This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
THE centrepiece of the new $632 million Campbelltown Hospital has been officially opened by NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet and Health minister Brad Hazzard.
Member for Camden Peter Sidgreaves and Member for Wollondilly Nathaniel Smith were also on hand to open the 12-storey clinical services building, the centrepiece of the stage two redevelopment.
The hospital’s emergency department has tripled in size and has had 33,000 emergency presentations and over 950 babies born since opening last year.
“It has been wonderful to see this amazing project progress to a modern facility, enabling our dedicated frontline staff to deliver high-quality care to the people of Macarthur,” Perrottet said.
The $632 million investment is on top of the $134 million stage one redevelopment of Campbelltown Hospital and the new $34 million hospital car park.
“This magnificent new $632 million clinical tower will help future-proof local health services for years to come to accommodate the growing population of Macarthur,” Hazzard said.
The new tower includes a new maternity unit, increased medical and surgical services, expanded children’s services and integrated mental health services.
Sidgreaves said the building will service the more than 130,000 new residents expected to call the Macarthur Region home over the next decade.
Some 4,000 workers were employed to support construction for redevelopment over the past three years.
Since the commissioning of the new building, staff have performed more than 1,500 surgical procedures and cared for more than 780 inpatients through its new children’s unit. The redevelopment is on track for overall completion in late 2023, with works commencing on the first nuclear medicine department, an expanded medical imaging department and an additional entrance.
The NSW government is investing $11.9 billion in health infrastructure to 2025-26. More than 180 hospitals and health facilities have been built since 2011, with a further 130 currently underway.
The Campbelltown Hospital clinical building was designed by Billard Leece Partnership.
A key architectural response to the planning and integration of services is the art-filled Hospital Street, which the architects say is a “lofty indoor avenue, featuring a collection of works by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, (that) connects the new and existing facilities as the fulcrum from which all the hospital services are now accessed.”
It is serviced by food and retail outlets, as well as play and recreation zones.
“The design of Hospital Street was a game-changing moment in the project, because it unlocked the potential of the whole site, allowing us to integrate the various new wings as well as create strong new connections to light, landscape and the community,” said Adam Muggleton, BLP principal and project director.
“In its scale we think of it more as an airport terminal.
“The height helped us purposefully manage level changes between the existing and new facilities, and future-proofs the hospital because further additions can simply plug-in along this spine.”
