Blacktown Hospital

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Blacktown Hospital
Blacktown-Mt Druitt Health
Sydney West Area Health Service
Location
Place Blacktown Sydney, NSW, (AU)
Organisation
Care System Public Medicare (AU)
Hospital Type Teaching
Affiliated University University of Sydney
Services
Emergency Dept. Yes
Beds 400
History
Founded Unknown
Links
Website Unknown
See also Hospitals in Australia

Blacktown Hospital is an acute care hospital in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. Together with Mount Druitt Hospital and associated community health centres, it forms Blacktown-Mt Druitt Health, which is a unit within the Sydney West Area Health Service.

Blacktown hospital has approximately 400 beds, and major clinical services cover medicine, surgery and obstetrics and gynaecology. It operates a 24-hour emergency department and a full Intensive Care Unit and CCU. It also has 24 hour medical imaging and pathology services on site.

The hospital is a teaching hospital of the University of Western Sydney's Blacktown-Mt Druitt Clinical School (commenced in October 2007) and University of Sydney's Western Clinical School.

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