Marking the completion of the penultimate chapter of Armidale Hospital’s $60 million redevelopment, Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall joined NSW Health representatives on a tour of the brand new intensive care and day surgery units on Friday.
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Located on floors one and two in the West Wing of the existing hospital, both units are now receiving patients.
I was thrilled to take the final tour of the last refurbished sections ... and look forward to a grand official opening early next year.
- Adam Marshall
“The new units look amazing and are more spacious, better designed for staff and can cater for more patients than the old clapped out areas they have replaced,” Mr Marshall said.
“These two fresh units link in directly to the new four-storey building on their corresponding floors, ensuring the redeveloped areas are physically linked in with the new build, benefiting patients and staff.”
Mr Marshall met with nursing staff who were excited about working in new purpose-designed spaces.
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“The staff are really excited about the new units, especially those who have been at the hospital for many years and had to work long hours in the old, cramped spaces,” he said.
He said with the ICU and Day Surgery units completed, only one more job remained before the full redevelopment of the Armidale Hospital was completed.
“Now the attention turns to the old emergency department, which will be transformed into a new mortuary in one half and the other will be the new home for the improved physio department,” Mr Marshall said.
“While it seems as though Armidale Hospital has been a construction site for years now, the project which includes the construction of a new four-level hospital building as well as major refurbishments and landscaping, has run pretty much on schedule.
Work began after funding was announced for the hospital in March 2015.