Premier Chris Minns has confirmed that $700million has been earmarked by the model new Labor Government to build 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 office confirmed it will be going ahead with the pre-election promise to more than double the Coalition Government’s commitment to well being within the North-West.

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

The new hospital web site is located at the corner of Commercial Road and Windsor Road, opposite The Fiddler hotel.

New Health Minister Ryan Park told the Hills to Hawkesbury Community News this week that Rouse Hill Hospital will deliver comprehensive healthcare services to this rising inhabitants, especially to young families.

Rouse Hill Hospital Image $700M Rouse Hill Hospital Vow The growth of Rouse Hill Hospital will embody:

• An Emergency Department together with pressing care centre and emergency medicine

• Comprehensive maternity services and women’s well being services

• Day surgery unit

• Adult and pediatric brief keep unit

• Ambulatory and outpatients care including day chemotherapy and infusion, renal dialysis, mental health, and ante/post-natal care

• Comprehensive medical imaging companies

• Prehabilitation and rehabilitation providers

Mr Park said: “The Liberals promised this hospital for eight years without taking any action to see this much needed facility delivered. Labor is dedicated to delivering Rouse Hill Hospital.

“We will have extra to say on this venture as it progresses.”

Labor’s pre-election promise was that: Any new hospitals built under Labor will move to a full campus mannequin, beginning with Rouse Hill which will have a childcare centre and healthcare worker housing, each on web site.

The pre-election promise also introduced $150 million to expand the capacity of Blacktown and Mt Druitt Hospitals – including an additional 60 beds and additional companies similar to chemotherapy, most cancers remedy, and dialysis.

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

TIMELINE

• The timeline for announcements about a hospital at Rouse Hill started in March 2015 when the then Premier Mike Baird stated his Government would set aside $300 million to construct a model new hospital at Rouse Hill if re-elected.

• Money was allotted In the 2017/18 Budget to undertake the planning of Rouse Hill Health Service.

• In the 2018/2019 Budget the Government allocated $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 launched.

• January 2023 the then Labor Opposition chief Chris Minns introduced a $700 million commitment to the new Rouse Hill Hospital with an Emergency Department ought to or not it’s re-elected.

• April 2023. The newly elected Premier Chris Minns and Health Minister Ryan Park confirmed the $700 million investment for the new Rouse Hill Hospital.