Forward Works
Friday 11 November
2011
Forward works near completion at South West health
campus
Preliminary construction activities,
known as ‘forward works’, are underway at the South West
Health Campus and are on schedule for completion by 15 December
2011.
St John of God Hospital Bunbury Chief Executive
Officer, Mark Grime, said three months of major preliminary work to
realign the internal road and construct underground
infrastructure had cleared the way for the next stage of
building works to commence in January 2012.
"The entire South West community can celebrate
the completion of the last three months work – work that keeps the
project on schedule to open a new Coronary Care Unit, Cancer Centre
and expansion of the Bunbury Hospital Emergency Department by
November 2012.
"Once complete, the new Coronary Care Unit will
complement Bunbury Hospital’s expanded Emergency Department and
Intensive Care Unit, while the Cancer Centre will complement the
recently opened Genesis Cancer Care Centre," Mr
Grime said.
"We are closer to starting on new buildings
which will contain technology and facilities to give local and
much-needed health services to all people living in the South West
region for many generations to come," he said.
Project funding has come from the contributions
of St John of God Health Care ($4.52 million), the Commonwealth
Government’s Health and Hospital Fund ($25.92 million) and the
State Government’s Royalties for Regions Program ($5 million).
"The entire redevelopment is a great example of
a private-public partnership working toward meeting the South West
region’s health care needs today and into the future," Mr Grime
said.
"What we are really talking about is avoiding a
duplication of services and providing specialist health services
closer to home for people living in the South West."
Weekly redevelopment progress is added to the St
John of God Bunbury Hospital website at http://www.sjog.org.au/hospitals/bunbury/redevelopment.