Angliss Hospital expansion

Eastern Health has welcomed the start of a fresh new chapter for Angliss Hospital, with works completed on a $20 million expansion of the hospital.

Funded by the State Government, the expansion includes a range of features, predominantly being the construction of a fourth level above the main hospital building to house critical care services.

Like all Eastern Health capital projects, the Angliss Hospital expansion was guided by Eastern Health’s Clinical Service Plan. This is a long term plan to ensure Eastern Health is able to meet the needs of the local community now and into the future.

The hospital expansion will provide a welcome boost to healthcare in Melbourne’s outer east.

It will play an important role in ensuring Eastern Health can continue to meet the needs of its community, now and into the future.

About the project

The construction includes a fourth level above the main hospital building that contains a 14-bed Intensive Care Unit. It also includes an expanded short stay unit for the hospital that provides care for patients who require a stay of up to 24 hours.

In addition, the paediatric emergency and short stay area has been refurbished, with an increased number of existing paediatric short stay beds available.

Overall, the hospital expansion has delivered an increase of 20 beds, along with significant improvements to the overall clinical environment.

By delivering this boost to the hospital’s critical care capacity, it will also reduce the number of patient transfers that occur from Angliss Hospital to Maroondah Hospital and Box Hill Hospital each year.

Eastern Health would like to thank the Department of Health and Human Services, consultants and architect Silver Thomas Hanley and builders Kane Constructions for their work and support of this project.

The hospital expansion was completed in October 2018.