DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Kareena Private Hospital development on the home stretch
Nowra Private Hospital set for $10 million re-development
Development approval has been received for a major redevelopment at Nowra Private Hospital, which will include a new ward to keep up with growing demand.
The project will include the construction of 14 new private
rooms with attached ensuites at the southern end of
the building.
An extra operating theatre and anaesthetic bay will be built to
accommodate the recruitment of new surgeons to the hospital.
It will become the fourth operating theatre at the site and will
provide surgeons with dedicated theatre sessions to help
progress their practices.
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Ramsay Health Care Australia CEO tours
Hollywood Private Hospital developments
Ramsay Health Care Australia Chief Executive, Danny Sims, recently toured Hollywood Private Hospital
to see first-hand the developments underway.
During his visit, Mr Sims was shown the comprehensive
cancer centre, which is due to open in March 2020 giving
Western Australians better access to leading edge cancer
treatments and extensive clinical trials.
Remarkably, more than 750,000 cubic kilograms of concrete
and 662,000 kilograms of steel have been used on the
project so far. This includes 1.8 metre thick concrete walls
and ceilings where two radiation bunkers are being built.
The comprehensive cancer centre will form part of the
new Hollywood Consulting Centre, a broader project that
will see the establishment of four new endoscopy suites,
37 new consulting rooms and a 280 bay multi story car park.
Mr Sims was also shown the mental health expansion,
which will include the establishment of 31 inpatient beds
and a new mental health day hospital due to open in
July 2020.
Internal construction is underway on a $12 million
project to expand accommodation facilities for
patients at Kareena Private Hospital.
Kareena Private Hospital CEO Steven Rajcany said: “We are
adding a new ward which includes 37 new beds to meet
the increasing demand for surgical services in Sydney’s
Sutherland Shire.
Surgical cases have increased by seven per cent in the last
year; orthopaedic surgical cases have gone up by 16 per cent.
“New doctors are coming to the Shire to offer new services,
so we’ve been able to commission new theatres and
subsequently we have had an increase in demand for
services,” Mr Rajcany said.
Existing shared rooms inside the hospital will also be converted
into private rooms, which will bring the hospital’s bed capacity
to more than 160.
Construction started in October last year and is on track to
finish well before Christmas, after the concrete slab for the new
ward was laid.
“From this point on, they are really moving forward quite heavily.
There was a huge amount of excavation that had to be done to
get the slab down and that is all completed now,” Mr Rajcany said.
Currently, the hospital offers a wide range of surgery in various
specialities including orthopaedics, general, urology, plastics
and ear nose and throat.
The changes are expected to attract new surgeons to the
hospital, with the capacity to offer more theatre time and more
inpatient beds.
“Already six new surgeons have started using the hospital
because they have seen the development progressing,”
Mr Rajcany said.
Once construction has finished, there will be 15 new full-time
positions across nursing, allied health and support.
Further development is planned at the hospital, including
another theatre, expansion of the day surgery and
extra beds.
Hollywood Private Hospital CEO Peter Mott and
Ramsay Australia CEO Danny Sims.
A new day surgery admissions area will be built to
accommodate six new recovery chairs for day surgery
patients to use.
200 staff are currently employed at the hospital and
the re-development will include a new lounge area for
them to use.
There will also be a slight upgrade to the hospital’s reception
area, a new central sterile services department (CSSD) and
a new entry to the hydropool to modernise the facility which
was built back in the 1970s.
Currently 50 per cent of all surgical cases in the district are
performed at the site but the renovation will give the hospital
the capacity to install extra beds in the future to deal with the
growing health needs of the local population.
The development is expected to be completed in early 2020.