Blue Care

Originally established as the Blue Nursing Service by the Methodist Church in 1953, it has grown into one of the largest not-for-profit providers of residential aged care, community care and retirement living in Queensland and northern New South Wales.

[2] The Newtown Methodist Mission in Sydney, launched an aged care nursing service in 1949.

[4] The service was to provide in-home nursing care to those who needed it on Brisbane's southside suburbs.

[3] Within three weeks of the launch, Sister Crombie was fully busy and the Lord Mayor of Brisbane Frank Roberts commenced fundraising to expand the service,[5] offering to donate a pay rise of £350 towards the Blue Nursing Service or a similar municipal scheme.

[7] By November 1953, the Brisbane service expanded to a second full-time daytime nurse and three people who would do housework for the sick.