St John of God Berwick Hospital on the move Do you suffer from pain, injury, illness or stress?
On Thursday January 18, St John of God Berwick Hospital will open its doors to patients for the first time at its new location on Kangan Drive in Berwick.
The date marks the end of a two-year construction process that has seen St John of God Berwick Hospital grow from an 82bed facility to a multi-storey state-of-the-art hospital which can now accommodate 202 patient beds.
Exponential growth of the building aside, the hospital is expanding its services also in order to meet the demand of the growing Casey-Cardinia communities and the Eastern Victoria region. Theatre capacity has doubled growing from four theatres at Gibb Street to eight at Kangan Drive. A new Critical Care Unit will open which will house the area’s first intensive care unit and a cardiac/high dependency service, along with the region’s first catheter laboratory. Rehabilitation services will also open next month.
“These services enable us to continue to provide a more comprehensive range of services to enable us to fulfil our commitment to serving the needs of our local communities,” said Lisa Norman, CEO for St John of God Berwick Hospital. “It’s about continuing to expand our services and build on the legacy that was started some 100-plus years ago when the first health care facility was opened on our Gibb Street hospital site in Berwick back in 1910.”
It’s a rich history in health care that St John of God Berwick Hospital is extremely proud of and transferring the memories and culture from the original site to the new location has been an important part of the hospital relocation process.
On January 18, the first patient will be transferred from Gibb Street at 8am, with the entire hospital expected to be relocated by mid-afternoon the same day. Planning for the move has been a meticulous process. No stone has been left unturned to ensure that patient safety remains paramount throughout the relocation procedure. Once the last patient has arrived at 75 Kangan Drive, the Gibb Street hospital location will close while it undergoes a redevelopment of its own. A rehabilitation hospital, to be known as the St John of God Langmore Centre, will open in its place in 2019.
If you’d like to keep up-to-date with the move and see how the moving team at St John of God Berwick Hospital is progressing, please check out Facebook and Instagram on the day. For more detailed patient information please visit www.sjog.org.au /berwickredevelopment or call the hospital on 8784 5000.
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