World Class Health Facility in Regional Victoria
02 November 2018
NDY:
In the past, residents of regional
Victoria
had to travel to
Melbourne to seek specialist care and world class
facilities. This has been addressed with the
New Bendigo Hospital
development. This hospital brings many of those facilities into the
Greater Bendigo area, along with specialised capabilities that address
the particular health concerns of people in the region.
The goal of the
facility isn’t just to provide a contemporary health
space, but to create a health centre that blends art, indigenous
culture, lush gardens and a deluge of natural light to provide the
people of Regional
Victoria with a
hospital that reflects the community culture, as
well as their health needs.
A SAFE, SUSTAINABLE AND CONNECTED HOSPITAL
Described as a breathtaking
building, the team behind the Victoria’s largest regional hospital have
combined these ethereal elements with the latest in
ICT and
Building
Information Modelling (BIM) to create a healthcare facility that
delivers healing, connectivity and tranquillity in equal measure.
“We set out with an ambitious plan to build Australia’s first
world-class Regional Hospital that needed to be self-sufficient in terms
of meeting the community’s needs and the requirements of the broader
region. It also had to be one of the safest and greenest hospitals in
the country. We wanted a hospital that ultimately provided patients and
staff with a tranquil environment, one where we separated the busy
everyday activity from the inpatient and care facilities within the
internal environment,” says the Acting CEO of Bendigo Health, Peter
Faulkner.
At a cost of $630 million, the hospital is a fusion of colour, texture,
technology, cutting-edge healthcare and patient-centred wellness.
The Bendigo Health Services combined with the new Bendigo Hospital now
provide patient health care for approximately 26% of the geographic
landmass of the state. This investment has been a significant
undertaking to future-proof quality health care delivery.
With new technologies and new treatments available for Bendigo and north
west community, patients now can access better healthcare without the
arduous travel to the Melbourne metropolitan area. With 372 beds
available, the hospital is approximately 60% larger than the previous
hospital and services over 25% of the geographic landmass of Victoria.
COMPLEX ENGINEERING FOR GREATER WELLBEING
“The new Bendigo Hospital, like
any major health project, is a complex piece of engineering design full
of complex systems and technologies – NDY is incredibly proud of the
design work we’ve done for the project, but over and above this, we are
really proud of the meaningful difference the project will make to the
people of Bendigo – the staff, businesses and patients – as well as the
making positive contribution to the health and wellbeing of the local
community, said Stuart Fowler, NDY’s CEO.
By focusing on patient-centric solutions, the design for integrating
state-of-the-art technology had to ensure the hospital would be prepared
to cope with future changes such as high transfer data requirements and
the ability to utilise mobile devices, allowing care teams, clinicians
as well as patients the mobility to carry out necessary day-to-day
activities.
FUTURE-PROOFED, CONTEMPORARY DESIGN
Bendigo Health Executive Director,
Information Services & CIO, Bruce Winzar also emphasised the importance
of infrastructure design decisions throughout the hospital, such as the
clever use of cables and black boxes securing data with a very high
reliability factor of 99.99%.
Every design decision considered the entire human lifecycle. In
hospitals, most of the patient activity in a hospital occurs bedside. By
integrating the electronic medical records with the existing Legacy
systems, using the latest unified communications systems and IP network
and converging current healthcare systems, the new
technology gave staff and patients the ability to interact in a live
environment, ultimately providing greatly improved health and
well-being outcomes.
CLEVER AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS
The new Bendigo Hospital also
features clever building planning such as installing key storerooms,
portering and warehouses all located centrally – the clinical staff can
simply log a job which is immediately acted upon. Any food, materials,
linen and waste are transported without any manual handling, relying
instead upon electronic trolley to convoy items from back of house
directly to patient bedside.
Director, Health Services at NDY, Keith Davis discussed the use of BIM
(building information modelling) as the framework to provide the
intelligence on ensuring design integrity, design efficiency and an
upside for longer term facilities management.
Creating one of the most energy efficient hospitals nationally, the team
at NDY simply focused on the emotional needs of people. The team created
a space that made a profound difference to the physical environment
–from the use of flowing natural daylight and reduced noise areas to
innovative stairs and bridges designed as artistic features.
Michele Morrison, CEO of Exemplar Health describes the hospital as a
beautiful building, a tranquil healing space with exceptional interior
design incorporating the theme of surrounding valley into various
departments – a building the community truly loves.
The new hospital services a quarter of Victoria’s land mass and will
assist Bendigo Health to provide the health services expected by the
community in the 21st century. The cutting-edge facility is also
attracting and retaining the best staff, training the future health
workforce for the region, and is supporting other health services as
part of an effective regional health system.
KEY COLLABORATIVE TEAM
The Exemplar Health consortium consisted of:
NDY SERVICES
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Electrical
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Fire Protection
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ICT Consulting
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Mechanical
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NDYLIGHT
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Security
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Sustainability
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Vertical Transportation
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