Blacktown Hospital

Blacktown Hospital is an acute care hospital in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. Together with Mount Druitt Hospital and associated community health centres,^[1] it forms Blacktown-Mt Druitt Health, which is a unit within the Sydney West Area Health Service (SWAHS).^[2]

Blacktown hospital has approximately 400 beds, It provides a wide range of health services;^[3]

Ante-Natal/Gynaecology Unit;

Delivery Suite;

Post-Natal;

Special Care Nursery;

Acute Medical;

Coronary Care and Coronary Stepdown Unit;

Diabetes Center;

Acute Rehabilitation;

Acute Stroke Unit;

Pre-Admission Clinic;

Day Procedure Unit;

Orthopaedic;

Surgical;

Surgical/Medical Short Stay Unit;

Intensive Care Unit;

High Dependency

Oncology Services;

Mental Health;

Regional Dialysis Centre;

Community Health Services including Dental.

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-Mount Druitt Clinical School (commenced in October 2007) and University of Sydney's Western Clinical School.

The Hospital complex also includes Bungarribee House, a psychiatric unit that, along with Cumberland Hospital provides mental health services to western Sydney.

Recent Events

Following a stabbing of a nurse at the hospital in July 2011 NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner called for a review of hospital security.^[4] The state government has announced full-time security.^[5]

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