The Young community will benefit from a $250,000 funding boost from the NSW Government to upgrade health facilities in the Murrumbidgee Local Health District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minns Labor Government is investing a total of almost $12 million in 61 projects as part of the Regional Health Minor Works Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of the Program Young Hospital received $250,000 to upgrade its operating theatre equipment. This includes the purchase of an endoscopy reprocessing system to support improved clinical care for lower acuity surgeries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NSW Health Minister, Ryan Park:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “The NSW Government is committed to investing in upgrading health facilities to support better health outcomes for rural and regional communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Rural Minor Works Program will allow Murrumbidgee Local Health District to upgrade equipment at Young Hospital to enhance the working environment for health staff and improve patient experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe program is one of a number of investments our Government is making to strengthen rural and regional health services, so people have access to the best possible care close to home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Labor Spokesperson for Cootamundra, Stephen Lawrence MLC:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis new equipment upgrade at Young Hospital will help to ensure our clinical staff continue to offer the best high quality and timely care to patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cImprovements to these important regional facilities will also help to attract medical professionals to these communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Young community will benefit from a $250,000 funding boost from the NSW Government to upgrade health facilities in the Murrumbidgee Local Health District. The Minns Labor Government is investing a total of almost $12 million in 61 projects as part of the Regional Health Minor Works Program. As part of the Program Young Hospital … Continue reading “$250,000 to upgrade operating theatre equipment in Young”<\/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-30053","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\/30053","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=30053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30054,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30053\/revisions\/30054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}