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Technical Site Visits

Technical Site Visit - Flinders Medical Centre & Noarlunga Health Services

When: 1.30pm – 4.30pm, Wednesday 19 October
Where: Please gather in the Lobby at the Hilton Adelaide ready to depart by coach  transfer at 1.30pm

For delegates who have already nominated that they will be attending these tours, Flinders Medical Centre is a 566-bed specialist referral public teaching hospital co-located with the Flinders University School of Medicine and the privately owned Flinders Private Hospital.

The hospital is the major referral centre for acute care and emergency services in the southern region of Adelaide. It is one of two major trauma centres in South Australia, providing an around the clock emergency retrieval service to bring people to hospital by road or helicopter. Flinders also provides a number of statewide services including the SA Liver Transplant Service and the SA Eye Bank. It provides cardiac surgery services to the South East and to the Northern Territory.

Since 2007 FMC has been undertaking a $163 million major facility and infrastructure upgrade including:

• Redevelopment and expansion of the Operating Theatre Suite (including Recovery)
• Establishment of a Day of Surgery Admission Unit
• Provision of dedicated Day Surgery facilities
• Expansion and upgrade of Central Sterile Supply Department
• Expansion and upgrade of the Emergency Department including Extended Emergency Care Unit
• Expansion and relocation of the Acute Assessment Unit
• Expansion of the Intensive Critical Care Unit
• Replacement and enhancement of air conditioning plant, electrical capacity, hydraulic systems and life safety systems

Implications for redeveloping the highest clinical service areas included displacement of the following key services

• Labour and Delivery Suite
• Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
• Ward 4G
• Medical Outpatient Clinics from Level 6.

To allow the highest clinical service areas on Level 3 to expand into space vacated by the above displaced services, a new three-level building at the southern end of the existing FMC building was constructed.  The new South Wing building is linked to the existing building and now accommodates the displaced Medicine Outpatient Clinics on Level 2, the Labour and Delivery Suite on Level 3 and Ward services on Level 4.  The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit was rebuilt in an existing Ward area on Level 6.

The New South Wing is the first health facility to achieve a five-star Green Star As Built rating from the Green Building Council of Australia. 

Building is currently underway on the $28 million Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer (FCIC), incorporating the LIVESTRONG Cancer Research Centre. The five level construction includes a Helipad on the main roof area.