‘Shepparton Private Hospital’, January, 2016—PAGE 7
Celebrating a new era in health care BANKSIA WARD
Patients to have more single rooms Patients will benefit from the upcoming refurbishment to Shepparton Private Hospital’s Banksia Ward. The refurbishment is stage three in the hospital’s expansion and will see five four-bed rooms and nine single rooms completely remodelled. The 18 redesigned single rooms will each have an ensuite and provide space and privacy for patients and their guests. Similar to the new Kingfisher Ward rooms, Banksia’s new private rooms will be designed with modern fittings. Banksia Ward nursing unit manager Tony Neilly said while some people liked the four-bed rooms because of the ability to interact, most were looking forward to the refurbishment. “The facilities will be very good to offer patients,” he said. “The first thing patients ask for is a single room, so to be able to provide everyone with a single room will boost the hospital’s reputation for providing quality services.” Mr Neilly said four-bed rooms could be beneficial in terms of supervision so ward operations would change following the refurbishment. One four-bed room, the highdependency unit, will remain for patients needing extensive care. Patients are constantly under supervision in the high-dependency unit as a nurse is always present. The refurbishment will also see alterations made to the Banksia nurses’ base, providing a handover room and a new manager’s office. The news of the private single rooms has been met with praise from private patients who have witnessed stage one and two of the hospital expansion. During the refurbishment Banksia Ward will merge with Kingfisher Ward in the new modular buildings.
Shepparton Private Hospital staff members Rebecca Healy and Robyn Riddington in the Day Procedure Unit when it opened in 2013. Project overseer of the present redevelopment Erilyan was also involved in the delivery of the day surgery facility.
Business as usual during build Maintaining medical services in the middle of a construction site was a unique challenge for Shepparton Private Hospital staff and expansion project overseers Erilyan. During a staged timeline 36 modular units were manufactured off-site and craned into place to form the new 24-bed Kingfisher Ward and 12-bed rehabilitation unit.
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at Shepparton Private Hospital and took great pride in its ability to build in and around sensitive areas of an operating hospital. Mr Lewis said Erilyan was engaged early in the concept stage of the development and heeded input from the community in the design and surrounds of the new building.
“Following several open forums we came away with numerous ideas from the public which were incorporated into Erilyan director John Lewis said the the design such as the building’s overall project was staged to ensure maximum height, roof design, external colours, bed numbers remained available to meet landscaping and fencing,” Mr Lewis said. hospital demands, hence the on-site Natural light inside the building was an timeframe stretched to eight months. important architectural consideration and He said the firm had extensive was achieved by installing light wells and experience in the health-care sector; floor-to-ceiling windows. in 2013 Erilyan was involved in the delivery of the new day surgery centre
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A crane lowered modular units into place for the expansion project at Shepparton Private Hospital in October.
Mr Lewis said the co-ordination,
placement and bringing together of the finished product was assisted by Goulburn Valley tradespeople and businesses, many of them existing suppliers to Shepparton Private Hospital. “We have been fortunate to be working with a great team of tradespersons, many of them are incumbent trades to the hospital with vital knowledge of the existing services infrastructure,” Mr Lewis said. He said those tradespeople prepared the site for the modular buildings, provided in-ground services and connections as well as refurbishment works. Mr Lewis estimated about 25 workers were on-site daily during the build. Works to be completed include a carpark to accommodate 50 vehicles and landscaping.
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