{"id":1967,"date":"2019-03-18T23:46:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T23:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2019-03-18T23:46:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T23:46:20","slug":"nsw-labor-re-commits-to-3-5-million-upgrade-to-crookwell-district-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/03\/18\/nsw-labor-re-commits-to-3-5-million-upgrade-to-crookwell-district-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW Labor re-commits to $3.5 million upgrade to Crookwell District Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Daley Labor Government will deliver the $3.5 million upgrade for Crookwell District Hospital.<br \/>\nNSW Labor Leader Michael Daley was joined by Shadow Health Minister Walt Secord and Country Labor candidate Ursula Stephens to re-commit to the project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeldaleyMP\/status\/1107497510862348288\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1107497510862348288\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<article class=\"MediaCard\n           MediaCard--mediaForward\n           customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle\" data-scribe=\"element:photo_grid\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 50%\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaAsset ImageGrid ImageGrid--4 ImageGrid--roundedTop\"><a class=\"ImageGrid-image ImageGrid-image-0 CroppedImage CroppedImage--fillWidth\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeldaleyMP\/status\/1107497510862348288\/photo\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"CroppedImage-image js-cspForcedStyle\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D16bzR7U4AAEvQn?format=jpg&amp;name=360x360\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-image=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D16bzR7U4AAEvQn\" data-style=\" top:-28%;\" \/><\/a><a class=\"ImageGrid-image ImageGrid-image-1 CroppedImage CroppedImage--fillWidth\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeldaleyMP\/status\/1107497510862348288\/photo\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"CroppedImage-image js-cspForcedStyle\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D16epolUYAAFDqz?format=jpg&amp;name=360x360\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-image=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D16epolUYAAFDqz\" \/><\/a><a class=\"ImageGrid-image ImageGrid-image-2 CroppedImage CroppedImage--fillWidth\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeldaleyMP\/status\/1107497510862348288\/photo\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"CroppedImage-image js-cspForcedStyle\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D16epbUUkAEIj9s?format=jpg&amp;name=360x360\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-image=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D16epbUUkAEIj9s\" \/><\/a><a class=\"ImageGrid-image ImageGrid-image-3 CroppedImage CroppedImage--fillWidth\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeldaleyMP\/status\/1107497510862348288\/photo\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"CroppedImage-image js-cspForcedStyle\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D16esPKU0AAPowK?format=jpg&amp;name=360x360\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-image=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D16esPKU0AAPowK\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"resize-sensor\">\n<div class=\"resize-sensor-shrink\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NSW Labor\u2019s commitment for Crookwell District Hospital will cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improvements to emergency department;<\/li>\n<li>Additional hospital equipment; and<\/li>\n<li>An additional emergency department bed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Crookwell District Hospital\u2019s emergency department had 5,240 presentations in 2017-18 \u2013 a 14 per cent increase from the year 2013-14.<br \/>\nCountry Labor candidate for Goulburn Ursula Stephens said that the community had spoken and the need for the hospital upgrade was \u201cplain to see\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cAfter eight years of neglect, the Crookwell District Hospital will finally get its well-deserved,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nMr Daley praised Ms Stephens for her strong advocacy on this important issue \u2013 saying this project has only happened due to her strong local advocacy and the community-based campaign.<br \/>\nMs Stephens said: \u201cSadly, the Liberals and Nationals have the wrong priorities. They prefer to splurge $2.2 Billion on Sydney stadiums \u2013 whereas Labor wants to invest in our health and hospital system \u2013 especially regional facilities like Crookwell Hospital.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe Crookwell Hospital staff do a wonderful job, in difficult circumstances. There are genuine WHS issues that must be addressed and this upgrade will allow the Hospital to work with Health Infrastructure to overcome those genuine safety concerns for patients, staff and visitors\u201d, she said.<br \/>\n<strong><u>Key statistics on Crookwell District Hospital<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>15 per cent of urgent patients were not treated within the clinically recommended time period of 30 minutes;<\/li>\n<li>17 per cent of emergency patients weren\u2019t treated within the clinically recommended time period of 10 minutes; and<\/li>\n<li>10 per cent of patients admitted at the emergency department waited at least three hours and 18 minutes before they were able to leave the hospital.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Crookwell District Hospital is an 18 bed acute care facility providing general medical\u00a0services. The hospital has an emergency department operating 24 hours a day seven days per week. It is within the Southern NSW Local Health District \u2013 and it is more than 112 years old.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Daley Labor Government will deliver the $3.5 million upgrade for Crookwell District Hospital. NSW Labor Leader Michael Daley was joined by Shadow Health Minister Walt Secord and Country Labor candidate Ursula Stephens to re-commit to the project. NSW Labor\u2019s commitment for Crookwell District Hospital will cover: Improvements to emergency department; Additional hospital equipment; and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/03\/18\/nsw-labor-re-commits-to-3-5-million-upgrade-to-crookwell-district-hospital\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NSW Labor re-commits to $3.5 million upgrade to Crookwell District Hospital&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}