes time for one-on-one chats with residents and works with the Lifestyle team arranging all the church services for the Aged Care Facility.
We welcome Louis’ visits and appreciate his gentle and caring manner.
Glengollan is fully committed to the safety of our residents and staff. We are working closely with all relevant Government departments to ensure we not only are following medical directives as they occur, but that we have robust processes and strategies in place to effectively manage the facility throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
Wednesday the 7th was National Aged Care Employee day. Glengollan feels very fortunate with the caring quality staff we have across all sections of the business.
The management team brainstormed ways we could show our appreciation and the decision was a ‘pop up’ coffee cart offering beverages and muffins during the day and a cooked meal for those working the night shift. We wanted the staff feel appreciated and by all feedback it was a hit. Hot beverages and muffins were consumed by our wonderful Glengollan team.
