Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital Redevelopment Stage 2 tops out
NSW Government's $265 million Stage 2 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital Redevelopment has reached its highest point.
Health Infrastructure's project team joined Northern Sydney Local Health District, hospital staff, Watpac and NSW Government representatives to celebrate the occasion with a ‘topping out' ceremony.
Marking the event a local angophora tree was craned to the top of the centrepiece of the redevelopment, a new six-storey Clinical Services Building (CSB).
The Stage 2 redevelopment includes a refurbished and expanded Emergency Department and the new CSB. The CSB will include:
- combined Intensive Care and High Dependency Unit
- combined Respiratory/Cardiac and Coronary Care beds collocated with a Cardiac Investigations Unit
- outpatient services
- medical imaging
- Paediatrics Medical Assessment Unit
- Transit Unit
- inpatient Units (including general medicine, stroke and dementia/delirium beds)
- collocated education space with the University of Sydney
- retail space
Due for completion in 2021, Stage 2 follows on from the $121 million Stage 1, which delivered the new STAR (surgical, theatres, anaesthetics and recovery) building, as well as the new $19.8 million six-storey car park offering over 500 spaces.
The additional $65 million, announced by the NSW Government in March 2019 will allow for:
- fit-out of two rehabilitation inpatient units
- refurbishment and increased capacity of the Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre
- expansion of outpatient services, including chemotherapy, renal dialysis and oral health services
- consolidation of community health services into a modern, integrated centre
- helipad.