Australia has two pioneering hospital projects nearing completion – the Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland, and the Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth. Both of these demonstrate how a patient-centred philosophy can be applied to large-scale healthcare developments.
Kieren Morgan, a Principal at Hassell, the architectural firm on both schemes, describes the key considerations and objectives that informed the firm’s design of the Fiona Stanley Hospital, and the project team’s determination that it should be one of the world’s most advanced medical facilities.
Queensland is undergoing a period of massive transformation, and unprecedented population growth is putting increasing pressure on the State’s public health system. The AU$1.7 billion Gold Coast University Hospital in Southport is central to the Health Capital Works Program launched by the Queensland Government. The design is a collaboration between Hassell, Powell Dods Thorpe, and Silver Thomas Hanley, who have been working with Queensland Health to determine the site suitability and strategic plan for the new hospital since 2006. Due to open late in 2012, this 750-bed referral hospital will become one of the largest tertiary hospitals in Australia. It is the largest hospital development ever undertaken in the State, and will provide a higher level, and greater range of, complex care, to patients.
A ‘burgeoning population’
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