Snapshot

    Core service delivered: Health. 229 bed community hospital.

   Government department: Department of Human Services.

    Consortium: Progress Health Consortium (ABN Amro - sponsor, Multiplex Constructions - builder, Silver Thomas Hanley, Daryl Jackson -architects and Multiplex Asset management - facilities manager).

    Contract period: 25 years.

The $120 million project was designed to build a 229 bed community hospital. The project, which reached financial close in October 2002, was secured by the Progress Health Consortium (comprising ABN Amro, Multiplex Constructions, Multiplex Asset Management, Silver Thomas Hanley, Daryl Jackson and Blake Dawson Waldron) to design, construct and maintain the hospital building. The contract is for 25 years, after which ownership is transferred to the State of Victoria. The hospital was opened by the Premier of Victoria on 18 September 2004.

All the building related facilities maintenance was undertaken by the private sector, but the public sector continued to provide soft services, such as clinical services. The hospital is capable of delivering services to 30,000 patients and 25,000 emergency cases per annum.

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