Public Hospitals & Health Services - Capital Projects

Rural and Regional Health Capital Developments 2008/2009

Funds have been provided in the 2008/2009 State Budget for the following capital redevelopments in Rural Victoria:

$70.1 million for the second phase of South West Healthcare’s Warrnambool Hospital redevelopment which will include a new inpatients’ building and associated facilities;

$9.5 million to redevelop the Bendigo Hospital emergency department and to provide an eight-bed short-stay unit to better manage patients requiring stays of less than 24 hours;

$1 million for detailed design work at the Alexandra District Hospital redevelopment, to deliver an entirely new integrated hospital and community health service;

$21 million for a new Latrobe Community Health Service building in Morwell, including new offices, consulting rooms and facilities for allied health such as alcohol and drug services, counselling, physiotherapy, district nursing, palliative care and five new dental chairs;

Bendigo Residential Aged Care Facility: $13.6 million to replace Bendigo Health’s outdated Stella Anderson Nursing Home, with a new, 60-bed facility with better environmental amenity, comfort, safety, security and privacy for residents and staff;

Hepburn Health Service’s Trentham Campus redevelopment: $8 million for the redevelopment of 15 high-care residential aged care beds and primary care services, refurbishment of the low-care facility, a new medical consulting suite, emergency stabilisation area, primary care and community activity centre, and support areas;

$5.5 million has been provided to reconfigure the mental health Adult Acute Unit at Ballarat Hospital to improve access and client amenity and to refurbish Ballarat’s Queen Victoria building to accommodate Community Mental Health facilities and

$8.1 million for new rural dental teaching chairs in Mildura and Wodonga for the training of students completing their studies at La Trobe University’s Bendigo campus.

$4.5 million will be provided to the Rural Ambulance Victoria Station Upgrades and Service Expansion strategy, completing the 2006 Government election commitment.  Facilities will be upgraded at Avoca, Ballarat and Neerim South, as well as providing capacity for service expansion at Anglesea, Colac and Timboon. 

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