Orange Hospital Project

The new Orange Hospital provides an Integrated Cancer Centre, Emergency Department as well as Tertiary Mental Health, Radiotherapy Unit and Oral Health Unit.

PPPs such as Orange provide much needed critical infrastructure. This project replaced the old base hospital that had opened in 1971 in the centre of Orange. However, Government concluded that old cottage hospitals and volunteer regional hospitals could no longer adapt to the extreme changes required of them to operate in a modern medical environment and further development on the original site was impractical and a new site on the nearby Bloomfield Campus was selected for this project. The new Orange Hospital opened in 2011 and was co-located with the redeveloped Bloomfield psychiatric hospital providing a variety of mental health support and specialist treatment programs. Bloomfield Campus provides inpatient psychiatric facilities and is the region's referral centre for mental health patients, and also accepts patients from other areas of the state.

This investment has had a major impact on the quality of tertiary health services delivered to Regional Australia. The many specialist services provide care for patients across the region, servicing a population of over 270,000, spread across a vast geographical distance of approximately 250,000 square kilometres. The inpatient care provided in Orange would previously have required transfer to a Sydney hospital with associated costs and time delay of interhospital transfers.