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The new facility will be delivered on the Baillie Henderson campus, with stage one to be completed in 2029.
This includes 538 beds, an 84-bed acute mental health facility, a multi-storey car park and expanded clinical services
Overview
As more people are choosing to call Toowoomba and the Darling Downs home, our new Toowoomba Hospital will ensure every Queenslander has access to care, closer to where they live. The new Toowoomba Hospital will be the main referral hospital for the Darling Downs region and will provide a much-needed boost to bed capacity alongside emergency and specialised care.
The Hospital Rescue Plan will deliver:
At least 538 total overnight beds, including at least 118 new beds
All services and existing beds relocated to the new hospital
Services including a cardiac lab, more dialysis and a larger emergency department
Staged execution to keep project on track
A new, fully developed plan that meets Hospital and Health Service and clinical needs
A plan to implement electronic medical records
Better use of existing heritage listed buildings at the Baillie Henderson site
A multi-storey car park.
Key:
Delivered
Being delivered
The failed Capacity Expansion Program (CEP)
$680 million cost blowout
Delayed at least 6 months
Inadequate planning that ignored clinical advice
Missing a transit lounge, operating theatres, dialysis, geriatric rehab, birthing suites
Plan to operate across two separate hospital sites was not supported by clinicians and would have cost up to an extra $400 million per year
Did not budget for maintenance costs to make the old site safe and operational
No plan to deploy electronic medical records.
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