Project overview

The NSW, Victorian and Australian governments have committed $558 million to the Albury Wodonga Regional Hospital project, one of the largest regional health projects currently underway in NSW and Victoria.

The new Albury Wodonga Regional Hospital will provide enhanced and expanded healthcare services in contemporary facilities to support Albury, Wodonga and Border communities now and into the future.

The project will support the region's growing population, provide contemporary models of care and better connectivity across the Albury Hospital Campus.

The concept design for the new Albury Wodonga Regional Hospital project has been released, and shows three new buildings on the Albury Campus:

• The 7-storey Clinical Services Building
• The 2-storey Northeast Building
• More car parking

Consultation so far

To date, more than 2,500 people have contributed valuable feedback on the $558 million redevelopment of the Albury Wodonga Regional Hospital.

Input from key stakeholders, including staff and clinicians from Albury Wodonga Health, NSW and Victorian government agencies, the local Aboriginal community, a dedicated Project Community Advisory Group, and the wider Border community, will inform the next stage of the project: schematic design. This phase will focus on enhancing the hospital experience for patients, visitors, and staff.

The design has already responded to feedback by prioritising the needs of a growing population, incorporating contemporary models of care, improving access across the Albury campus, and ensuring stronger connections to outdoor spaces to support wellbeing.

Ongoing consultation with a broad range of stakeholders and the community is essential to the planning, design, and delivery of the hospital. This engagement will continue throughout the life of the project. The project team remains committed to keeping health service staff, stakeholders, and the community informed with accurate and timely updates. The project website will be updated regularly, and additional information will be shared via newsletters and direct communication.

Benefits

When finished the new hospital will:

• deliver a mix of new and refurbished facilities
• consolidate complex care hospital services on the Albury Campus
• create a regional health hub with the investment of health services already on site and the additional 7-storey Clinical Services Building
• improve safety for patients
• reduce the duplication of services
• reduce the need for urgent travel between Wodonga and Albury Campuses
• attract skilled and specialised medical, nursing, allied health and support staff
• retain existing high value health assets, including the recently completed Emergency Department expansion
• enable further growth in sub-acute, day surgical and ambulatory care at Wodonga Hospital Campus by relocating existing inpatient maternity, birthing, neonatal care and day medical services to Albury Campus.

Scope

The project will deliver a mix of new and refurbished facilities and is expected to include:

• More than 80 additional new beds for medical and surgical inpatients across 3 new inpatient units with 60% per cent single rooms and remainder in double rooms
• New and enhanced Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
• Enhanced Maternity and birthing services including a special care nursery
• 32 bed Mental health inpatient unit to replace and expand the existing Nolan House current 24-bed service
• New surgical and operating theatres, including a hybrid theatre plus procedure room
• New Cardiac Catheter Lab
• New Central sterile supply department adjustment to theatres
• Expanded ambulatory care, cardiac diagnostics and allied health therapies
• New hospital main entrance and public drop-off zone from Keene Street Aboriginal Family Lounge, Multi-faith Centre and retail opportunities
• Additional at grade and multi-storey car parking

Numbers will be finalised as planning and design progresses

Project status

Building a hospital involves three key phases - planning, design and delivery.

The concept design for the new Albury Wodonga Regional Hospital project has been released, providing a first look at the state-of-the-art health facilities at the Albury Campus.

The concept design shows the size and scale of the new hospital, as well as the relationships between the clinical functions, services, buildings and other facilities to be delivered as part of the project.

The concept design builds on master planning in 2023.

The master plan provided a comprehensive framework for the hospital redevelopment, which included construction of a new purpose-built, multi-storey Clinical Services Building and upgrades to existing facilities to support the expansion of the hospital.