The new Bankstown-Lidcombe Emergency Department provides enhanced facilities to meet the growing and diverse needs of the Bankstown local government area and surrounds.
OVERVIEW
The Bankstown-Lidcombe Emergency Department represents an important boost to healthcare services in the Bankstown community. The redevelopment included a combination of new build and refurbishment of the existing Emergency Department to deliver contemporary facilities with improved patient care. The NSW Government invested $25 million to redevelop the Bankstown-Lidcombe Emergency Department.
BENEFITS
The project has provided:
- future-focused facilities to support best practice models of care
- a first-class facility to meet the health needs of the Bankstown community now and into the future.
SCOPE
The project includes:
- an increase in treatment spaces
- enhanced emergency care for the local community, in a safe, contemporary facility
- improved triage performance
- reduced hospital stays due to additional Emergency Department short stay unit capacity
- streaming of patients to the most appropriate environment of care to reflect their level of complexity
- best practice arrangements for mental health, paediatric and bariatric patients.
For more information, visit the
project website.