Hospital redevelopment advances
Rapid start: Gippsland Southern Health Services maintenance manager Mark Withers, social work co-ordinator Kim Bolding and CEO Gary Templeton stand in front of one of the new portable buildings which will be used while the new hospital is being built.
THE first portable building arrived at Leongatha Memorial Hospital last Thursday on the back of four trucks and was successfully put together by midday Friday.
Gippsland Southern Health Service CEO Gary Templeton said it was one more sign of the hospital redevelopment moving ahead rapidly.
“We are expecting another portable next week as well,” he said.
The first portable is mainly for staff services such as offices and desks, and a room to have
meetings.
“It will be fully operational in three weeks,” Mr Templeton said.
The second portable will hopefully arrive on Thursday and will be for allied, community and education services.
It will have some client based activities to do with social work and counselling.
The construction of the new hospital will cost $32 million and will include 25 multiday acute beds, two beds for palliative care, a dedicated emergency and urgent care facility, operating theatre and procedure room, pathology, obstetric procedures suite, maternity rooms enabling families to stay, water therapy in each birthing room, internal courtyard and cafe.
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