Design Features
Main Entrances |
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There are separate entrances to the Private Hospital and Medical Centre, each providing easy access to stairs and lifts to upper levels.
The Medical Centre wing is linked to the hospital to facilitate interaction between individual specialists as required for patient care, as well as to provide effective support to hospital services.
The hospital entrance area is a generous double height space flowing into a comfortable waiting area, reception and adjacent open coffee shop. Far removed from the typical image of a hospital, it presents a light, airy and elegant look, with the feel and finishes of a modern hotel.
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Operating Rooms |
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Norwest Private Hospital boasts the latest designed operating theatres including the following equipment:
Lights & Pendants - Stryker
Scopes & Monitors – Stryker
Anaesthetic Machines – GE
Microscopes - Zeiss, ENT Micro
Olympus Endoscopes
Stryker Laproscopes
Cath Lab – Siemens
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The Theatre complex was developed and planned by the project Architects HPI (Health Projects International) in consultation with experienced surgeons, clinical staff and incorporates the latest "racetrack" design. Features includes:
Reception with interview rooms;
Male and female patient change rooms with toilets and lockers;
Perie-operative holding area with toilets and lockers;
Staff amenities/lounge and change rooms;
10 operating theatres with scrub area, anaesthetic bays and cleanup rooms;
Dirty utility room and disposal room;
Anaestethic storeroom, fluid/non-sterile storerooms, perfusion storeroom and mobile equipment bay;
Biomedical workshop;
1st stage recovery with 20 recovery spaces, nurses station, drug store, cleaners room and 2 patient assist toilets;
2nd stage recovery with 20 recovery spaces and staff station with beverages area;
and Central sterilizing department (CSD) consisting of loan store, non-sterilize store, dispatch room, office, wash/disinfecting area, packing/storing area and sterile store/setup area
The current configuration of 10 Theatres is:
3 x Fully Integrated
2 x Basic Integrated
5 General Theatres |
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Operating Room |
Size m2 |
Operating Room 1 |
44 |
Operating Room 2 |
44 |
Operating Room 3 |
45 |
Operating Room 4 |
45 |
Operating Room 5 |
53 |
Operating Room 6 |
52 |
Operating Room 7 |
47 |
Operating Room 8 |
45 |
Operating Room 9 |
52 |
Operating Room 10 |
48 |
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Perioperative / Recovery |
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The operating suite includes a 10 bed perioperative facility back to back with a 20 bed first stage recovery. Second stage recovery includes a minimum of 20 places. Perioperative bays have been designed as private cubicles. |
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Education |
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Educational facilities for nursing staff and doctors have been provided by way of large meeting rooms, a lecture room and numerous smaller meeting rooms throughout the hospital. Antenatal educational facilities have been provided in conjunction with the Birthing Unit on Level 2.
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Accident and Emergency Service |
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This facility is one a very few private Accident and Emergency Services in NSW. The Service will be drawing patients to the hospital in an area not well served by easily accessible emergency medical facilities. A dedicated ambulance bay leads directly to a resuscitation bay.
Treatment spaces within the facility are observed from a central staff station located back to back with the triage desk for the best possible communication between staff. The Service is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is staffed by experienced senior emergency physicians and nurses.
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Compliance |
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The clinical areas of the facility have been designed by HPI in accordance with the latest Australasian Health Facility Guidelines.
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Interior Design and Finishes
The Specialist Medical Centre is a three storey building with a high quality entrance and direct corridor access to the adjacent hospital, ground level specialist suites and retail tenancies, as well as a passenger and bed lift to upper levels. The three level building is linked to the private hospital building by a connecting bridge on levels 1 and 2.
The suites have a Development Approval for medical use only, further ensuring the building will continue as a medical hub. Currently available suites vary in size from 106m2 to 275m2, but adjacent suites can be merged if required. All suites are provided as a cold shell to allow the specialist tenant to design a fitout that will meet the specific needs of the practice.
The Private Hospital interior has been designed as 4 distinct zones:
Front of House |
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The entrance foyer, waiting area and public spaces - hotel like, welcoming, bright and generous. |
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Back of House |
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The service areas - robust, well protected and designed for easy maintenance. |
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Clinical areas |
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ICU, CCU, HDU, Cardiac Catheter Suite and the Operating Suite have been designed for maximum hygiene and efficiency whilst providing a calming environment for the patients and staff. The hospital also includes a Private Accident and Emergency Department.
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Residential areas |
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The wards are a combination of a home and hotel-like environment with clinical aspects of the design discreetly hidden but always present.
The current ward bed configuration is as follows
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Bed Configuration
Level |
Area |
Beds |
Ground Floor |
Accident & Emergency EMU |
5 |
Level 1 |
Cardiac Ward |
20 |
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Intensive Care Unit |
9 |
Level 2 |
Maternity Ward |
37 |
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Special Care Nursery |
7 |
Level 3 |
Inpatient Unit Surgical
(27) Paediatrics (6) |
33 |
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Inpatient Unit 2 Orthopaedics |
33 |
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Inpatient Unit Medical |
27 |
TOTAL |
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171 |
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