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$700M Rouse Hill Hospital Vow

Premier Chris Minns has confirmed that $700million has been earmarked by the model new Labor Government to construct a 300-bed Rouse Hill Public Hospital with an Emergency Department.

In a response to questions by the Hills to Hawkesbury Community News following the State Election end result, the Premier’s workplace confirmed it will be going forward with the pre-election promise to more than double the Coalition Government’s dedication to well being within the North-West.

The Coalition government had promised a $300 million Rouse Hill Hospital. The then Health Minister, Brad Hazzard, turned the primary sod on the event on March 2nd, weeks out from the State election which noticed a change in Government.

The new hospital website is situated on the corner of Commercial Road and Windsor Road, reverse The Fiddler resort.

New Health Minister Ryan Park told the Hills to Hawkesbury Community News this week that Rouse Hill Hospital will ship comprehensive healthcare companies to this growing population, particularly to younger families.

Rouse Hill Hospital Image $700M Rouse Hill Hospital Vow The growth of Rouse Hill Hospital will embrace:
• An Emergency Department together with pressing care centre and emergency medication
• Comprehensive maternity services and women’s well being services
• Day surgery unit
• Adult and pediatric quick stay unit
• Ambulatory and outpatients care including day chemotherapy and infusion, renal dialysis, mental health, and ante/post-natal care
• Comprehensive medical imaging providers
• Prehabilitation and rehabilitation providers

Mr Park stated: “The Liberals promised this hospital for eight years with out taking any motion to see this much needed facility delivered. Labor is committed to delivering Rouse Hill Hospital.

“We may have extra to say on this challenge as it progresses.”

Labor’s pre-election promise was that: Any new hospitals constructed beneath Labor will move to a full campus model, beginning with Rouse Hill which will have a childcare centre and healthcare employee housing, each on website.

The pre-election promise also announced $150 million to expand the capacity of Blacktown and Mt Druitt Hospitals – together with a further 60 beds and extra services corresponding to chemotherapy, cancer therapy, and dialysis.

The probably date for completion of Rouse Hill Hospital is late 2027 or early 2028.

TIMELINE
• The timeline for announcements a few hospital at Rouse Hill started in March 2015 when the then Premier Mike Baird stated his Government would put aside $300 million to construct a new hospital at Rouse Hill if re-elected.
• Money was allocated In the 2017/18 Budget to undertake the planning of Rouse Hill Health Service.
• In the 2018/2019 Budget the Government allotted $75 million for land acquisition for the new hospital.
• In March 2021 The Government confirmed a site on the north-eastern aspect of Windsor Rd for the hospital.
• In November 2022 a Master plan for a $300million Rouse Hill Hospital was released.
• January 2023 the then Labor Opposition leader Chris Minns announced a $700 million commitment to the new Rouse Hill Hospital with an Emergency Department should it's re-elected.
• April 2023. The newly elected Premier Chris Minns and Health Minister Ryan Park confirmed the $700 million funding for the brand new Rouse Hill Hospital.




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