Mount Druitt Hospital is a 200 bed hospital in Sydney

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 suburb of Mount Druitt

Mount Druitt, New South Wales

Mount Druitt is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mount Druitt is located 43 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown, and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.There are numerous...

, New South Wales

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, Australia

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. It was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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 in October 1982, and was designed by Lawrence Nield in 1980.

The hospital consists of 120 beds for general medical and surgical use, 62 beds for paediatrics, five intensive care beds, and 13 day-only observation beds. The four operating theatres have eight beds for recovery.

Services

Aside from the wards of medical, surgical and pediatric patients, there are four operating theatres, an Accident and Emergency unit, and Medical Imaging

Radiology

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 facilities.

Blacktown-Mount Druitt Health

Both Mount Druitt Hospital and the near-by Blacktown Hospital

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, it forms Blacktown-Mt Druitt Health, which is a unit within the Sydney West Area Health Service .Blacktown hospital has approximately...

 operate under one administration, the Blacktown/Mount Druitt Health (BMDH). BMDH is a unit of the Sydney West Area Health Service.

Expansion

In 2006, the state

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 member Richard Amery

Richard Amery

Richard Sanderson Amery MP , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Mount Druitt for the Australian Labor Party since 1991...

 announced extensions totalling 10 beds spread throughout various units within the hospital. This included aged care rehabilitation and emergency care. A$2.1 million were allocated to the works however it was clearly identified that the extra facilities would not be opened until the required extra staff had been recruited.