OVERVIEW

A new 20-bed older persons’ (OPU) unit is being constructed as part of the Campbelltown Hospital Redevelopment Stage 2.

The unit is funded under the NSW Government’s $700 million Statewide Mental Health Infrastructure Program (SWMHIP) and addresses the increasing needs of Sydney South West’s ageing population.

It is centrally located within the hospital’s new Clinical Services Building and will:

• operate alongside the general acute mental health unit,
• promote consistent good practice in Older Persons Mental Health Services (OPMHS),
• support effective and appropriate care for older people with mental illness.

Designs for the unit are the result of extensive co-design and planning involving hospital staff, community and consumer groups and will be the first beds delivered under the SWMHIP.

• Better mental health, physical health and wellbeing outcomes for older mental health consumers
• Improved patient and carer satisfaction through delivery of patient centred and recovery-oriented care
• Increased access to appropriate care
• Enhanced capacity and improved efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of mental health services
• infrastructure that is co-designed by consumers, their family, carers and staff
• Improved patient and staff safety (workplace health and safety, seclusion incidents).

• patient consult rooms 
• office accommodation
• internal and external communal patient areas
• nurses’ stations that will be integrated into the communal spaces

• Concept design was early 2018
• Schematic design released late 2018
• Construction commenced late 2019
• Construction expected to be completed 2022