In brief:

• Canberra Hospital’s Critical Services Building opened one year ago.
• The new facility is delivering improved health care for Canberrans.
• The building design caters to both patient and staff needs

Canberra Hospital’s Critical Services Building officially opened one year ago.

With its world-class emergency, surgical and intensive care, it is helping transform health care in the ACT.

What’s been delivered

In the past year, the facility has seen:

• over 100,000 patients treated in the new Emergency Department
• nearly 19,000 procedures carried out in theatres and interventional suites
• over 6,500 patients transferred to the Intensive Care Unit.

Building features

The building brings together many of the hospital’s most critical clinical areas. This supports more integrated and timely care.

Its modern emergency, surgical and critical care spaces are enhancing the experience for patients and families.

The building's design is also focused on the needs of healthcare workers. Improved layouts, natural light, collaborative spaces and new amenities are improving staff experience.

The building includes:

• a larger Emergency Department (ED) with a new children’s ED, separate ambulance entry and a Behavioural Assessment Unit
• a 48-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with capacity to expand
• 22 operating theatres, including three hybrid theatres and two interventional radiography suites
• three state-of-the-art cardiac catheterisation labs
• new medical imaging facilities
• a rooftop helipad with direct lift access to the ICU and ED
• a new Central Sterilising Services Department
• fully electric infrastructure.

Learn more about how the building is creating a better-connected, more person-centred Canberra Hospital on the Canberra Health Services website.

Find out more about the ACT Government’s health projects on the Built for CBR website.

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