Goulburn Hospital and Health Service Redevelopment

Goulburn Hospital and Health Service Redevelopment delivered modern facilities to improve healthcare for the region, meeting the community’s current and future needs.

Last updated: 31 March 2025

Goulburn Hospital
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  • Health Infrastructure
Aboriginal Country
Ngunnawal and Gundungarra
Project Manager
RP Infrastructure
Architect
Silver Thomas HaDonnelly Constructionnley
Builder
Donnelly Construction
Local Health Districts
Southern NSW

Project overview

130 Goldsmith St, Goulburn NSW 2580

Status: Completed

The $165 million NSW Government project delivered a modern, fit-for-purpose facility to support high-quality healthcare for the Goulburn community.

In 2019, enabling works were completed, including a new Community Mental Health building and Key Health Worker Accommodation.

In 2021, a new 4-storey Clinical Services Building opened on the hospital campus. It included purpose-built clinical spaces such as a new Emergency Department, Medical Imaging Department, Intensive Care Unit, Perioperative Units, Inpatient Units, a Maternal and Newborn Unit, and carparks.

The new main entry, carpark and Springfield Place – Heritage Exhibition space opened in December 2022, marking the completion of the main works.

Final works included renovating and refurbishing parts of the original hospital, transferring services into new spaces, and completing landscaping. These were completed in June 2024.

News and updates

Construction complete at Goulburn Hospital Redevelopment

The NSW Government is pleased to announce that the $165 million Goulburn Hospital and Health Service redevelopment is now complete, providing improved healthcare for communities across the Goulburn region.

Read more about the milestone

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Local Aboriginal culture celebrated in new artwork

A new artwork celebrating the rich Aboriginal culture of the Goulburn-Mulwaree region has been unveiled as part of the Goulburn Hospital and Health Service Redevelopment.

Read more about the artwork

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Project information

The Goulburn Hospital Redevelopment delivered a fit-for-purpose facility to improve healthcare for the Goulburn region, meeting the current and future needs of the local community.

Benefits

The project:

  • Brought health services together to improve access to care.
  • Helped attract and keep high-quality staff by creating a workplace that supports excellence in clinical practice.
  • Delivered economic and social benefits for Goulburn and surrounding communities through jobs, skills development, and local spending—during construction and ongoing operations.

Scope

The project included:

A new 4-storey Clinical Services Building with:

  • a main entry and hospital reception
  • an Emergency Department
  • a Medical Imaging Department
  • an Intensive Care Unit
  • operating theatres, day surgery and recovery areas
  • inpatient units for medical, surgical, paediatric, rehabilitation and geriatric care, including designated palliative care beds
  • a Maternity Unit and birthing suite, plus ambulatory paediatric and antenatal clinics
  • improved on-site car parking
  • an extension to the Community Health Building for Community Mental Health services.

Final works delivered:

  • ambulatory outpatient services, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, Hospital in the Home, wound clinics, stress testing and audiometry
  • oncology services
  • Aboriginal health services
  • a Transitional Living Unit (delivered by the Local Health District)
  • a new MRI service
  • upgraded parking on Albert Street to support renal, oncology and outpatient services
  • staff workspaces
  • a new Clinical Training Facility for The Australian National University, funded by the Australian Government and delivered as part of the hospital redevelopment.

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Construction completed on Goulburn Hospital and Health Service Redevelopment

The $165 million Goulburn Hospital and Health Service redevelopment is complete, marking a new era of healthcare for...

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Construction completed on Goulburn Hospital and Health Service Redevelopment

The $165 million Goulburn Hospital and Health Service redevelopment is complete, marking a new era of healthcare for communities across the Goulburn region.

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Construction completed on Goulburn Hospital and Health Service Redevelopment

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Margaret Bennett, OAM, Chief of Southern NSW LHD
 
The completion of the Goulburn Hospital and Health Service Redevelopment is truly a momentous occasion in the history of health care in this community.
 
Matt Malone, Senior Project Director, Health Infrastructure
 
The hospital is the heart of a community and for a community like Goulburn, it's the start of life, it's the end of life. It's a lot of significant events in between that it certainly does feel like we're delivering a new community for Goulburn.
 
The most rewarding part about this project has been the team environment and the collaboration between stakeholders across all aspects of the redevelopment. It started with the Clinical Services building, which was completed in late 2021 and that's then continued into the final works package, which has been delivered over the course of the last 18 months.
 
Kerry Hort, Project Lead, Southern NSW LHD
 
You've got architects and we've got builders, we've got project managers, we've got consultants and subcontractors and numerous people with various skills all coming together to build this fabulous hospital for Goulburn. 
 
We selected a random selection of patients, which we worked with from very early on and um they became our patient and consumer group. That group became invaluable in the little things that we're important to them that they really, really wanted us to make sure we're included in this new hospital/ Things like a day bed, so that you know, if they needed to sleep over at night that there was somewhere to lay down. Make sure there's somewhere to park my wheelchair, um so that when if I'm in a waiting room that there's somewhere for me to sit and I don't have to go outside. That the chairs will take the right weight in the corridor, you know, if I need to stop the chair will actually take my weight.
 
We have an ICU that can care for patients close to the home. In the past if you needed ventilation and things like that within 24 hours we would have had to send you on to somewhere else. Without really highly functioning ICU you can't do all the other things that you need in surgery and other parts of the hospital without that in place, so I think that's been probably one of the big achievements from my perspective.
 
Stefan Hese, Senior Physiotherapist and Redevelopment Group Leader
 
The main improvements that we've seen in the new hospital compared to where we came from, definitely the space and the access to equipment and resources. Where we came from, you know, the spaces were much smaller and we had difficulty moving the patients around their rooms and in the corridor.
 
Nirvangi Nand, Registered Nurse, Medical Ward
 
The patients, almost every day tell me how nice this hospital is and how grateful they are to be here, and it gives me a sense of pride as well to be able to look after them in this new space, new building.
 
Margaret Bennett, OAM, Chief of Southern NSW LHD
 
This Redevelopment has provided our health care team here in Goulburn with an amazing facility that will allow them to continue to provide the highest quality of care for the community we are privileged to serve now and into the future.
 
Matt Malone, Senior Project Director, Health Infrastructure
 
Looking back over the last 10 years, the biggest achievements on this project have been the collaboration with staff and community to design and deliver such a significant facility. Then during delivery the challenges with working on a construction site on a hospital during the COVID pandemic. Getting materials into the country was a significant challenge uh there was also getting workers to the construction site during periods of lockdown. It was a significant effort and a testament to the entire team.
 
Kerry Hort, Project Lead, Southern NSW LHD
 
We involved the Aboriginal Community as well in the development of the hospital and particularly in the art, we wanted to make sure that it was an environment that they felt comfortable in. When we first started with Arts and Heritage working group, our little motto was remember the past as we move to the future.
 
We ended up with a fabulous group of volunteers working on all the historical items from Goulburn and from Bourke Street and all of those were then used to put into the lovely display that you now see in Springfield Place. That space is beautiful.
 
Margaret Bennett, OAM, Chief of Southern NSW LHD
 
I's the most significant upgrade the Goulburn hospital has seen in its remarkable 130 year history. As you look around the facility today, you will see a completely transformed hospital with bright well-lit rooms, state-of-the-art operating theaters and brand new equipment and technology.
 
Stefan Hese, Senior Physiotherapist and Redevelopment Group Leader
 
Someone that works here, you know we have access to the things that we need to do our job more effectively now and that helps us with providing better patient care. When I come to work now we feel that the space that we're in is more vibrant and welcoming, more inviting, and more friendly, and more social and and also more supportive for the patients too. We get a lot of that feedback from patients that it's just a nicer place to be.
 
Nirvangi Nand, Registered Nurse, Medical Ward
 
Every day the nurses show up here with a smile on their face and a good attitude which is nice to see it has brought us closer together as a team. When I started my nursing degree I definitely wasn't thinking that I'd be a part of anything like this. I certainly feel very privileged to be a part of that it's very satisfying.
 
Matt Malone, Senior Project Director, Health Infrastructure
 
To get to the end of a project like this and to be able to say with some pride that that we've delivered this through some very hard times over a long period of time as well and end up with a successful result that we've achieved it's been a privilege to be a part of this planning process and and see it evolve into what it's become what we achieved with our $65 million it's actually quite remarkable the end result is a hospital that does our community proud and we should be proud of that.
 
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Project documents

Download project documents including plans, designs and approvals.

Contact our project team

The Goulburn Hospital Redevelopment is complete. For more information about the project contact Health Infrastructure on 9978 5402 or email hi-info@health.nsw.gov.au

Location

130 Goldsmith St, Goulburn NSW 2580

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