Port Macquarie Hospital Expansion

The Port Macquarie Hospital expansion had a capital budget of $104 million, with $8 million funded by the NSW Government and $96 million from the Australian Government's Health and Hospitals Fund. 

Scope

The project delivered: 

• new Emergency Department including 14 additional treatment bays and separate paediatric area
• eight bed emergency medical unit for short stay admissions
• six new theatre operating suites to replace the existing four theatres
• new interventional theatre
• two new procedure rooms
• thirty-four bed theatre recovery unit increased from the current eight
• a new cardiac catheterisation laboratory
• twenty-four new beds for the critical care ward
• ward with 30 new inpatient beds
• twelve additional surgical beds
• relocate existing 15-bed paediatric ward to the new building
• new central sterilising services department
• shell space for potential future expansion of pathology, imaging, pharmacy, renal dialysis unit, ambulatory care and outpatient clinics.

For more information, visit the Port Macquarie Base Hospital page.