The expansion of Joondalup Health Campus has reached a milestone, with construction underway on a new 112-bed public ward block – part of a $270 million project.
The building will accommodate a 30-bed medical and surgical inpatient ward as well as a 16-bed cardiac care unit and will be linked to the existing main hospital to allow for the seamless transfer of patients.
It will also link to the recently completed 102-bed Mental Health Unit, which was opened in August.
The building will accommodate a 30-bed medical and surgical inpatient ward as well as a 16-bed cardiac care unit and will be linked to the existing main hospital to allow for the seamless transfer of patients.
It will also link to the recently completed 102-bed Mental Health Unit, which was opened in August this year.
Premier Roger Cook said the State Government was committed to modernising and expanding health services to ensure they met the needs of public patients into the future.
“Joondalup Health Campus is a major medical hub and the significant upgrades we are undertaking will only cement its value to the local community in our northern suburbs,” Mr Cook said.
The new beds will support the expansion of surgical services underway at the hospital, including:
- a new operating theatre (taking the total to 13 operating theatres);
- a new Interventional Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory (taking the total to two);
- a new, larger anaesthetic room (taking the total to five);
- four new Post Anaesthesia Care Unit bed bays (taking the total to 30);
- five additional pre-surgery holding bays (taking the total to 15); and
- increased clinical support areas.
The addition of a new theatre and new catheterisation lab on site will enable the hospital to expand its current range of clinical services and cater for more patients to support emergency and elective care.
Services include orthopaedic and general surgery, ear, nose and throat, urology and vascular surgery, and cancer surgery, with the hospital also the State referral service for bariatric and peritonectomy.
The 112-bed ward block will include the construction of 66 beds to be set aside to meet future demand.
The new facility is part of the $269.4 million expansion of Joondalup Health Campus co-funded by the State and Commonwealth Governments and supports the WA Government’s commitment to modernising public health facilities.
The project was a 2017 WA Labor election commitment, which has seen the 102-bed Mental Health Unit, expansion of the ED and staff car park already completed and opened.