Caring for our environment

The hospital strongly supports environmental stewardship with the aim of reducing the environmental impact on our every day activities.  With this in mind the following environmental initiatives have been initiated.

A water recycling system has been installed that recycles water from the sterilisers in CSSD and collected in the 180,000 litre tank storage farm.  These tanks supply the boilers, cooling towers, heating hot water and chill water makeup and water to all toilets in the medical services building.

Two 25,000 litre concrete water tanks have also been installed underground in front of Bailey’s Mansion to capture harvested rain water from the front entry roof of the new building.

The new hospital building design features doubled glazed windows and sun shading, is fully sealed and insulated, high water efficient sanitary fixtures, sensor taps in key locations, high efficiency linear fluorescent lighting, movement sensor controlled lighting within patient ensuites and other key locations, light emitting diode (LED) lamps in wards and photo electric (PE) cell activated external lighting, and energy efficient air handling systems.