Project overview
Kensington St, Kogarah NSW 2217
Health Infrastructure in partnership with South Eastern Sydney Local Health District is building a new Integrated Ambulatory Care Precinct at St George Hospital.
The NSW Government is investing $385 million in the St George Hospital - Stage 3 Redevelopment (the Redevelopment) and $26 million for car parking.
This stage in the Redevelopment co-locates and integrates services to meet the growing needs of the local aging and diverse communities of St George and Sutherland.
The new building, known as The Kensington Street Building, will bring together a range of day-only, ambulatory and outpatients services that are currently being delivered from different locations around the hospital campus.
Stage 3 of the Redevelopment will complement the previously completed Emergency Department, eight-level Acute Services Building and upgraded Birth Unit and Operating Theatre redevelopments.
News and updates
Redevelopment reaches highest point
The $411 million St George Hospital Redevelopment Stage 3 has topped off a year of major construction with the new 9-storey Kensington Street Building celebrating new heights.
Sod turn marks start of construction for Redevelopment
Premier Chris Minns and Minister for Health and Minister for Regional Health, Ryan Park, joined local health workers to turn the first sod and mark the start of construction for Stage 3 St George Hospital Redevelopment.
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New designs unveiled for St George Hospital Redevelopment
Community feedback helped shape the latest designs for the new state-of-the-art Ambulatory Care Building at St George Hospital redevelopment, unveiled today.
Project information
Benefits
The project will:
- Enable the co-location and centralisation of services.
- Improve clinical integration and care coordination to help patients achieve better health outcomes
- Offer future-focused facilities to support best practice models of care.
- Provide patients, families and carers with a first-class facility to meet the health needs of the community now, and into the future.
Scope
The project includes:
- outpatient, ambulatory and integrated care services
- pathology specimen collection
- new day rehabilitation unit
- increased sub-acute and rehabilitation inpatient beds
- sub-acute aged care unit
- Behavioural Support Unit
- Rehabilitation Cognitive Transition Unit (RCTU)
- refurbishment of the palliative care space
- surgical services with refurbished operating theatres
- enhanced diagnostic imaging (medical imaging and nuclear medicine)
- new Clinical Skills Centre
- co-located basement car parking
- landscaped forecourt and open space
- refurbishment of some existing clinical spaces.
Learn more about the project's status updates on the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District website.
In early 2021, planning commenced on a new Ambulatory Care Precinct to meet the growing needs of the St George and Sutherland community to 2032.
Preparations for the Stage 3 building began in January 2022, and includes:
- demolition of the existing Prince Williams Wing
- construction and operation of a new nine-storey integrated Ambulatory Care Building
- refurbishment of existing services
- basement parking for 151 vehicles
- pick-up and drop-off bays along Kensington Street
- completion of a forecourt and its landscaping
- public domain works.
Construction of Stage 3 of the St George Hospital Redevelopment is expected to be completed in late 2026.
Renaming to Kensington Street Building
In 2019, the funding announcement labelled the building an 'Ambulatory Care Precinct,' leading to the adoption of 'Ambulatory Care Building' (ACB).
The similarity with the existing Acute Services Building (ASB) posed wayfinding issues due to mixed services. After extensive consultation involving consumers, staff, and clinical leadership, the recommendation to rename the building gained support from SESLHD Executive, Board, and Ministry of Health.
The Minister for Health approved the formal request to rename the eight-story building as 'Kensington Street Building' (KSB) in January 2024.
Concept design
The concept designs for the new KSB were released in March 2022. The designs were a result of extensive planning and consultation undertaken with staff and the local community.
The designs showed how the new building integrates into the existing hospital campus and will integrate a range of clinical department to improve access and the operation of outpatient services, including:
- physical rehabilitation
- medical imaging tests
- blood transfusions and biopsies.
Refined designs
Community feedback helped shape and refine the latest designs for the new state-of-the-art Kensington Street Building.
The latest designs were refined following over 300 meetings with the community, clinicians, hospital staff and consumers.
The new designs showcase a new building and a public forecourt area which will become the new main entrance to the hospital. It also highlights the building's façade, greenery, landscaping and integration with the existing hospital campus.
Project timeline
Building a hospital involves 3 key phases - planning, design and delivery.
Planning
| Late 2020 | Project announced |
| Early 2021 | Planning commences |
| January 2022 | Preparations for Stage 3 building begins |
Design
| March 2022 | Concept designs released |
| August 2022 | Refined concept designs released |
| Late 2023 | Detailed design completed |
| March 2024 | Design phase complete. |
Delivery
| March 2021 | Refurbishment works commenced |
| Early 2022 | Early works commenced |
| Early 2023 | Main works commenced |
| 2025 | Main works expected to be completed |
| 2026 | Refurbishment and landscaping expected to be completed |
Community engagement
Community input into the delivery of St George Hospital Redevelopment - Stage 3 is essential in creating a welcoming facility that meets the health needs of the community well into the future.
We will continue to provide opportunities for the community to have a say as the project progresses.
Community members can email the project team at SESLHD-StGeorgeHospital-Stage3@health.nsw.gov.au
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Contact our project team
For more information about the St George Hospital Redevelopment - Stage 3, email the project team at SESLHD-StGeorgeHospital-Stage3@health.nsw.gov.au