Four-bed room in an inpatient unit within the new Critical Services Building (Building 5).
12 August 2024
In brief:
- Canberra Hospital’s new Critical Services Building (Building 5) opened on Saturday, 17 August 2024.
- This includes the new Emergency Department (ED).
- If you need to attend the ED, please go straight to Building 5.
Canberra Hospital’s new Critical Services Building opened on Saturday, 17 August 2024. It is called Building 5.
Many of the critical care services located across the hospital can now be found in Building 5.
Services that have moved to Building 5
Building 5 now houses:
- the main entry and reception
- the emergency department
- operating theatres and day of surgery admission
- the Sterilising Services Unit
- the intensive care unit
- cardiac catheterisation laboratories
- several inpatient wards, including Acute Cardiac Care Unit, Acute Medical Unit, Emergency General Surgery and Trauma, Neurosurgery and Oral Maxillofacial and Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
- medical imaging
- the helideck.
The new Emergency Department
The new Emergency Department (ED) in Building 5 opened on Saturday, 17 August.
The ED in Building 12 has now closed.
If you need to go to the ED
If you need to attend the ED, please go straight to Building 5.
There is a separate entrance to the ED on the southern side of Hospital Road, off Bateson Road.
You can also drop off and pick up at the entrance.
The closest parking is in the southern multi-storey car park on Bateson Road. This is less than 300m away.
Signs across the hospital will help you find you way around.
Operating theatres and other services
Perioperative services, including operating theatres, have begun in Building 5.
This includes both emergency and elective procedures.
The move to Building 5
The move into the new building took place in one day.
This included relocating around 160 patients in several inpatient wards.
Staff will also move over 3,000 items to the new building – from IV poles to wheelchairs.
Around 3,000 staff have received training to work in the new building.
Find more information on Building 5 at the Canberra Health Services website.
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