Blacktown Hospital

Blacktown Hospital
Blacktown-Mt Druitt Health Sydney West Area Health Service
Geography
Location	Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates	33.7756°S 150.9175°E / -33.7756; 150.9175
Organisation
Care system	Public Medicare (AU)
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	University of Sydney University of Western Sydney
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	400
History
Founded	April 1965
Links
Website	http://www.wsahs.nsw.gov.au/blacktown/index.htm
Lists	Hospitals in Australia

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 (SWAHS).

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

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. The state government has announced full-time security.