Better care for women and children through Centenary Hospital expansion


Released 01/06/2017

The 2017 Budget will invest in expanding the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children to provide better health services for women and young people.

Minster for Health Meegan Fitzharris said the expansion would deliver another of the Government’s election promises, and meet the growing needs of the community and its demand for maternity services. The hospital would expand physically and also in its capacity to deliver health services for Canberrans.

“This investment means even better care for our women and children,” Minister Fitzharris said.

“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.

“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.”

The expansion takes in almost $70 million of investment over four years which will provide for design and construction of new services at Centenary Hospital. The work in 2017-18 will also inform the development of new and expanded services over the next four years.

“As our city continues to grow, this funding will expand Centenary Hospital’s high level, state of the art maternity services,” Minister Fitzharris said.

“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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Meegan Fitzharris, MLA | Media Releases


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