Works start on multimillion-dollar Adelaide hospital site
A new Adelaide hospital expansion will focus on cancer patients. See the plans.
Work has begun today on an $80 million Burnside Hospital Health Precinct, with Health Minister Blair Boyer and Burnside Hospital CEO Rebecca Badcock in Toorak Gardens today to mark the milestone.
The new hospital will expand the existing chemotherapy treatment services at Burnside, including installing a new “linear accelerator” machine that provides a specialised way to deliver radiation therapy by targeting tumours with X-rays or electrons from outside the body.
“This represents a significant new piece of health infrastructure for South Australia that will meet the needs of patients in key areas of care, particularly in comprehensive cancer services and day surgery capacity,” Health Minister Blair Boyer said.
“This project will also ensure more residents in Adelaide’s east can get the care they need closer to home.”
The new build will have two new operating theatres that can cater for around 3500 additional patient procedures per year when fully functional and would bring the total operating theatres in the hospital to seven.
Medical specialists working in the current hospital will move into larger rooms in the new building, which also includes a fertility service.
There will be three levels of underground parking, with about 150 car spaces, and about 250 jobs will be supported throughout the project’s construction.
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“As a proud not-for-profit hospital, this is about working in partnership to invest in our facilities and our people to ensure we can stay strong and provide the healthcare future our community needs and deserves,” Burnside Hospital CEO Rebecca Badcock said.
“Our new health precinct will help underpin the long-term viability of Burnside Hospital, giving us the scale to survive what is an increasingly challenging environment for smaller hospitals.
“Now the work really starts so that we can deliver more comprehensive cancer services, more day surgery capacity and more medical services to our community.”
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