{"id":8425,"date":"2020-09-29T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T12:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8425"},"modified":"2020-09-29T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T12:22:02","slug":"new-ambulance-station-for-goulburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/29\/new-ambulance-station-for-goulburn\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW AMBULANCE STATION FOR GOULBURN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goulburn now has a new ambulance station under the NSW Government\u2019s record $122 million Rural Ambulance Infrastructure Reconfiguration program.<br \/>\nPremier Gladys Berejiklian and Health Minister Brad Hazzard, along with Member for Goulburn Wendy Tuckerman, officially opened the purpose-built facility.<br \/>\n\u201cThe NSW Government\u2019s significant investment in new and upgraded ambulance stations for regional and rural areas is the single largest in the 120-year history of NSW Ambulance,\u201d Ms Berejiklian said.<br \/>\n\u201cThis new ambulance station is the latest of 36 new or rebuilt NSW Ambulance facilities across the state, 24 of which are in the rural and regional locations.\u201d<br \/>\nMr Hazzard said the new station will greatly improve emergency services for the southern region, providing local paramedics with a state-of-the-art facility and equipment.<br \/>\n\u201cThis project is an important step in the delivery of high-quality mobile emergency care to the people of Goulburn and surrounding areas,\u201d Mr Hazzard said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe $122 million investment in regional and rural ambulance facilities is on top of a record $184 million for 11 new metropolitan Superstations, nine of which are already open, and one traditional station at Mona Vale, as well as a number of upgraded stations across greater Sydney.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Tuckerman said the new station would meet the emergency care needs of Goulburn and surrounds for years to come.<br \/>\n\u201cThe community can be assured that NSW Ambulance has the equipment to provide the best out-of-hospital clinical care to all patients across the region.\u201d<br \/>\nThe new purpose-built station on Bourke Street features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internal parking for up to eight emergency ambulance vehicles;<\/li>\n<li>Administration and office areas;<\/li>\n<li>Staff amenities;<\/li>\n<li>Multipurpose meeting\/training room;<\/li>\n<li>Logistics and storage areas; and<\/li>\n<li>Staff parking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ambulance stations operational under the RAIR program include Goulburn, Wagga Wagga, Coolamon, Ardlethan, Harden, Molong, Griffith, Kiama, Berry, Bay &amp; Basin, Toukley, Wauchope, Hamlyn Terrace, Bathurst, Pottsville, Yass, Rutherford, Bungendore, Birmingham Gardens,\u00a0 Cowra and Grenfell.<br \/>\nThe 2019-20 Budget for the NSW Ambulance Service was more than $1 billion, including $27.1 million to employ 221 paramedics and control centre staff as part of a record 750 workforce boost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goulburn now has a new ambulance station under the NSW Government\u2019s record $122 million Rural Ambulance Infrastructure Reconfiguration program. Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Health Minister Brad Hazzard, along with Member for Goulburn Wendy Tuckerman, officially opened the purpose-built facility. \u201cThe NSW Government\u2019s significant investment in new and upgraded ambulance stations for regional and rural areas &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/29\/new-ambulance-station-for-goulburn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NEW AMBULANCE STATION FOR GOULBURN&#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-8425","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\/8425","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=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}