The Mount Druitt community is being provided with their first look at plans for the expanded Mount Druitt Hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minns Labor Government is investing $120 million in the upgrade of Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospitals to provide expanded and contemporary acute medical and surgical capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project will include 60 additional beds across Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The plans show the area for the planned upgrades, which will deliver modern health care facilities to service one of the country\u2019s fastest-growing communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A mix of new and refurbished clinical areas and support spaces will form part of the redevelopment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Welcoming and culturally inclusive spaces for consumers, staff, and visitors will be central to the planning and design process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Staff, stakeholders and the community are invited to attend an information session at Mount Druitt Hospital to meet the project team and learn more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Staff, stakeholders, and the community will continue to be consulted as the project progresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Planning and design will continue throughout 2025, with construction timeframes to be finalised as part of planning and once a builder has been appointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Construction work will be carried out in stages to minimise disruption to clinical services, which will remain operational throughout the redevelopment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project will build on the $700 million expansion of Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospitals completed in 2020 which has expanded capacity at both hospitals. This included a new Emergency Department (ED), cancer centre, and inpatient facilities at Blacktown Hospital and additional renal dialysis and inpatient facilities at Mount Druitt Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The redevelopment is being delivered by Health Infrastructure and Western Sydney Local Health District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For more information visit: Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospitals \u2013 Additional beds – Health Infrastructure NSW.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is part of the Minns Labor Government\u2019s delivery of more than $3 billion in hospital infrastructure across western Sydney, including: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Minister for Health, Ryan Park:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is the first important stage of the $120 million investment into Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe project will expand medical and surgical capacity at both hospitals boosting healthcare access for the growing local community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis project will minimise the need to transfer patients from Mount Druitt Emergency Department to Blacktown ED leading to more efficient operation of both EDs, and a better service offering for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Member for Mount Druitt, Edmond Atalla:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m delighted to see continued investment in Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospitals to support our growing area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI, along with the community look forward to seeing this project take shape as the planning and design process progresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Blacktown and Mount Druitt project is estimated to support approximately 200 direct jobs with the potential for supporting hundreds of indirect jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Graeme Loy, Chief Executive, Western Sydney Local Health District:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “This expansion will strengthen the services available to the people of Mount Druitt making a more specialised level of care available to the local community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cProviding increased health services is essential to continuing to support the local Aboriginal community, patients and their families and carers to access the care they need at their local hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe additional medical and surgical capacity will add to the comprehensive paediatric and renal services currently available at Mount Druitt Hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mount Druitt community is being provided with their first look at plans for the expanded Mount Druitt Hospital. The Minns Labor Government is investing $120 million in the upgrade of Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospitals to provide expanded and contemporary acute medical and surgical capacity. The project will include 60 additional beds across Blacktown … Continue reading “First look at the expanded Mount Druitt Hospital”<\/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-32729","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\/32729","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=32729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32730,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32729\/revisions\/32730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n