Blacktown Hospital
| Blacktown Hospital | |
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Blacktown Mount Druitt Health Western Sydney Local Health District | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Coordinates | 33°46′32″S 150°55′03″E / 33.7756°S 150.9175°ECoordinates: 33°46′32″S 150°55′03″E / 33.7756°S 150.9175°E |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public Medicare (AU) |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of Western Sydney |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 400 |
| History | |
| Founded | April 1965 |
| Links | |
| Website | Official Website |
| Lists | Hospitals in Australia |
Blacktown Hospital is an acute care hospital in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. Together with Mount Druitt Hospital and associated community health centres,[1] it is a part of the Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD).[2]
Blacktown Hospital has approximately 400 beds. It provides a wide range of health services including:[3]
- Ante-Natal/Gynaecology Unit
- Delivery Suite
- Post-Natal
- Special Care Nursery
- Acute Medical
- Coronary Care and Coronary Stepdown Unit
- Diabetes Center
- Acute Rehabilitation
- Acute Stroke Unit
- Pre-Admission Clinic
- Day Procedure Unit
- Orthopaedic
- Surgical
- Surgical/Medical Short Stay Unit
- Intensive Care Unit
- High Dependency
- Oncology Services
- Mental Health
- Regional Dialysis Centre
- Community Health Services including Dental.
It operates a 24-hour emergency department and a full Intensive Care Unit and CCU. It also has 24 hour medical imaging and pathology services on site.
The hospital is a teaching hospital of the University of Western Sydney's Blacktown-Mount Druitt Clinical School and University of Sydney's Western Clinical School.
The Hospital also includes Bungarribee House, a psychiatric unit that, along with Cumberland Hospital provides mental health services to western Sydney. The hospital's sub-acute mental health care facility, called the Melaleuca Unit, opened in 2014.
Expansion Project
In 2012, the NSW Government announced Blacktown Mount Druitt Hospital Expansion Project Stage 1.[4] The Blacktown Hospital projects include:
- A new sub-acute (step-down) mental health care unit called the Melaleuca Unit, completed in 2014
- A new clinical services building for cancer, cardiac, respiratory and aged care including a new cancer care unit, opening in 2016 and under construction by Laing O'Rourke.
- A new 600-space car park completed in 2014
- Infrastructure and service enhancements.
The new clinical services building is scheduled to open in 2016; further refurbishment of the existing hospital is scheduled to be completed in 2016.
Stage 2 of the project[5] is currently a planning project but is expected to include emergency, operating theatres, intensive care and women's and newborn health. In June 2015, the NSW Government announced an additional $30 million towards the planning of stage 2[6] in the 2105/16 financial year.