$700M Rouse Hill Hospital Vow
Premier Chris Minns has confirmed that $700million has been earmarked by the new Labor Government to build a 300-bed Rouse Hill Public Hospital with an Emergency Department.
In a response to questions by the Hills to Hawkesbury Community News following the State Election outcome, the Premier’s workplace confirmed it will be going forward with the pre-election promise to more than double the Coalition Government’s commitment to health in the North-West.
The Coalition authorities had promised a $300 million Rouse Hill Hospital. The then Health Minister, Brad Hazzard, turned the primary sod on the event on March 2nd, weeks out from the State election which saw a change in Government.
The new hospital website is positioned on the corner of Commercial Road and Windsor Road, reverse The Fiddler lodge.
New Health Minister Ryan Park told the Hills to Hawkesbury Community News this week that Rouse Hill Hospital will deliver complete healthcare providers to this rising population, especially to younger households.
Rouse Hill Hospital Image $700M Rouse Hill Hospital Vow The expansion of Rouse Hill Hospital will embrace:
• An Emergency Department together with urgent care centre and emergency medication
• Comprehensive maternity providers and women’s health providers
• Day surgery unit
• Adult and pediatric short stay unit
• Ambulatory and outpatients care together with day chemotherapy and infusion, renal dialysis, psychological health, and ante/post-natal care
• Comprehensive medical imaging services
• Prehabilitation and rehabilitation providers
Mr Park said: “The Liberals promised this hospital for eight years with out taking any motion to see this much needed facility delivered. Labor is dedicated to delivering Rouse Hill Hospital.
“We will have extra to say on this challenge because it progresses.”
Labor’s pre-election promise was that: Any new hospitals built underneath Labor will transfer to a full campus model, beginning with Rouse Hill which will have a childcare centre and healthcare worker housing, each on web site.
The pre-election promise also announced $150 million to increase the capability of Blacktown and Mt Druitt Hospitals – together with an extra 60 beds and additional services similar to chemotherapy, cancer therapy, and dialysis.
The likely date for completion of Rouse Hill Hospital is late 2027 or early 2028.
TIMELINE
• The timeline for bulletins about a hospital at Rouse Hill began in March 2015 when the then Premier Mike Baird stated his Government would put aside $300 million to build a brand new hospital at Rouse Hill if re-elected.
• Money was allocated In the 2017/18 Budget to undertake the planning of Rouse Hill Health Service.
• In the 2018/2019 Budget the Government allotted $75 million for land acquisition for the new hospital.
• In March 2021 The Government confirmed a website on the north-eastern side of Windsor Rd for the hospital.
• In November 2022 a Master plan for a $300million Rouse Hill Hospital was released.
• January 2023 the then Labor Opposition chief Chris Minns introduced a $700 million dedication to the model new Rouse Hill Hospital with an Emergency Department ought to it be re-elected.
• April 2023. The newly elected Premier Chris Minns and Health Minister Ryan Park confirmed the $700 million funding for the new Rouse Hill Hospital.