Caboolture Hospital Expansion

As part of its Building Better Hospitals program, the Queensland Government is investing $400 million into expanding Caboolture Hospital, providing additional capacity of 130 beds. This includes $352.9 million to build a new five-storey clinical services building, $46.6 million to build a new multi-storey carpark, and a refurbishment program. 

The new clinical services building will include:

• a new and expanded Emergency Department
• 48 beds in new Medical Wards
• a 20-bed Rehabilitation Unit
• a 14-bed Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit
• a 10-bed Intensive Care Unit
• a 10-bed Palliative Care Unit
• an eight-bed Cardiac Care Unit and four-bed Chest Pain Assessment Unit
• six Operating Theatres (including two new theatres) and four Stage One Recovery Spaces, and
• an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Unit.

The refurbishment program will include upgrades to the following areas:

• special care nursery
• medical day unit
• morgue
• medical records facility, pharmacy, and pathology, and
• main entry, café and visitor lounge.

These works comprise stage two of the hospital's redevelopment, with stage one works, including a Mental Health Short Stay Unit, commencing in November 2019.