Ahead of Queensland Healthcare Week 2018 and the Health Facilities Design and Development Summit 2018 we chat to Jim Reid, Acting Executive Director, Bendigo Hospital. In this article Jim chats to us about the two phase hospital project and explores the structural and technological capabilities ensuring the facility is fit for purpose well into the future. Jim further delves into the importance of stakeholder engagement and a motivated and engaged workforce. 

Metro North’s new $340 Million specialist public health facility – the 182-bed Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) – is being developed for Metro North as part of the $1.1 Billion redevelopment of Herston Quarter. Expected to open in 2021, it will provide a range of specialist surgical and complex rehabilitation services in a patient-centric model of care.

In this video presentation with Debbie McNamara General Manager, STARS,  Metro North Hospital and Health Service, learn how to:

• Use an innovative public-private-partnership model to deliver public health infrastructure that meets future healthcare needs
• Design for an efficient and effective public health model by optimising models of care and facility design
• Get operationally ready in terms of people, systems, and processes in place for the commissioning of and transition into a new build