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Northern Hospital’s new mental health facility nears completion with delivery of final offsite constructed module.
The Northern Hospital in Epping is on track to have its 30-bed mental health facility completed later this year, following the arrival of its final offsite constructed module.
The building is being constructed on top of a two-storey carpark, and involves 237 modules delivered in two stages. The first stage involved 127 modules and started onsite in mid-February this year. The second stage uses 110 modules and was completed in just five weeks.
Watch it being installed here:
The 30-bed mental health facility is part of the Victorian Government’s Mental Health Beds Expansion Program. The facility will provide more than 10,900 days of care, enabling 655 more Victorians to access vital mental health services, every year.
The Victorian Government is investing $492 million towards the delivery of 144 new acute public mental health beds across Victoria.
The new beds include 120 hospital-based beds and 24 home-based beds. They will be delivered across four Victorian health services to address increased demand on our system.
Once complete, the new hospital-based beds will provide more than 43,000 days of care.
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