Ramsay Health Care

28 May 2010

Ramsay Health Care (ASX RHC) has selected CarePlus™ , for the $229.8 million major expansion of Joondalup Health Campus

Ramsey Health Care (ASX RHC) has selected CarePlus™ , for the $229.8 million major expansion of Joondalup Health Campus, which will double the size of the existing facility. The expansion, will deliver healthcare to public patients under a long-standing and successful private public partnership between Ramsay Health Care and the WA Department of Health.

By 2013, the expanded Joondalup Health Campus will have a combined total of 536 beds (from the current 280) making it the third largest hospital in the Perth metropolitan area.

Stage 1 development will include:

• expanded emergency department including mental health assessment facilities
• four new operating theatres
• additional acute medical/surgical beds/places
• additional rehabilitation beds
• a cardiac catheter laboratory
• palliative care beds
• expanded renal dialysis
• expanded mental health unit
• child minding facility
• expanded chemotherapy unit and increase in oncology beds
• substantial improvement in clinical and non clinical support facilities
• a co-located private hospital