The Narrabri District Health Service Redevelopment was a partnership between the Federal and the State Government.
The redevelopment included new facilities for inpatient beds, emergency department, birthing suite and an operating theatre. A total of 34 beds, including 24 overnight acute beds, 4 overnight sub-acute beds and six day stay beds. The redevelopment co-located and integrated primary and community health services, including additional consultation/treatment rooms.
The project also included:
• an Ambulance Station
• 2 GP/Visiting Specialist consultation rooms, as well as a procedure room
• A dedicated mental health safe room in the emergency department
• 2 special care rooms for use by palliative care patients, and a negative pressure room for the treatment of infectious patients
• A radiology department including a CT Scanner and X-Ray
• Staff accommodation, including two bedroom units, as well as a 4-bedroom house
• Pathology and blood bank services
• Landscaped garden areas for patients and an Aboriginal garden.When the hospital was completed, the local community was invited to walk through it before patients moved in. Local newspaper, The Narrabri Courier, reported that people were pleased with their new hospital
“They were impressed with big and spacious corridors and rooms and public areas, state of the art equipment and operating theatre, an attractive decor and all the trappings of a modern hospital,” the newspaper reported.
“The visitors were impressed. Many said they had no idea the facility was so large. They applauded the fact that it was on one level, and the evident care which has gone to the planning over several years, a process which has engaged every agency and medical services group likely to use the hospital.”
Planix Projects provided Project Directorship for this project.