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Hospital expansion focuses on women and children

AS part of the 2017 Budget, the ACT government will invest almost $70 million into expanding the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children to provide better health services for women and young people. 

Meegan Fitzharris.

Minster for Health Meegan Fitzharris says this investment means even better care for Canberra women and children

The expansion will take over four years, which will provide for design and construction of new services at Centenary Hospital.

“We will deliver more maternity beds, more paediatric high-dependency unit beds and introduce new services, including a new paediatric intensive care treatment space, an adolescent gynaecology service, and child and adolescent sleep labs,” she says.

“One of the key areas of the expansion will deliver an adolescent mental health unit to provide specialist acute mental health care to young people and their families within a dedicated in-patient treatment space.

“This initiative demonstrates the government’s commitment to expanding in-patient mental health services for vulnerable young people in our region, significantly benefitting health outcomes for these individuals.

“It will provide more birthing facilities for women during their pregnancy, birth and into the postnatal period.” 

Upgrades and modifications to existing facilities will begin in 2018-19 and construction of the expansion of Centenary Hospital will commence during the current term of government, with completion due in 2020-21.

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